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Alexis Bledel Quotes

I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: September 16, 1981

Topics

Job Person Shy Still Part Learned

Oh, God, food is a constant struggle for me. With exercise, I get my workout done, and I'm done until tomorrow. With food, I eat, and then an hour later I'm hungry again!

Jillian Michaels

God Food Struggle Tomorrow Me Done

Casting is 65 percent of directing.

John Frankenheimer

Directing Percent Casting

One movie I think is just terrific is 'Bernie,' with Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. That was a great surprise to me - so witty, so entertaining, a true story, and I'm not a great Jack Black fan, but he's great in it. I think it's a gem.

Great Me Story Black Think Surprise

I learned at an early age how to traverse the white world, the white-dominant world. I learned, and I was successful at it. I learned the nuances - I learned how to act, how to be - but I always was conscious and aware of my blackness.

Age World Early White Always Act

What's really important is the people, first of all. I like working with people who are kind, above all else. I don't really want to work with someone who will manipulate me. The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.

Work Job People Me Treat Someone

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

People World Christian Mission Had

The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.

Belief Common Religious Destructive

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

I Can Away Oh Spot Mile Phoney

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

Best Writing Criticism Kind Literacy

When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as Spinal Tap or as The Folksmen - people see you as characters walking out of a movie. And you appear in public, then, to play, it's a very schizophrenic thing.

Christopher Guest

Character People Walking You Play

When you put wrestlers on TV, they're the highest professionals in the business.

Business You TV Highest Wrestlers

Love can produce the children, but it has nothing to do with the raising of the children. I grew up thinking, 'Oh, that's it. All I have to do is fall in love.' You may think love will change everything, but it really is different with children. Children don't necessarily bring you together; they challenge you.

Love Change Children Challenge Think

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