Kristel Quotes & Sayings

Generosity is never out of season. — Janet Morris

Nobody cared about Oma Kristel, about the way she had tried to keep herself attractive long after Youth had packed its bags and moved out of the aging tenement, about the way she always had some little gift for me, a sample bottle of unsuitable scent or a brooch made of sparkly paste. — Helen Grant

"Are We There Yet?" was the perfect title, because it's such a common saying. And having made the movie with the same name kinda locks it all in. — Ice Cube

This war that has taken so many sons has spared mine. This
age that has burned so many daughters has not burned mine.
I have not let it. — Tahmima Anam

Something in me refused to be defeated by heartbreak. Oliver wasn't coming back but I wasn't going to abandon me either. — Kristel Villar

The creams I use are not expensive. Nivea is just as good. Why waste a fortune? — Sylvia Kristel

William James said: "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. We need only in cold blood act as if the thing in question were real, and it will become infallibly real by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real. It will become so knit with habit and emotion that our interests in it will be those which characterize belief." He also said,"If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich. If you wish to be learned, you will be learned. If you wish to be good, you will be good - only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly. — Earl Nightingale

I make a big pot of pasta with vegetables, and I stretch it out for the week. — Sylvia Kristel

I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more. — Sylvia Kristel

When a new generation watches the films, people might mention that it has improved their lovemaking. I guess it's because it isn't threatening. It was very sweet and delicate. — Sylvia Kristel

Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life. — Brad Blanton

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty. — Sylvia Kristel

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation. — Patricia Hewitt

I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic! — Sylvia Kristel

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary. — Sylvia Kristel

No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it ... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself. — Sylvia Kristel

I was a silent actress: a body. I belonged to dreams - to those who can't be broken. — Sylvia Kristel

I close the doors and yank off my sweater, and she pulls off her shirt, and I say, "You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks." My — Jennifer Niven

I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize. — Sylvia Kristel

Political advocacy plastered next to Bible verses makes me anxious. I'm not a betting woman, but if I was I'd say that Jesus is not a member of either political party. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days. — Sylvia Kristel

People don't assume John Wayne shoots people and rides a horse on weekends. — Sylvia Kristel

She slid open the box, extracted a match, and struck it with a flourish. The flame flared up in the gloom of the unlit room, a tiny golden beacon. For a moment, Oma Kristel held it aloft, then the unthinkable happened. The match slipped out of her fingers and fell straight onto her pink mohair bosom. With a whooomph! like the sounds of a gas furnace firing up, the hairspray with which Oma Kristel had doused herself ignited, obliterating her in a column of flames. — Helen Grant

You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40. — Sylvia Kristel

The film was made in 1973. It was a golden time for people to experiment without risking, for example, AIDS. Today one has to be so much more careful and I don't think a character like that could exist now. — Sylvia Kristel

I learned so much from other actors and they definitely didn't treat me like some sex bomb or bimbo. I felt fully accepted in the regular movie world. I didn't feel categorised. — Sylvia Kristel

They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much — Stephen King

People say they miss the deceased. I missed my father and my mother when they were still fully alive. They travelled through my childhood in the same way they moved around the hotel: my mother industrious, hurried, hidden; my father drunk, flamboyant, alone. — Sylvia Kristel

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of. — Sylvia Kristel

I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion. — Sylvia Kristel

Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me! — Sylvia Kristel

Her company, Harry felt as she went off into the damp dark, was like that of the sea. Gentle, powerful. A commanding undertone telling him he could not do without it. — Kristel Thornell

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance. — Sylvia Kristel

I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me, nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce. — Sylvia Kristel

Men still assume I must be like the girl I played in 'Emmanuelle.' John Wayne was never accused of killing people during his free time, but I'm forever stuck with the image of 'Emmanuelle.' The truth is, I should have got an Oscar for that role because I'm nothing like that woman. — Sylvia Kristel

Knowing that salvation is God's work alone should also free us from fear. We no longer have to fear that everything is riding on what we say - that we might miss that "one" opportunity to speak into our children's lives and have their eternal salvation forfeited. — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece. — Sylvia Kristel

speaking, as your level of understanding rises, you will have the experience of deeper feelings such as gratitude, calmness, peace, hope, and joy. — Richard Carlson