Doubleday's Quotes

#1. Doubleday's First Law, which states that if you throw a fastball with insufficient speed, someone will smack it out of the park with a stick.

Jim Bouton

#2. After months of negotiations, Iran has finally agreed to reduce its nuclear weapons program. Which was great until Putin showed up and said, 'Hi, I'm here about Craigslist ad for nukes.'

Jimmy Fallon

#3. The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.

Kaitlin Doubleday

#4. The honest truth is - and I have felt this way forever - is my largest competitor is myself. Always. I am intimidated by my own hang-ups about acting more so than anything, any part, any director.

Portia Doubleday

#5. I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.

Portia Doubleday

#6. I guess rebelliousness has been explored in many movies, but what about the smart kids' rebellion? Not just the motorcycle jackets and that kind of rebellion; it's the dorky kid - what could he do?

Portia Doubleday

#7. Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that's my persona.

Letitia Baldrige

#8. I don't understand what's happening in 'Mr. Robot' all the time, and I'm really actually intimated for the second season. I'll have to rewatch the first season, I think.

Portia Doubleday

#9. In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.

Portia Doubleday

#10. They found Seth Hubbard in the general area where he had promised to be, though not exactly in the condition expected. He was at the end of a rope, six feet off the ground and twisting slightly in the wind.

John Grisham

#11. There is no pleasure in this world like the company of friends," said the Mouse, "and no pain like losing them.

Simon R. Doubleday

#12. I was 18 years old when I booked 'Youth in Revolt,' and it was my first movie, and I was starring in that movie - and even then, I didn't feel like I had made it.

Portia Doubleday

#13. My sister basically showed me how to be a person for many years of my life. I just didn't really fit anywhere, and my sister was always really comfortable in who she was.

Portia Doubleday

#14. The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.

Branch Rickey

#15. I can't be anybody but myself.

William Hung

#16. Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

Henry Chadwick

#17. It's my privilege and honor to cook three meals a day for my family, and it's a luxury on a level that I didn't even realize, because it can be relentless for me on some days. You have pride in how you take care of your family.

Julia Roberts

#18. Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.

Kaitlin Doubleday

#19. I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business.

Portia Doubleday

#20. I don't settle. That's how I am.

Pau Gasol

#21. Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

Jonathan Swift

#22. You're as old as the land and you've never heard of sarcasm? Conor asked.
Oh, I have heard of it, the monster said, putting its huge branch hands on its hips. But people usually know better than to speak it to me.

Patrick Ness

#23. No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.

Andre Aciman

#24. Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

Russell Means

#25. I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy.

Portia Doubleday

#26. I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death. - W. B. YEATS

Al Alvarez

#27. One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

Rainn Wilson

#28. I played soccer for 12 years on three different teams at a time.

Portia Doubleday

#29. Part of water which is cooler always flows to below surface.
I understand that hotheaded men always want to be noticed.

Toba Beta

#30. If I could play football, I'd play football. But not women's football - real football. Or I'd just date a quarterback.

Portia Doubleday

#31. I was thinking of going to college or staying in L.A. to act, and I stayed to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. I've had a lot of wonderful experiences - some horrible ones, but mostly really beautiful ones.

Kaitlin Doubleday