Efrem Quotes & Sayings

I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!' — Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

If I would characterize my life, I would say that I was a very lucky actor who came into very lucky times, and got to Hollywood, and was put under contract by Warners in the very last days of the studio contract era, and was privileged to go through that time which is gone now. — Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

What is the art experience about? Really, I'm not interested in making Art at all. I never, ever, think about it. To say the word Art, it's almost like a curse on art. I do know that I want to try to get closer to myself. The older I get, the more indications I have about what it is to get closer to yourself. You try less hard. I just want to be. — Joel Meyerowitz

The silence lasted precisely five seconds, during which time eyes roamed other eyes, several throats were cleared, and no one moved in his chair. It was as if a decision were being reached without discussion: evasion was to be avoided. Congressman Efrem Walters, out of the hills of Tennessee by way of the Yale Law Review, was not to be dismissed with facile circumlocution that dealt with the esoterica of clandestine manipulations. Bullshit was out. — Robert Ludlum

It is the unco-ordinated activity of large-scale production that leads to those periodical crises and depressions which inflict such untold hardship upon the working masses of the people in industrialized countries. Small-scale production carried on by individuals who own the instruments with which they personally work is not subject to periodical slumps. Furthermore, the ownership of the means of small-scale, personal production has none of the disastrous political, economic and psychological consequences of large-scale production-loss of independence, enslavement to an employer, insecurity of the tenure of employment. — Aldous Huxley

I want you when it's crazy, when it's frightening, when it's impossible, because there's nothing within you that could hurt me half as much as not having you. — Claudia Gray

I love singing and that's kind of my new thing. — Margaret Cho

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen. — Jacky Ickx

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low. — Parris Glendening

Absolutely pay off your credit card debt, because a child can always get a loan to go to school, possibly a scholarship, a grant. — Suze Orman

Don Ho can sign autographs 3.4 times faster than Efrem Zimbalist Jr. — George Carlin

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves. — Kate Thompson

I'm so horny the crack of dawn isn't safe. — John Sandford

I do reinvent old hits of mine and sort of give them a new life. — Christina Aguilera

Life is all about Peace and LOVE
Giving it. Creating it. Living and Becoming it! — Timothy Pina

Ashoka's dilemma is the dilemma of civilization itself. As society developed and weaponry became more deadly, the empire, founded on and maintained by violence, would paradoxically become the most effective means of keeping the peace. — Karen Armstrong

Having been kept pretty strict in prep schools, I guess I couldn't cope with all the freedom at Yale. I had a wild, wonderful time, got abysmal grades and was bounced out in my freshman year. I then came back the following fall as a repeating freshman, lasted until April and got bounced out again - for the same reason. — Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all. — Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself. — Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

It was weird to me to go to school all week and experience racial diversity, but then on Sunday be faced with the option of having to choose between black and white. This didn't seem right to me. The whole world outside of the church seemed to be in full color, but the church looked like the black and white television of the old days. — Efrem Smith

People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading. — Stephen D. Krashen

I'm a conservative Republican. — Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

I tried to beat my reading addiction..........
Worst two minutes of my life! — Unknown

When you learn that you inspired someone, it's a huge honor. — Efrem Zimbalist Jr.