Helandou Quotes & Sayings

I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin. — James Gandolfini

A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them, and they're rather miserable most of the time. — Stephen Fry

My mother sighed, making me feel that I was placing an intolerable burden on her, and yet making me resent having to feel this weight. She looked tired, as she often did these days. Her tiredness bored me, made me want to attack her for it. — Margaret Laurence

The day my mother gave us the keys, she also made me and Greta sign a form so that the bank knew our signatures. To get in we had to show our key and sign something so they would know it was really us. I was worried that my signature wouldn't look the same. I wasn't sure when that thing would happen that made it so you always signed your name exactly the same, but it hadn't happened to me yet. So far I'd only had to sign something three times. Once for a code of conduct for the eighth grade field trip to Philadelphia, once for a pact I made with Beans and Frances Wykoski in fifth grade that we'd never have boyfriends until high school. (Of the three of us, I'm the only one who kept that pact.) — Carol Rifka Brunt

In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too. — Elvis Costello

Was this the second body I'd found in the closet, or the third? I wondered why I even opened closet doors any more. — Charlaine Harris

If upper management found out, they'd send you off to the Probing Department. — Lee Davidson

Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? ... The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. — Leo Rosten

The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren. — Doug Larson

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had. — Bellamy Young

The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell. — Edvard Munch

I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being. — Laz Alonso

I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity and inequality, even passion and opportunity. — Frank Gehry