My Own Quotes - Page 28

• I'm incredibly happy to be doing my own thing in New York.

  Sherry Stringfield

  New York

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• The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.

  Robert Crumb

  Looks, Stuff, Way

  "STYLE; An Eye for The Ladies". Interview with Lisa Eisner and Roman Alonso, www.nytimes.com. March 30, 2003.

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• I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some eras that I wish I'd lived in, like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away.

  Gemma Arterton

  Party, Wish, London

  "Gemma Arterton Falls for The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" by Jami Philbrick, movieweb.com. May 15, 2010.

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• I always design my own hats to complete my fashion thought....I like them slightly mad, like this huge black poppy. Right now I lift the bosom high on coats and dresses...I am using so many high curved belts.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Mad, Design

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• My entire concept of lifestyle is built on the foundation of my homes. There is no more important expression of this concept than that of my own personal living space.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Home, Expression, Space

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• I don't really follow market research. In the end, I respond to my own instincts.

  Anna Wintour

  Research, Instinct, Ends

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• I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

  Joy Bryant

  Children, Parent, Plight

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• I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun.

  Cat Cora

  Fun, Heart, Voice

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• I design some of my own clothes now.

  Kiernan Shipka

  Clothes, Design

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't know what to do. How do you tell an eight-year-old boy his mother's going to die? I tried. In my own stumbling way I tried to prepare Jim for it. Nowadays, he lives in a world we don't understand too well, the actor's world. We don't see too much of him. But he's a good boy, my Jim. A good boy, and I'm very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He's not easy to understand. But he's all man, and he'll make his mark. Mind you, my boy will make his mark.

  James Dean

  Mother, Boys, Men

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• I want to keep developing. I want to become relaxed in my own work and go deeper. Just growing and studying and trying new things and hopefully having professional access to work that's good and interesting. I don't want to be on the treadmill of artificiality.

  Gale Harold

  Interesting, Trying, Growing

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• I am totally, completely, 100% in love with fashion. I would wear Chanel gowns to the grocery store if I could. I'm a huge fan of Chanel and Versace, and I actually have always dreamed of designing my own line one day.

  Ksenia Solo

  Fashion, Design, One Day

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• I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Thinking, Guy, Mind

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• I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

  Zoey Deutch

  Smart, Writing, Stories

  "Thomas Mann and Zoey Deutch Talk BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, Auditioning without Seeing the Script, Working with Emma Thopmson, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 12, 2013.

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• I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

  Walton Goggins

  Believe, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

  Walton Goggins

  Three, Kind, Villain

  "The Justified star on how cable TV made bad guys better, and why Robert Duvall scared the shit out of him as a kid". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I am very hands on doing my own work, all my own stunt work.

  Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

  Hands

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• With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Character, I Can

  "Ashley Tisdale Talks SONS OF ANARCHY, How She Got Cast, the Physicality of the Role, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2012.

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• All I can go on is my own value system.

  Billy Corgan

  Goes On, Value Systems, I Can

  "Interview: Billy Corgan and the fool’s journey (pt. 2)". Interview with Brandon Kim, www.ifc.com.

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• I don't want to just be an athlete. I kind of obsess on that sometimes. I don't want my son to be reading, oh, 'disappointment, just a scorer, selfish, didn't win enough, never quite the best' -- whatever. I want to be bigger than that. I want to shape my own destiny instead of just having him read about whatever on the back page.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Disappointment, Selfish, Reading

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• Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I’ve stayed alive.

  George Carlin

  Numbers, Records, Alive

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• I don't like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self.

  Nicole Kidman

  Self, Wind

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Oct 16, 2016

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• But the first thing that we have to do is to say, “I walk towards the tunnel, and I’m on my own, and I’m not afraid. And I have no regrets.

  Jonathan Bowden

  Regret, Tunnels, Firsts

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• I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Rich, Poor

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• This is my dream, It is my own dream, I dreamt it. I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.

  Ogden Nash

  Love, Romantic, Dream

  Ogden Nash, “My Dream”

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