Amy Irving Quotes

When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.

Amy Irving

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1953

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Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.

John Boyega

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I am a clinical zombie.

Andy Biersack

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It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Robert M. Pirsig

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Oddly enough, I'm not a particularly judgmental person. I just don't have a lot of filtering when I'm in 'tiger mother' mode. I say what comes into my head.

Amy Chua

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Acting to me is always reacting.

Spencer Tracy

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It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

Spike Lee

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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Truman Capote

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When I speak with people who love their jobs and have vital friendships at work, they always talk about how their workgroup is like a family.

Tom Rath

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Mothers and daughters find in each other the source of great comfort but also of great pain. We talk to each other in better and worse ways than we talk to anyone else.

Deborah Tannen

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The audiences in the U.K. like me more than in America.

Brian Wilson

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A song is a lot of things. But, first of all, a song is the voice of its time. Setting words to music gives them weight, makes then somehow easier to say, and it helps them to be remembered.

Richard Rodgers

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It's rare that this woman gets to be in a superhero movie and not be the victim.

Morena Baccarin

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