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Mae West Quotes

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: August 17, 1893 - November 22, 1980

Topics

Good Too Much Wonderful Much Thing

I love New York: it reminds me a bit of London.

Love New York Me New London I Love

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Fire Anger Bitterness Clean Cancer

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

Love Poetry Listening Know Sometimes

When we shot the pilot for 'Voyager,' Armin Shimmerman, who played Quark on 'Deep Space Nine,' was very gracious and outgoing about preparing us for these personal appearances. Still, nothing really can prepare you for the first time when you walk out on stage and 2,000 people in a room stand up and applaud simply because you're there.

Time Walk Space People Stand Up You

A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.

Stefano Langone

Moment Words Amazing You Know Say

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

Me Theatre Acting Want Actor Saw

If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, you see something different - a different attitude or brushstroke. 'Hamlet' is like an entire gallery of old masters.

Love Attitude Great Time Painting

The day I turned 16, I moved into my own flat. My parents had just broken up, and I didn't want to go back to Ireland with my mother. I was doing my A-levels, and my friends would come over and watch 'Twin Peaks.'

Mother Day Broken Parents Doing Go

I was in the orphanage in New Orleans until I was almost a year old. I don't think I ever got held by my mama, so that was completely and utterly traumatic. I think it was trauma from the first breath, and I think I've spent my whole life trying to heal from that trauma. So it shaped my brain.

Life Brain Think Trying Year New

I've been working seriously in giving fashion a place that it deserves.

Diane von Furstenberg

Fashion Giving Place Seriously Been

I think the only reason I wanted to do modeling, really, was because I knew I wasn't ready to act; I knew I didn't have enough life experience, and I knew that doing photo shoots was a way of acting. Playing a character each shoot and being able to just emerge yourself in these awkward experiences - it was amazing.

Life Character Experience Yourself

My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was.

Life Early Fault Mess Just How

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