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Jean Smart Quotes

Personally, I think life offers us the opportunity to take chances and make changes all the time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: September 13, 1951

Topics

Life Opportunity Time Think Changes

We just have to go to that next class, read that next chapter, help that next person. You simply have to do that next good thing, and before you know it, you're living a good life.

Andrew Clements

Life Good Help Good Life You Living

I was never sullen. I was a terrible punk - I was still so chatty.

Melissa McCarthy

Never Punk Terrible Still Sullen

I think everyone at times feels awkward, like they don't fit in. But I was lucky to have super-cool parents who reminded me to embrace what makes you special - that you shouldn't want to blend in with everybody.

Parents Me Think You Want Embrace

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

Good People Treat Process You Know

When I was growing up, I was really into comedy. I listened to a lot of comedy albums. I loved Richard Pryor, but the comic that had the most impact on me was always my brother Chris, who was in the next room. It was tangible. If Chris could make it, I could try.

Brother Me Growing Up Impact Loved

I love doing comedy. But sometimes, that exists at sort of the mid-level to the high-comedy level of craziness, and I don't necessarily get to plumb the depths of kind of serious acting as often.

Love Comedy Doing Acting Sometimes

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

Delmore Schwartz

You Bath Take Means Else

The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.

Good Fear Dark Dark Side Intentions

I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.

Myself Loved Acting Question Hard

Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and it goes into people's minds and that's the only place that it ever exists. And it never exists truly; it only exists in the way that people think they remember it. But it's a really powerful way to tell a story and to pass something on.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

People Story Think Remember Powerful

What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.

Peter Maxwell Davies

Think Always Expect Going Made

I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am urged by many things and no things in particular.

I Am Think Literature Something Make

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