Clayburgh's Quotes

#1. Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.

Gail Sheehy

#2. He searched the ground floor and found only shadow and stillness, which should've reassured him but didn't. It was the wrong kind of stillness, the shocked stillness that follows the bang of a cherry bomb. His eardrums throbbed from the pressure of all that quiet, a dreadful silence.

Joe Hill

#3. I don't theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that she's thinking.

Jill Clayburgh

#4. You can't let nobody run your train.

LeBron James

#5. The rule that science is the only way to know something is itself unscientific; it cannot be tested. So the claim
that only science can demonstrate truth actually flunks its own test, since it cannot validate itself!

Gary R. Habermas

#6. There's something about soft, unstructured arms that's very beautiful.

Jill Clayburgh

#7. I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.

Jill Clayburgh

#8. I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.

Jill Clayburgh

#9. The choice in this life is not between easy and hard, but between kinds of hardship, between a hardship that gives birth to wisdom, compassion and mercy, and the hardship that keeps on replicating itself to no end.

Noam Shpancer

#10. I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please.

Jill Clayburgh

#11. I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.

Jill Clayburgh

#12. Marriage is becoming sort of fake. It's almost like a handbag. Everybody wants the newest, greatest and latest. It becomes an event, and it's definitely a status symbol in our society. I'm not saying it shouldn't be; it absolutely should be - but you shouldn't be focusing on that.

Rob Lowe

#13. I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

Jill Clayburgh

#14. Memory is the basis of every journey.

Stephen King

#15. When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

Iain Duncan Smith

#16. A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.

Jill Clayburgh

#17. There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

Jill Clayburgh

#18. What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

Jill Clayburgh

#19. People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

Jill Clayburgh

#20. I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

Jill Clayburgh

#21. I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie you're watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.

Jill Clayburgh

#22. I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

Jill Clayburgh

#23. Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

Jill Clayburgh

#24. Joseph's story just parted company with the volumes of self-help books and all the secret-to-success formulas that direct the struggler to an inner power ("dig deeper"). Joseph's story points elsewhere ("look higher").

Max Lucado

#25. A lot of filmmaking is all about filtering out the bullshit.

Mark Webber

#26. There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.

Jill Clayburgh

#27. I want to be an actress, not a personality.

Jill Clayburgh

#28. Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

Daisaku Ikeda

#29. I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.

Jill Clayburgh

#30. Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are.

Jill Clayburgh

#31. My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.

Claes Oldenburg