Ronee Blakley Quotes & Sayings

When I was sixteen, I began to think outside the box of my small town. Not that the people in my small town are in a box - they're not! There's a brilliant college there, and I had brilliant teachers from that college. But in terms of a conservative upbringing, which I did have within my own family, I just began to question things and to think for myself. — Ronee Blakley

My daughter could do and be anything, without having to fight to get through the glass ceiling. Without having it be so extraordinary. If my daughter went to produce a soundtrack for a movie, there would be nothing extraordinary about a girl doing it. When I did it, it was highly unusual. — Ronee Blakley

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers. — Ronee Blakley

I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others and trying to be kind. It's something I still have to work on every day. — Ronee Blakley

You don't want to say somebody did a great job of acting. You want to say, "Where did he find that person? How did he get that factory worker to come out of the factory and be on camera?" You want to believe that person is real. — Ronee Blakley

If you just take one foot in front of the other without any protection, you may end up falling off the fence. — Ronee Blakley

To me, the housewife who puts her teacups unwashed in the sink because her husband won't wash them, is political. Every act is political: the things you do, as well as the things you omit doing; the things you refuse to do; the things you fail to do; the things you say, as well as the things you don't say. — Ronee Blakley

Feminism has nothing to do with partisanship. — Ronee Blakley

Things are changing. They need to change more. It should not be of any note that a woman does something, because women do everything. — Ronee Blakley

Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves. — Ronee Blakley

The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell. — Ronee Blakley

I do use reality because I want my work to feel real, I want it to feel heartfelt. I don't want to make it up and have it sound corny or unrelatable. — Ronee Blakley

I don't understand that about Taylor Swift, or about Joan [Mitchell] - how can she not say she's a feminist?! People don't understand what the word means. It simply means equal rights before the law. — Ronee Blakley

Every straight man I know is a feminist. They wouldn't be my friends if they weren't. — Ronee Blakley

As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will ever change it. — Ronee Blakley

Ten minutes before you go onstage and you begin singing that torchy blues song, you may just be drinking a glass of water and brushing your teeth and doing some deep breathing. — Ronee Blakley

Singers, musicians, and songwriters don't want to use the word "acting" because we want it to be more real than that - we want it to come from us: naturally, truly, really. — Ronee Blakley

I don't care how somebody gets their education, as long as they have one. — Ronee Blakley

I always sing them as though they are autobiographical, even if they're not, and most of my songs do come from something about me. — Ronee Blakley