Mornay Quotes & Sayings

I think there's a knowingness in my face. — Rebecca De Mornay

I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything. — Rebecca De Mornay

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work. — Rebecca De Mornay

I've never committed to a role without a script. — Rebecca De Mornay

I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room. — Rebecca De Mornay

I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school. — Rebecca De Mornay

I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now. — Rebecca De Mornay

I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed. — Rebecca De Mornay

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination. — Rebecca De Mornay

I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost. — Rebecca De Mornay

My companions for the afternoon were affable, welcoming middle-aged men in their late thirties and early forties who simply had no conception of the import of the afternoon for the rest of us. To them it was an afternoon out, a fun thing to do on a Saturday afternoon; if I were to meet them again, they would, I think, be unable to recall the score that afternoon, or the scorer (at half-time they talked office politics), and in a way I envied them their indifference. Perhaps there is an argument that says Cup Final tickets are wasted on the fans, in the way that youth is wasted on the young; these men, who knew just enough about football to get them through the afternoon, actively enjoyed the occasion, its drama and its noise and its momentum, whereas I hated every minute of it, as I hated every Cup Final involving Arsenal. — Nick Hornby

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying. — Rebecca De Mornay

You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride. — Robert Johnson

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director. — Rebecca De Mornay

I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash. — Rebecca De Mornay

I may be an optimist. — Rebecca De Mornay

I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what. — Douglas Coupland

Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy. — Sheryl Sandberg

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started. — Rebecca De Mornay

I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything. — Rebecca De Mornay

I love my friends. I love my love-life. I love my hobbies. I love eating. — Rebecca De Mornay

I just think that I'll never have plastic surgery if I'm not in front of the camera. If you make your living selling this thing, which is the way you look, then maybe you do it. But trust me, the minute I'm directing or producing and not starring, I would never even think of it. — Rebecca De Mornay

Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable. — Rebecca De Mornay

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. — Napoleon Bonaparte

We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on. — Jacqueline Carey

I was just glad to be going to work again. — Rebecca De Mornay

I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it. — Rebecca De Mornay

There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over ... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not. — Rebecca De Mornay

Mama says mine is a night mind. — Jack Womack

There is no diplomacy like candor. — E. V. Lucas