Melanie Quotes

It's not about my career now. It's just about finding great work and having a good time.

The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.

And still as an adult like I do as well, you know what I mean like I literally just cried in the first interview that I had today. Like, I'm just a very emotional human.

I love directing my music videos and writing video treatments, and I think it's all just because I love the visual aspect of it as well.

On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn't allowed [singing my own original music], because it's not that type of show. I think it's really cool that I get to do my own thing now.

I love Nicoletta Ceccoli , and I love Tim Burton movies. So those are like my biggest inspirations I think.

I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.

My brother is not a girl, he is a gentleman.

My answers have been prayered.

That's why I'm a success, it's because I don't middle in other people's lives.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

France is an old country that needs to wake up.

It is impossible to park a Ferrari (healthy new belief systems) in a space that is taken up by an old wreck (negative old belief systems).

You have always been deciding the truth of your life. It is how you decide to feel about it. There is no need to try to work out what something means. You decide what it means.

I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn't try to direct. And since I made my movie I'm just like, 'It's great.

I swear in real life-probably too much-though I don't swear in front of my gran. We adapt to every situation.

No one can take away the days that we conquered.

I see things beyond what other people see. I am always looking for hidden corners and closets of a life that I feel aren't explored either by the person who lived it or the people writing about it.

Whether I was dancing around the house with headphones on or on stage with the Spice Girls... I learned firsthand that dancing was the key to shedding off the pounds and keeping them off.

I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift.

I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.

I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I'm shoe crazy.

I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.

If I could be working every day, I would be.

I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That's a very rare emotion to evoke out of me.

I also made a lot of really great friends on that show [the Voice], so that's one of the most important things that I've taken out of that experience.

It's like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.

Cry Baby is a character so I think that the next album is going to be about a specific thing in her life or another place in her world. It's going to be a bit deeper into a bigger picture.

I'm glad I got to introduce myself to America by doing a Britney [Spears] song, haha!

There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.

I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.

If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.

Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden me with that. It had never been fair.

With great influence comes great responsibility.

I don't think I've played a lot of crazy people. If ever I had a choice between two movies, I'd try to do whatever was the opposite of what I did last time.

I feel so lucky to have done so many things that I love in the past few years so I'm just going to keep trying to do them.

I think there's so many little specific things in the script [of "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"]. And the script was also structured so beautifully that I didn't want to mess with it.

I always like [while filming] to have a sense of what led this person to this point.

For "The Intervention" I came up with a back-story and Clea [Duvall] was like, "No." And I was like, "I don't care."

I talked with [ Blair Macon] a lot. I always like to come up with it - sometimes the filmmaker is not into it at all.

It's good to feel tired at the end of the day. It's not often as an actor that you're like, "Oof. Ow. I feel like I've been out working."

I want to go and have a real experience and it's just lovely to sit and watch a movie and just be really transported by a story and care about the characters. That's always what I'm looking for.

Sometimes you just feel so fortunate to be in the company that you're in and you just want to soak it all up.

I'm pretty active, so I wasn't really worried [about filming "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ]. But there was a day when I was like, "God, I've been rowing for two hours."

I feel like I'm always put with someone who's like, "Come on! Please be happy!".