37 quotes found
Actress · American · 1949
American actress (born 1949)
“I live simply. I don't buy a lot of fashion!”
“I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.”
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
“I don't really. In our business, you're not kicked out necessarily …”
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”
“There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.”
“The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.”
“I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.”
“I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.”
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.”
“I think you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what you...”
“The quote above about patience is NOT MERYL STREEP's-- this quote is actually from the pen of Portuguese self-help author/life coach Jos Micard Teixeira. PLEASE REMOVE IT!!!!!”
“I no longer have patience for certain things, not because Ive become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurt...”
“The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.”
“Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of ...”
“Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.”
“It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.”
“I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.”
“I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.”
“Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.”
“I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hur...”
“I am so daunted by [reputation] that I never think about it. It is a thing bigger than I am capable of perceiving. Other people are more aware and concerned with it than I could ever allow myself t...”