Top 100 Robin Wright Quotes
#1. For actors in Hollywood, it's very straightforward. We're well-paid animals in a zoo.
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#4. I run, lift weights and do yoga to stay in shape.
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#6. With 'House of Cards,' you really get the heart and the meat of drama - and it's a thriller!
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#7. Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating.
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#8. I tell you, being on a soap is the hardest work, and it gets so old. Get on your mark, get in the light, don't turn too far upstage - that's all it is.
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#9. I'm the homemaker, and that's fine with me because I really like that.
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#10. I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that.
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#11. Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that ... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.
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#13. It's just never been in my nature to go out there and go on a red carpet to say, 'Oh, publicize me!'
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#14. I can't imagine going back to long hair. Cutting it was the greatest thing I ever did.
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#15. You're never going to be able to delve into the character traits of a Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton.
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#16. I always wanted to get out of L.A., but time passes, and you find excuses to stay.
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#17. I've been told I've done a lot of flop movies. And I think, 'Wow, I've never considered them flops!' I've loved every character I played.
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#18. I remember calling directors numerous times and saying, 'Oh, you should cast so-and-so instead of me. They're much better for the role.'
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#19. I'm a hedonist when it comes to culinary delights.
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#20. It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.
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#21. I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.
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#23. Would I marry again? No. But never say never. Why marry? It's a beautiful fortress, but I don't need it.
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#25. Famous is celebrityism, and I don't want that ... I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are. I can't imagine living that life, but I don't think I consider myself famous.
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#28. From the time I was wee big, my mother was one of the first members of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Women going door-to-door and letting housewives have their own business - that was really a breakthrough. It was huge.
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#29. The best part of shooting 'House of Cards' in Baltimore is eating lots of soft-shell crab.
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#31. If you're the head of a business, there's a protocol that people have to follow.
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#32. When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.
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#34. I'm really trying to be in the now - that's so spiritual and stuff. It's just so much more pleasant and sane.
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#35. I just pray I can keep working. I just pray I grow old gracefully.
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#36. I wouldn't be a good model for any designer's idea of what fashion is.
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#37. I hate everything I do. I hate my voice. I sound like a guy.
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#38. My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom.
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#39. Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.
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#40. I don't want to always be the tortured, soulful wife.
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#41. I think the inception of my interest in arts was when I was around 9 or 10 and I started dancing. I was really convinced that I was going to go to New York and be onstage in 'A Chorus Line.'
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#42. I dislike arrogant men and diva behavior in either gender.
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#45. I grew up very fast as a young girl, but I grew slowly into my womanhood.
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#46. If 'American Beauty' came out today, it wouldn't make nearly as much money.
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#47. I'm not up there with Kate Winslet and Julia Roberts. I don't sell tickets. I've known that for a long time.
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#48. I didn't want to raise my kids in this weird, sycophantic society. If you have celebrity parents, it's not a good recipe for the kids, or anyone at any age.
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#50. You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.
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#51. I think I've always been waiting for things to happen.
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#52. I'm worried that the audience is being conditioned. That's my real fear. Because if they don't want to see wrinkles on the screen, if they actually fear looking at them, then it's only going to get worse. Those of us who don't want to shoot up and cut and sew, we're just not going be cast.
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#53. That character called 'Robin Wright' in the movie called 'The Congress' has nothing to do with me ... I've never felt that way about life choices, career, etc.
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#54. I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge.
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#55. Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting.
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#56. The word 'demand' is a tricky word when used by our gender. When used by men, it's part of their vernacular.
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#57. What I'm looking for in people now is kindness.
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#58. I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not.
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#59. You never accomplish everything you want to accomplish.
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#60. If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day.
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#61. If there's nothing for me to do as an actress, then that's frustrating. I'd rather go work at a menial labour job, where I can actually get my hands dirty.
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#62. As an actor, I had noticed very vividly that very few directors know how to direct actors because they haven't done it.
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#63. Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.
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#64. Electronics companies are purchasing the minerals that come out of the Eastern Congo, and they are illicit; they're dirty.
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#65. It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?
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#66. I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.
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#67. I'm not in the business of talking about what 'isn't.'
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#68. I can't imagine having long hair anymore; it's weird.
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#69. Oh my God, Zumba is the greatest invention ever for women. I like to exercise, though I do nothing consistently because I get bored and impatient. With Zumba, you're dancing, you're moving your hips. So much fun.
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#70. My son graduated high school and went to Haiti to work for his dad's organization and then extended his stay. It's incredible what he's doing.
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#71. I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.
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#72. It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.
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#73. The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.
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#74. Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.
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#75. I'm not exactly the type of actress who does half a dozen films a year.
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#76. My mother liked to buy houses, fix them up, and turn them over. We'd live somewhere for a few months and then move to another house, sometimes just two blocks away.
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#77. D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.
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#78. I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.
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#79. I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.
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#80. Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22.' It's endless. They're all in this gigantic pile next to my bed.
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#81. Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.
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#83. My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.
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#84. I have a house here in California and come back every month and a half to see my kids. And they come to New York.
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#85. I'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.
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#86. I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot.
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#87. Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing.
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#88. After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.
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#89. I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.
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#90. I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl.
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#93. I never went to college. I was pregnant at 23.
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#94. A great life is to be able to ebb and flow.
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#95. I can't stop moving. I'm like this weird insect. I can't sit still in real life.
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#97. I'm trying to do the paleo diet. No carbs.
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#98. Learning what you don't want is how you know what you do want.
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#99. I really wanted to be a mom. I didn't want my kids to be raised by a nanny, which would have been the case if I were working two movies in a year, you know? And I would have been hospitalized with fatigue.
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#100. Hollywood is difficult to navigate if you have integrity, so I opted not to work if there wasn't enough to do in a role, which doesn't have to do with the role's size.
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