Westfeldt Jennifer Quotes & Sayings

Miley [Cyrus] is so sweet. In this generation - and I know because I have two teenage boys - they don't really have to care about things. It's kind of a desensitized generation. I'm so impressed that she's really vegan and outspoken about animal welfare. — Pamela Anderson

Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to be. — Jennifer Westfeldt

The hardest thing is never what you think it's going to be. — Jennifer Westfeldt

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended. — Jennifer Westfeldt

When you find your heart's desire, you'll have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life. — Brian Tracy

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium. — Jeanette Winterson

Dogs just need you and love, that's all. — Jennifer Westfeldt

Emotions of the sould should be watched, regulary examined, and kept well balanced. — Roger N. Walsh

People in theatre work harder than anyone in the world - as far as I'm concerned - as far as sheer output of energy and the rigor and excellence that they maintain doing something every day, or twice a day. — Jennifer Westfeldt

I'm pretty much honest to a fault. It's my best and my worst quality. — Jennifer Westfeldt

The part that I felt most comfortable with going in was just working with actors and trying to make them feel comfortable and safe so they could find the performance. That part felt organic to me. — Jennifer Westfeldt

After the cafes of Paris with their exquisite wines and creamy fromages, crepes and steak tartare
screaming Adore me!
Madrid was these store-bought hunks of unyielding cheese and brick-hard baguettes, consumed in leafless Buen Retiro Park.ll Madrid, dressed as it was, tasting as it did, prideful as hell, didn't care what you thought about it on your junior-year backpacking trip. That was your problem. — Michael Paterniti

War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration. — Anthony Daniels

As an actor on sets, I've always clocked how hard the crew works, how much longer their days are, how much lesser their glory is - and the fact that their commitment to the work and project is unwavering, no matter the budget. — Jennifer Westfeldt

I always cry at weddings; they're beautiful, and I'm always moved. — Jennifer Westfeldt

There are never enough 'I love you's. — Lenny Bruce

With any independent film, it's all about getting everyone's schedules in line and everything together at the same time and just doing the best you can do when that happens - if it happens. — Jennifer Westfeldt

Day followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. She would kill herself rather than go on, she decided one night ...
Yet when she slept that night, she dreamt the dragon dream again. Viserys was not in it this time. There was only her and the dragon. Its scales were black as night, wet and slick with blood. Her blood, Dany sensed. Its eyes were pools of molten magma and when it opened its mouth, the flame came roaring out in a hot jet. She could hear it singing to her. She opened her arms to the fire, embraced it, let it swallow her whole, let it cleanse her and temper her and scour her clean. She could feel her flesh sear and blacken and slough away, could feel her blood boil and turn to steam, and yet there was no pain. She felt strong and new and fierce.
And the next day, strangely, she did not seem to hurt quite as much. — George R R Martin

I'm not a parent yet, but I feel like a kid needs to be loved. — Jennifer Westfeldt

Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me. — Jennifer Westfeldt

A friend of mine was married to an assistant church pastor who regularly beat her up. He was smart ?- he'd do it in a way that the bruises didn't show. For the longest time, she dealt with it. Who would believe the minister was a wife beater?! Meanwhile, my friend ? - An attorney! ? - Suffered in silence. — Carolyn Maloney

Don't be too afraid of failure to learn what you need to learn. — Jennifer Westfeldt

In some ways I'm oddly traditional, I've been a serial monogamist since I was 12. I've always tried to work hard and get good grades and be a good person, but I feel like I've also always had a strange defiance of authority or the status quo, I've never understood why things always have to be just one way. — Jennifer Westfeldt

I think women should support each other's work, encourage each other's work, help develop each other's voices and I think, ultimately, when we can stop having the conversation about 'women filmmakers', and just talk about 'filmmakers', then we'll know we've really gotten somewhere. — Jennifer Westfeldt

It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring, — Jennifer Westfeldt

I've seen so many people in my life struggle tremendously to fit into those boxes or to live up to those expectations or pressures put upon them by whatever society's concept of 'normal' is. I get frustrated by rules and regulations. I'm frustrated by things that are exclusive to one particular life choice. — Jennifer Westfeldt

The saddest and strangest part of Hollywood to me is the fact that millions of dollars are spent on developing works that never get made. It doesn't make any sense to me. I don't understand it. — Jennifer Westfeldt

I think we all learn by doing rather than thinking about doing. — Jennifer Westfeldt

My mom and my stepdad are both therapists. — Jennifer Westfeldt

It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life. — Jane Hamilton

I guess what I learned about myself is I'm a bit of a socialist; I want everyone on the set to get equal treatment and credit. — Jennifer Westfeldt

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me. — Jennifer Westfeldt

I think film is collaboration, and I always want to hear everyone's input. — Jennifer Westfeldt