Dianne Wiest Quotes

#1. I love 'Annie Hall,' but then I adore 'Hannah and Her Sisters.' Dianne Wiest is amazing in 'Bullets Over Broadway,' but her in 'Hannah and Her Sisters,' I absolutely loved it.

Cate Blanchett

#2. A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. Honestly, I love television. I love the idea of going to work every day and getting to know your crew and having a rapport with your directors and having a family of cast.

Britt Robertson

#4. I shot Footloose nearby, and we used to hike. Very fond memories.

Dianne Wiest

#5. I used to watch dailies and felt I had to keep on top of the character, but I don't feel that any more.

Dianne Wiest

#6. Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.

Dianne Wiest

#7. Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.

Dianne Wiest

#8. Scientifically, there's no debate over whether the fetus is alive and human.

Ron Paul

#9. I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.

Dianne Wiest

#10. Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated.

Dianne Wiest

#11. It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to.

Dianne Wiest

#12. It never ends, the bruise
of being

Kevin Young

#13. The women who intrigued me [as models] had the most beautiful necks and the most responsive hand movements. At one point, I found El Greco, and that elongated look became my way of seeing.

Lillian Bassman

#14. When we were doing Bullets over Broadway, he told me to be more fragile and I thought I was, but he saw it completely differently.

Dianne Wiest

#15. Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.

Dianne Wiest

#16. I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

Dianne Wiest

#17. I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

Dianne Wiest

#18. We can take this as slow as you want. But I will claim you, Shay. You're mine. I'm not staying away from you anymore.

Suzanne Wright

#19. I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

Dianne Wiest

#20. I'm more aware of time. The element of time.

Dianne Wiest

#21. You are at the mercies of the dailies. With an indie you don't have that.

Dianne Wiest

#22. Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.

Dianne Wiest

#23. I've been grateful for what comes along.

Dianne Wiest

#24. The formula is the star. I couldn't work inside that formula.

Dianne Wiest

#25. I blog because I have something to say.

Eddie Huang

#26. What I love is a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. I'll just have peanut butter and bananas, then peanut butter and pickles. Peanut butter and chocolate I don't recommend.

Dianne Wiest

#27. Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming - strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate clean-energy technologies in the market.

Joseph J. Romm

#28. I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.

Barbara Bush

#29. Sweet things happen. They still do.

Dianne Wiest

#30. Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

Dianne Wiest

#31. But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

Robert Jay Lifton

#32. The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.

Charles Lamb

#33. The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

Dianne Wiest

#34. It's always worthwhile speaking to a clever man.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky