Daniela Ruah Daniela Quotes & Sayings

When you go to an audition, don't hang on to it because no matter how well you feel it went or how badly, you just never know what the outcome is going to be. — Daniela Ruah

I do have a huge fascination for science, and I love to hear what my dad has to say. He used to take me into minor surgeries when I was a kid and let me watch, so I definitely have a passion for it, but it's not as big a passion as I have for acting and creating characters. — Daniela Ruah

I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me. — Aaron Johnson

A family is created throughout the process, and it's always difficult when you lose someone. — Daniela Ruah

No actor in the world started off at the top. — Daniela Ruah

The producers like to keep people guessing and keep them on the edge of their seats. — Daniela Ruah

Look around you. The earth wouldn't exist without the sun. Plants would die without rain. We're all meant to lean on something. Or someone. — Katie Kacvinsky

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved. — Theophile Gautier

When he pulled out his gun weighted with a meaning I couldn't quite comprehend, placing it silently in my hand, I understood that my words didn't matter to a man intent on speaking the language of the unforgiven. — Rachel Thompson

That's the beauty of the acting world. You can play so many different characters who know and do so many things that you have no idea about as yourself. So I'm a big fan of workshops and classes and learning new things because you can always apply it. It's your little supply bag of creativity. Keep filling it up. — Daniela Ruah

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite. — Daniela Ruah

We have named all the stars and all the planet, even though they might already have had names of their own. What a nerve! — Stanislaw Lem

I know a lot of procedurals have huge viewership, yet they're never nominated for awards. — Daniela Ruah

Her empathy was like a double-edged razor that allowed her to experience the nethermost of human joys and sorrows. The best and worst of emotions cut her to the bone. The pain of her heart was like a tortuous phantom that lived outside her body. She could feel its presence. It clung to her breasts like a nursing infant. Pressure on her chest. Stealing her breath. I don't want to hurt like this, she thought. Then she remembered the alternative. She pictured life without feeling and imagined the sociopath existence. It is better to feel, she said. — C.J. Anderson

No one wants perfection. I want a confident, smart guy, obviously, but what's hot is a guy who doesn't have all the answers. We gals like a guy we can help because, ultimately, we like being needed. — Daniela Ruah

There's this accent that I think everybody has when they grow up going to an international school. It's a mix of not quite English, not quite American. When I moved to L.A., it just went completely American. — Daniela Ruah

I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition. — Daniela Ruah

One cannot have a right to life without the right to defend it with deadly force. — Bruce Montague

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles. — Daniela Ruah

Yes, I know.
Death sits with his key in my lock.
Not one day is taken for granted.
Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock. — Anne Sexton

In my day, girls jumped when a Wise One said jump, and continued jumping until they were told to stop. As I am still alive, it is still my day. Need I make myself clearer? - Sorilea — Robert Jordan

It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did. — Madeleine Stowe

The very essence of the opiate high was expressed by a twenty-seven-year-old sex-trade worker. She had HIV and has since died. "The first time I did heroin," she said to me, "it felt like a warm, soft hug." In that phrase she told her life story and summed up the psychological and chemical cravings of all substance-dependent addicts. — Gabor Mate

I'm starting my own family, and there is no other feeling like it. — Daniela Ruah

I was born here in the States. I moved to Portugal when I was five. And then my parents put me in an English school. — Daniela Ruah

It's a birthmark called nevus of Ota. It covers the whole white of my eye and darkens it. The square of the eye, the white part, is completely dark on my right eye, not just the iris. — Daniela Ruah

Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface. — Steven Pinker

Having a gun in your hand is very empowering. — Daniela Ruah

Most people know that 30 to 40 percent of the world's Jews were killed during World War II, but not that 80 to 90 percent of the Orthodox community perished, among them many who had kept alive an ancient tradition of mysticism and meditation reaching back to the Old Testament world of the prophets. — Diane Ackerman

A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason. — Daniela Ruah

There's no better training than working on a soap opera because of the amount of hours, the amount of pages you do a day are unbelievable. It's the best training I had in terms of discipline. — Daniela Ruah

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. — Charles Dickens

I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an 'I hate skinny' mentality. — Daniela Ruah

I started my career in Portugal, and the longest I've ever played a character was for about a year, which is how long our TV shows last. — Daniela Ruah