Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Sykes

By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.

Camille Paglia

Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism . My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard !

Bernie Mac

My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.

Cassandra Wilson

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

Chamique Holdsclaw

A lot of times people say, 'You act like a grandmother, you're just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.'

Diane Cilento

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

Djuna Barnes

Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

Bob Edwards

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

Brad Pitt

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?

Meghan Ory

When you're acting, it's a fantasy already; maybe it's the costumes - I love it. It's so fun.

Coco Chanel

Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.

Dirk Benedict

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!

Mike McCue

Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the next day to see what went on with your friends' Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that.

Ginnifer Goodwin

The costumes are insane on 'Once Upon a Time.' It did influence my taking the job, the fact that not only would I be horseback riding and sword fighting and traipsing through the woods but I would be doing all those things in insane, medieval garb.

Colleen Atwood

One of the challenges with period costumes is, on a technical level, making the scale of different periods work on contemporary bodies. We're much bigger than what people were in older times.

Anna Held

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

Siri Hustvedt

There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood.

Lee Warren

He (Holbrook) said he has one of the first Mark Twain costumes he wore on stage and was saving it until The Smithsonian called. We said we could find a place for it until they do.

Barbara Kingsolver

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Olivia Hussey

When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'

Martin Freeman

I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.

Andrew Lincoln

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

Orson Scott Card

I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.

Anders Holm

Back in college, I remember shooting stupid videos with my friends. It would be us going around town in capes pretending we were superheroes.

Mira Sorvino

Being is like pretending.

Oprah Winfrey

Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.

Julian Barnes

Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.