Signoret Simone Quotes & Sayings

Sacrifice and devotion do not inherently save those you love; sometimes their chosen path will lead them past any hope of redemption. — Amanda Gerry

If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too. — Simone Signoret

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is thread, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. — Simone Signoret

The younger a religious person is when she gets married, the less she understands and knows about her sexuality. Add to this the incredible fear of talking about sexual fantasies, masturbation, experimentation and pornography, and a young adult enters a marriage with a serious handicap that can inhibit sexual development for life.
Such people have no template for communication except through their guilt-based training. — Darrel Ray

I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old. — Simone Signoret

Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life. — Simone Signoret

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist. — William Gurnall

The mighty cultural heroes and kings who fabricated the megamachine and performed these tasks, from Gilgamesh and Imhotep to Sargon and Alexander the Great, roused their contemporaries from a sluggish passive acceptance of cramped, 'natural limits': they called upon them to 'plan the impossible.' And when the work was done, that which had seemed impossible of human performance had, in fact, been realized. From around 3,500 B.C. on, nothing that men could imagine seemed to lie entirely beyond the reach of royal power. — Lewis Mumford

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession. — Simone Signoret

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law. — Simone Signoret

He bore no grudge against those he had wronged. — Simone Signoret

Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never had to go through the stress of perpetuating an image that's often the equivalent of one particular song that forever freezes a precise moment of one's youth. — Simone Signoret

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part ... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine. — Simone Signoret

Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce! — William Shakespeare

When I was young and beautiful, I never appeared on the cover of a magazine. — Simone Signoret

I want only dead actors. That way there'll be no jealousy. — Simone Signoret

I could. I don't think Dan can. He's trying to bang some biochemist working in the research lab next to his. For his sake, I hope she's as hot as he claims. His last lay could scare Christ off the cross. — Cecy Robson

The prostitute is the sum of all types of feminine slavery at once. — Simone De Beauvoir

When we refuse to be kind to someone when it would be right to do it; when we lie to each other; when we lash out in violence, we transgress, disregarding the standards and statutes of God. — Henry Cloud

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies — Friedrich Nietzsche

He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged. — Simone Signoret

I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they're bad - I have to smile. — Simone Signoret