Top 28 Geraldine Page Quotes
#1. Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife.
Luc Sante
#2. In 'Summer and Smoke,' I was supposed to be a plain-Jane wallflower, and instead, I had all these costumes. I looked like a Barbie doll.
Geraldine Page
#3. If I read a part and think I can connect to it, that I can touch people with it, I will do it, no matter what its size. And if I think I can't do something with a part, I won't take it.
Geraldine Page
#4. The main thing is the ability to control your instrument, which, in the actor, is yourself. Look the way you want the character to look. Sound the way you want the character to sound. Once you've trained the instrument to do what you want, you're in control, and you're free.
Geraldine Page
#5. I always say it's worth doing what you want to do, not letting people manipulate you. It's worth holding out. It's worth having pride.
Geraldine Page
#6. I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
Geraldine Brooks
#7. I didn't want to be a Hollywood actress who every so often does a Broadway play. I wanted to be a Broadway actress who every so often does a movie.
Geraldine Page
#8. They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.
Geraldine Page
#9. But I know that any man whose very presence incites me to nearly throw away my reputation-or whatever shreds of it remain-is someone I must avoid at any cost.
Laurie Viera Rigler
#10. I love the Oscars. All sorts of tacky people win. And watching everyone run up and down those aisles is just adorable.
Geraldine Page
#11. I always wanted to be good at something, to be somebody. The minute I got into my first play, which was called 'Excuse My Dust' - I was 17 at the time - I knew that this was what I'd been looking for.
Geraldine Page
#12. I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.
Tab Hunter
#13. Anne is quite the animal lover," Fang said to me as we followed Angel. "Horses, sheep, goats. Chickens. Pigs." "Yeah," I said. "I wonder who's for dinner?
James Patterson
#14. Faith endures as seeing Him who is invisible (Heb. 11:27); endures the disappointments, the hardships, and the heart-aches of life, by recognizing that all comes from the hand of Him who is too wise to err and too loving to be unkind.
Arthur W. Pink
#15. A lot of people say I always play neurotic women. Well, who doesn't play neurotic women?
Geraldine Page
#16. Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares
Peter Ustinov
#17. The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
Christopher Lasch
#18. As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.
Shawn Ashmore
#19. My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.
Eliza Dushku
#20. A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkins
#21. When I became a father acting sort of took the place of what I did in my free time and my children became the main focus. I play a lot and my children play. Both my sons - my daughter's still too young really - have surpassed me with their music skills, which is wildly irritating.
Paul Bettany
#22. She wished it were evening now, wished for the great relief of the calendar inking itself out, of day done and night coming, of ice cubes knocking about in a glass beneath the whisky spilling in, that fine brown affirmation of need.
Michelle Latiolais
#24. 'Greedy gut' is my middle name. I love food, and I love parts.
Geraldine Page
#25. I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
Lawrence Summers
#27. The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation.
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
#28. I have played old ladies since I was 17 years old, and very convincingly. I've always looked funny and was too tall to play the leads and so had to play the grandmothers.
Geraldine Page
