Ulmann Doris Quotes & Sayings

When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums. — Brian J. White

Maybe consequences are dear friends in stealthy disguise. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Accept myself, and expect more of myself.
Give myself limits to give myself freedom.
Make people happier by acknowledging that they're not feeling happy.
Plan ahead to be spontaneous; only with careful preparation do I feel carefree.
Accomplish more by working less.
Happiness doesn't always make me feel happy.
Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.
It's very hard to make things easier.
My material desires have a spiritual aspect.
Hell is other people. Heaven is other people.
What was "happiness," anyway, and was it even possible to make myself happier? — Gretchen Rubin

Colour is always a consequence, never a cause. — Edwin Land

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient; nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in a fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient; and looking upon them only as sick and extravagant. — Seneca.

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer. — Louise Gluck

Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses. — Deborah Day

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow. — Tess Gerritsen

There won't be any love to spare in this world as long as there's five francs. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time. — Janet Fitch

It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse. — Jeff Goldblum

A face that has the marks of having lived intensely, that expresses some phase of life, some dominant quality or intellectual power, constitutes for me an interesting face. For this reason the face of an older person, perhaps not beautiful in the strictest sense, is usually more appealing than the face of a younger person who has scarcely been touched by life. — Doris Ulmann

It is better to get married with the mindset that you are going to give rather than get. — Paul Silway

Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice-President of the United States. Should have stuck?as Speaker of the House? Gave up the second most important job in Government foreight long years as Roosevelt's spare tire. — John Nance Garner

A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers. — Michael Morpurgo

Loneliness is multiplied by rejection. — Don Curtis