Lesley Manville Quotes

I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to be at home, looking after my son. There was never any question about that. Alfie and I are dead close. I can't bear it when he's away.

Lesley Manville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 12, 1956

Topics

HomeSonPastLookingYouDown

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

John C. Maxwell

LiveMoneyControlSocietyDiet

My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy and gives me a reason to stay alive.

Johannes Heesters

LifeHappyMeBusyLongHealthy

'Nothing to lose' means I can go out there and try to play like I'm playing, without pressure, without nothing.

Angelique Kerber

PressureLoseI CanPlayGoNothing

Whenever you get traded out and you are playing for a winning team, it's always good.

Steve Clevenger

GoodTeamWinningYouAlwaysOut

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

Tom Stoppard

WorthTwiceIdeaOnceHaving

I love being able to help promote Seattle to travelers worldwide.

Tom Douglas

LoveHelpSeattleBeingAbleI Love

When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss. And I wonder if, in this time, if people really want to be sitting on the subway reading a book about someone releasing a dirty bomb on the subway.

Michael Koryta

TimePeopleEvilBookReadingStory

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

Joyce Brothers

MoneyDayCreditYouDrunkLift

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

Dexter Scott King

LifeMy LifeLookBackPosition

I'm not being like, 'Hey, everybody, I'm pregnant!' I'm not that girl.

Christina Aguilera

GirlBeingLikeHeyEverybody

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

Chris Tucker

GoodBlackYouBadYoungMovies

Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.

Alice McDermott

TimeExperienceSongLanguageChurch

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