Hannigan Quotes & Sayings

I believe good plans are the best way to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and possibly, save the world. I spend a lot of my time making them. — Katherine Hannigan

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice. — Katherine Hannigan

Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency — P.S. Martinez

I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster. — Alyson Hannigan

I know quickly whether a guy is boyfriend material. If I can have a good time doing absolutely nothing with him, then that's boyfriend material for me. Like if we're able to have fun at a gas station. I've had some really good times at gas stations. — Alyson Hannigan

I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things. — Alyson Hannigan

Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie', is as funny as it gets. — Katherine Parkinson

It will be alright. — Katherine Hannigan

You know you're officially an adult when you finally understand WHY Miss Hannigan was drinking bath water. — Christy Hall

Apologizing is like spring cleaning. — Katherine Hannigan

I've always been a singer, but I don't know if I was always a natural performer. — Lisa Hannigan

I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point. — Amber Benson

All of a sudden I felt filled up again, so that my heart might come up my throat. And I was thinking how that can come over you, out of nowhere, and if it wasn't such a fine feeling, it might almost be frightening. Like there's more love and good thoughts and powerful things inside of you than one body can hold. — Katherine Hannigan

And all the best words together couldn't hold the happiness. — Katherine Hannigan

I can't stand when people use drugs as an escape. It's like, everybody suffers. Deal with your issues, you'll feel so much better. — Alyson Hannigan

I don't like to know too much because I'm a terrible liar. — Alyson Hannigan

There is never enough time for fun. — Katherine Hannigan

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it. — Katherine Hannigan

It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music. — Lisa Hannigan

I wouldn't want to play Miss Hannigan. I'm not a villain. She's mean to little children! I can't do that. That would disrupt my brand. — Kathleen Hanna

Nerds are far more interesting human in later life. — Alyson Hannigan

You need to suffer to be interesting. — Alyson Hannigan

I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials. — Alyson Hannigan

When she'd read, her voice wrapped around my head and my heart, and it softened and lightened everything up. It put a pain in my hear that felt good. — Katherine Hannigan

There's more than one way to tell each other things, and there's more than one way to listen, too. — Katherine Hannigan

I was either still dreaming or I had entered an alternate reality where I was a flippin' insane person. I doubted I had entered an alternate reality and a quick slap to my own face proved I wasn't still dreaming. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency — P.S. Martinez

There's a very wild side to me, but it's calming down. — Alyson Hannigan

It thought about the magic that happens when you tell a story right, and everybody who hears it not only loves the story, but they love you a little bit, too, for telling it so well. Like I love Ms. Washington, in spite of myself, the first time I heard her. When you hear somebody read a story well, you can't help but think there's some good inside them, even if you don't know them. — Katherine Hannigan

Stephen Colbert has such a loyal following; I don't know if it's the same with Jay Leno; he really inspires love in people, and there can be a lucky ricochet of that for some people. — Lisa Hannigan

My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage. — Alyson Hannigan

There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks. — Alyson Hannigan

If I had all the money in the world, I don't think I'd want to be in the studio for longer. — Lisa Hannigan

Don't ever spend more than three weeks apart. Two and a half weeks, maybe three, was the longest we ever did. — Alyson Hannigan

Oh, I'm going to miss everything. It's been the most amazing and significant job of my life obviously and I'll always have it near and dear to my heart. I'm so grateful and appreciative that I worked with the best crew and the best writers and producers and cast and I love them all. — Alyson Hannigan

I want to stay true to who I am by trying to be in the moment. — Alyson Hannigan

I know it's hard to not do well at something, and I know it's hard to need help. — Katherine Hannigan

Then I looked right at Mama, for the first time in what seemed like forever, and she wasn't looking at me, but into me. She was pulling me to her with her eyes, like she used to do. All of a sudden I could see the light that was Mama's shining out of her eyes. I couldn't help smiling at it.
'Be careful,' my heart warned me.
But I was having a hard time remembering that there as anything to be careful about. Because if I just looked at Mama's eyes ... I could tell that the part of her I thought had gone away forever was still there and glowing, only from deep down inside her. — Katherine Hannigan

This is what I always wanted to do in my entire life, so I am not going to sit here and complain that it is so terrible to be in successful movies, because it becomes a trilogy! — Alyson Hannigan

It wasn't till they were on the bridge that Delly asked RB, "So, Ferris Boyd's your favorite?" She didn't mind, mostly.
RB answered so fast, though, she knew he wasn't fibbing. "She's my favorite friend," he told her. "You're my favorite everything. — Katherine Hannigan

You can have all this mismatched Tupperware and lids, but you can never get them sealed quite right. That one edge always keeps popping up. It's supposed to fit, but it rarely does. You've gotta try a few lids before you find the one that actually snaps. — Alyson Hannigan

We don't own the earth. We are the earth's caretakers ... we take care of it and all the things on it. And when we're done with it, it should be left better than we found it. — Katherine Hannigan

I don't know what to do with myself when it's sunny! — Lisa Hannigan

Sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness ... — Katherine Hannigan

In the morning I'm like a snake in the spring: I need to lie out on a warm rock and let the sun sink into me before I can start wiggling around and get on with the day. — Katherine Hannigan

I was saying the right things, but not the really true things. — Katherine Hannigan

My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started. — Alyson Hannigan

How do you run and play when you feel like there are bricks of the heaviest sadness weighing down every part of your body? How do you laugh and talk when there are no laughs left inside of you? — Katherine Hannigan

My first TV crush was Elroy Jetson, because he was so cute. And I wanted to play with Astro on his automatic dog-walker thing. — Alyson Hannigan

In the book, hummin bins made castles, and towers up to the sky. They tamed the animals and took care of them. And hummin bins helped each other. They were always good.
"When I was done, Ma asked, 'Delly, what are hummin bins?' 'They're like people, but better,' I said. Then I told her, 'When I grow up, I'm going to live with the hummin bins,' and she smiled.
"But Galveston grabbed the book, 'Let me see that,' she said, and started laughing. 'This says human beings. There's no such things as hummin bins.'
"'Ma, is it true?' I asked, and she nodded. 'How come you didn't tell me?' I cried.
"'I liked the hummin bins better, too,' she said." ...
"RB's right, Ferris Boyd. You are a hummin bin." Her eyeballs were wet, like they were swimming.
It was quiet, then, till RB's soft cloud voice said, "You're a hummin bin, too, Delly. — Katherine Hannigan

When your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans. — Katherine Hannigan

Understand what part they played. Symmetry. And because I understood that, I understood that a single painting or composition or poem might change the future. Where its influence might end - if it ever did - was a mystery. I had spent lifetimes watching the effects of my choices, and so I knew that Joseph Hannigan was meant to be the very best of them. The world had put him into my hands; I could only guess at its design. But I knew he — Megan Chance

Don't ever put a guy in front of your friends. Friends are most important. And don't make a guy more important than yourself. — Alyson Hannigan

Sometimes life can be unexpected. Sometimes things surprise you and all you can do is roll with the punches or let them beat you to a bloody pulp. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency — P.S. Martinez

I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth like a stone from the bottom of the brook, and it stilled me. A whole other world is inside there, I thought to myself, and that's where I want to be. — Katherine Hannigan

If a child waited to speak until all the grown-ups settled down and gave her some room to say her piece, the most important things would never get said. — Katherine Hannigan