Lahti Christine Quotes & Sayings

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival. — Bertrand Russell

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress ... period. — Christine Lahti

I could not bank on the phlegmatic Chinese; I would have to take care of it myself. This would be safer and also consistent with my own responsibility. The latter is the anarch's ultimate authority. — Ernst Junger

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene. — Christine Lahti

10 faint heart -fearing: 3 God fearing combining form: 6 -phobic Fear Inside, The (1992 film) cast: Christine Lahti, Dylan McDermott, Jennifer Rubin Fear in the Night director: 5 Shane fearless: 4 bold, game 5 brave, cocky, gutsy, nervy, stout 6 awless, brassy, daring, gritty, heroic, plucky, spunky 7 assured, aweless, dashing, defiant, doughty, gallant, impavid, leonine, staunch, valiant 8 heroical, intrepid, resolute, spirited, stalwart, unafraid, valorous 9 audacious, confident, dauntless, dreadless, unabashed, undaunted 10 courageous, mettlesome, — Stanley Newman

I am an actress and acting is my passion ... period! — Christine Lahti

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different. — Christine Lahti

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left. — Christine Lahti

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time. — Christine Lahti

My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes. — Christine Lahti

When I'm not working, my time is really about my children. — Christine Lahti

Do not concern yourself with what you know or what you do not know. Do not think about the past or the future, merely allow God's hands to write the surprises of the present on each new day. — Paulo Coelho

Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular. — Christine Lahti

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera. — Christine Lahti

I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed. — Christine Lahti

I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself. — Christine Lahti

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back. — Christine Lahti

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real? — Alice Hoffman

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons! — Christine Lahti

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested. — Christine Lahti

Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood, I don't think I'm pretty enough. — Christine Lahti

On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing. — Michel Faber

The first time I tongue you into coming, it's going to be an apology. The second time will be a reward for waiting." He fell to his knees and took his first intoxicating taste of Lucy. A growl worked its way free of his chest. "The third time is going to be because I fucking love to hear you scream. — Tessa Bailey

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job ... and you better do it well! — Christine Lahti

People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't? — Michael Horton

I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar. — Christine Lahti

The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover. — Christine Lahti

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest. — Christine Lahti

Competition is very good ... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better. — Christine Lahti

The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence
can never retract.
by this, and only this, we have existed. — T. S. Eliot

Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities. — Christine Lahti

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. — Ernest Hemingway,

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning. — Christine Lahti

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame. — Christine Lahti

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma. — Christine Lahti