Sarah Quotes

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.

I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.

The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.

You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.

All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.

We would love to see walking groups more widely recommended by physicians, health trainers and nurses.

I see no reason not to write whatever comes to me.

As with any music that one feels quite close to, I'm very critical, too. I care a lot. I pay a lot of attention.

My friend worked at a record store in Burlington and I really liked R.E.M. and a lot of music, but I didn't go to see much. I was 16, so I wasn't in bars unless I knew the band and could get in.

Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.

Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity.

Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.

I love Neutrogena's Makeup Remover Cleansing Wipes. They get all my makeup off and are really moisturizing.

You don't bite the women of other males.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

I spent more time playing a person I was not than the person I am.

We're all separate and individual people.

I think people can find a breath and listen sometimes.

Often I'll go to the market, and women will say to me: "Let me see your shoes." And then I show them I'm wearing flip-flops.

I strangely feel better before I go through hair and makeup. Maybe that's just because I feel like me.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary.

I feel conflicted about my relationship with social media.

I don't feel that my life, my professional life, is married to a reliance upon Instagram.

The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work.

I never was Carrie Bradshaw, but imagine how great it was to be told, "You are obligated to kiss all these men, to dress like that, and to carry on like that!" They were great guys, too.

What you think you know versus what you actually learn.

When I feel hurt, I fully experience my emotions (and don't make them anyone else's problem!). Then I question my thoughts, examining my belief system and meeting the reality of life.

I feel able to comfort myself emotionally, and this keeps my heart open.

It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after me.

You plan to be a challenge, do you?" Juliana smiled angelically. "I agreed to remain, my lord. Not to remain silent.

He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.

And as the bullet ripped through his flesh, Ralston was consumed by a single thought: I never told her that I loved her.

First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And second, you'd be surprised what gentlemen do...and what ladies enjoy." ~Lord Bourne

Someone once said that two halves make a whole. And when two halves move in together, it makes a whole lot of stuff.

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it.

I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time.

Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I'm not kidding. I watch him on BBC America every week. He's so fast.

Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels?

People always assume that I'm some sort of party girl, and that's such a misconception because I like staying home.

When we were young people, all we ever wanted was to be good working actors. We didn't think of fame or money because, honestly, money was never part of the dream.

Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!

I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.

I love Jennifer Hudson! She is so lovely on screen. She is so buoyant and youthful off screen as much as on.

So what's your second suggestion?" "Tread lightly." "That's it? That's the best advice you can give me?" "All right, tread very lightly.