Frances Conroy Quotes

#1. Promises didn't mean much...Anything could happen when all was said and done.

Allison Brennan

#2. Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

Alcaeus

#3. It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.

Frances Conroy

#4. Running is a gift I give myself almost daily. Even at days when everything seems to go wrong, I treat myself on the satisfaction of a lap of 30 to 40 minutes.

Arthur Blank

#5. Marriage is an exercise in torture.

Frances Conroy

#6. I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.

Pat Conroy

#7. 'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.

Frances Conroy

#8. If we want to grow as teachers
we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives
risky stuff in a profession that fears the personal and seeks safety in the technical, the distant, the abstract.

Parker J. Palmer

#9. I've always been fortunate in that I've been able to put myself in my own zone and relax. It comes naturally. I'm lucky to be that way

Michael Phelps

#10. Cass, I know you're only trying to help but I will stab you in your face.

S.L.J. Shortt

#11. As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

Frances Conroy

#12. It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.

Arundhati Roy

#13. I can't form a total picture of things. Because I'm not her.

Frances Conroy

#14. I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things.

Frances Conroy

#15. It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

Frances Conroy

#16. If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.

Frances Conroy

#17. Admitted to Playboy in 1993 that he smoked marijuana twice.

Rush Limbaugh

#18. Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.

Mason Cooley

#19. I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.

Frances Conroy

#20. There is nothing else that I would rather do than sing. I have such a great passion for it. Even if I don't become successful or famous I am still going to continue singing.

Lucy Hale

#21. Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

Frances Conroy

#22. This was my slender bridge to the future, and I stepped onto it as carefully as I could.

Alexander Chee

#23. Life is not all sunshine, but yet I would willingly consent to live ten centuries out of pure curiosity!" That

Jules Verne