Her Quotes

Don't ever take a shower with a woman, because you'll probably end up proposing to her.

I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

If PJ Harvey ever came to town I'd definitely go try to go see her.

The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.

You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

My first fight. I fought a girl that was a little bit heavier, a little bit more experienced and I was petrified because I didn't know what I was getting myself into. And I did really well against her and nobody believed it was my first fight.

People who have no idea it's me when they first see me playing something, and later they realize, 'That's her from whatever it is,' it's a great compliment that they can forget.

Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.

As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best customer that England ever had, and our demands upon her grow most steadily and regularly under protection.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.

I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a sister.

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.

I was going to be a writer. One person believed I could do it: my mom. Having her faith in me was like carrying around the Hammer of Thor.

I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.

If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her.

Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex appeal is not one of her qualities.

Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

California club pop chirper Dev's debut is as stark as it is sweet. This is owed partly to the casually giddy lightness of her talk-singing - familiar from her slizzered 2010 cameo on Far East Movement's smash 'Like a G6,' and around-the way-girl frisky like 1980s Latin freestyle.

When Luke and Laura dated in 'General Hospital' when I was a kid, I was very excited. And that was a rather pathetic relationship if you break it down because let's face it: he raped her... and then they got married. There's all kinds of things that TV does to relationships.

I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I'd bring her flowers and candy.

Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.

When cellphones came out, my girlfriend refused to get one for five years, because she thought it would turn her into somebody who couldn't connect with other people - and, of course, she got a cellphone.

My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste.

When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.

And I'm so excited to remind people and even gain new fans who find out about Dharma - a new generation who could find out about Dharma and enjoy her and all the characters on the show.

I loved that about her because I knew it would open the door for a lot of comedy, because I knew that the conflict would come, because not many people live like the way she does.

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.

Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.

And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.

After 'Somewhere' came out, people started to recognize me more. Whenever I was walking down the street, they'd be like, 'Oh, wow - are you Elle Fanning?' Before 'Somewhere,' they asked me if I was Dakota Fanning, because we looked alike, and I'd say, 'No, I'm her younger sister.'

The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!

Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.

My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York.

Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four.

Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.

I absolutely love Nicole Scherzinger. She's worked really hard to get to where she is and really knows her stuff.

Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.

Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her.

I really miss Diana. I loved her so much.