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Jenna Elfman Quotes

There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

Jenna Elfman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: September 30, 1971

Topics

Women Power Men Cool Think Role

I describe myself as a big kid with an old soul, I'm very playful whimsical, but I definitely have that old soul as well.

Jidenna

Myself Soul Old Kid Playful Big

I get paid for what most kids get punished for.

Jerry Lewis

Paid Get Kids Most Punished

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

Robert MacNeil

Me Country Way Mean Everything Here

A big part of life is realizing what you're good at.

Alyssa Milano

Life Good You Big Part Realizing

I'm the son of two Holocaust survivors. As a child, I heard from one of my parents' best friends about living through Mengele's infamous selection process at Auschwitz. He haunted my nightmares.

Ronen Bergman

Son Best Child Parents Friends Two

I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon.

Jay McInerney

Hope People Me Think Try Fraud

I would like to keep working forever. As long as they will have me.

Diana Rigg

Me Long Will Forever Keep Working

I had a very 'colorful' language, and every time I went to say something, Michael would cut me off with words like 'shoot' and 'fudge.' He didn't like curses. He didn't think it was necessary when other words would do.

Debbie Rowe

Time Words Me Think Language Say

I have a really small and strange job history.

Perfume Genius

History Job Small Strange Really

The merger of globalization and the I.T. revolution means new products are being phased in and out so fast that companies cannot afford to wait until the end of the year to figure out whether a team leader is doing a good job.

Thomas Friedman

Good Leader Job Team Wait End

In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.

Renzo Piano

Good Mother Attitude Quality People

I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the 'Chronicles Of Narnia,' 'The Wizard Of Oz,' 'The Phantom Tollbooth,' the 'Dungeons & Dragons' cartoon on Saturday morning in the '80s.

Lev Grossman

Morning Loved Better Saturday Out