Bedelia Quotes

#1. William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.

James Gray

#2. Amelia Bedelia," said Mrs. Rogers,
"Christmas is just around the corner."
"It is?" said Amelia Bedelia. "Which corner?"
Mrs. Rogers lauhged and said,
"I mean tomorrow is Christmas Day."
"I know that," said Amelia Bedelia.

Peggy Parish

#3. Ashish Shah, Your Kindle book loan for Amelia Bedelia Chapter Book #2: Amelia Bedelia Unleashed has ended.

Anonymous

#4. I guess I love mischief as much as Amelia Bedelia. I simply enjoy laughing at life.

Peggy Parish

#5. I've had some interesting roles along the way, but they tend to be cause-driven. They're always about something. There isn't time for character work as an actor because you're fighting the cause or mourning the child or fighting the disease, etc.

Bonnie Bedelia

#6. When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of intestinal operations, and was in the hospital for nearly a year. So the four of us teenagers lived by ourselves in the apartment without a guardian.

Bonnie Bedelia

#7. My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.

Bonnie Bedelia

#8. I'm from New York; I've been in show business all my life. I'm a wild and crazy gal, yet I always play these soft, warm, loving earth mothers. It's a pain in the butt. I'm a femme fatale!

Bonnie Bedelia

#9. Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#10. The Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.

Cathy Davidson

#11. Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.

Iris Apfel

#12. Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.

Bonnie Bedelia

#13. I don't consider roles like in 'Die Hard' what I do. This is like a hobby. It's fun. I had a good time. And I love being in a movie that people actually go see. But it's about things getting blown up. It's not about great character development.

Bonnie Bedelia

#14. As far as I'm concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza.

Bonnie Bedelia

#15. We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another.

Parker Palmer

#16. If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.

Bonnie Bedelia

#17. Everyone expects us to be assholes nowadays. I think we've let them down. We're regular dudes and dorky kids. Success doesn't mean you have to change.

Mikey Way

#18. Our bodies are our temples. They should have a little more respect for themselves than that."
"You know, I could have sworn I saw you shoveling Cheetos into your temple last week."
"Oh, but I'm pretty sure those were nonfat," Kaylee piped up.
Oh brother.

Gemma Halliday

#19. For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the
supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.

Martin Luther

#20. I don't take the roles home with me. I don't work that way. I don't understand that; I mean, I really don't when I hear that.

Bonnie Bedelia

#21. We need children to play the parts in movies. I'm just glad it's not my kids.

Bonnie Bedelia

#22. If someone were to come from another planet and see the world through movies, they'd think that the world was populated by white men in their 30s who shoot a lot.

Bonnie Bedelia

#23. Sure the body count in this movie bothers me, but what are you gonna do? It's what everybody likes. At least it's not an awful body count - it's a fun body count.

Bonnie Bedelia

#24. I have two children - could I ever choose between them? Never. That's what 'Sophie's Choice' was about. If you have 50 children, you don't love one less.

Bonnie Bedelia

#25. I've always been into bearded dudes.

Kesha

#26. I didn't even know how to judge 'Die Hard 1.' It's not anything I know how to judge. I'd never seen an action movie. I'd never seen a Sly Stallone movie or an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie or a Charles Bronson movie. And that is the truth.

Bonnie Bedelia

#27. I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.

Bonnie Bedelia

#28. Everyone should get their news however they want to and in whatever form they want. I'm not going to sit back in judgment of other people and the way they do it.

Jim Lehrer

#29. Whenever there's heavy-duty emotional work to be done, they call me. As for playing the completely off-the-wall, sexy, gorgeous lady that I am - no, they don't think of me.

Bonnie Bedelia