Top 92 Hattie Quotes
#1. Hattie handed me a fresh cup of coffee. "Off you go now. Write a masterpiece that will save the world," she cackled nudging me out of the kitchen.
Kaylie Hunter
#2. As a woman, it seems you can't just be a comedian; you're always classed as something else, too, whether that's 'beautiful,' 'pint-sized,' 'larger-than-life' or in my case, 'Hattie Jacques-esque,' 'the giraffe,' 'big.'
Miranda Hart
#3. Because spite could be a slow poison to the heart. If there was a lesson to be learned from Hattie, it was that forgiveness was a blessing. It would be a hard, stubborn thing to harbor ill feelings forever, even toward those who deserved it...
Jessica Lawson
#5. Hattie felt as if someone had reached inside her breast, grabbed her heart, and twisted it out of her body, only to discard it in the slop bucket.
Pamela Morsi
#6. Hattie had never been easy to love. She was too quiet, it was impossible to know what she was thinking. And she was angry all of the time and so disdainful when her high expectations weren't met.
Ayana Mathis
#7. Hattie clambered from the train, her skirt still hemmed with Georgia mud, the dream of Philadelphia round as a marble in her mouth and the fear of it a needle in her chest.
Ayana Mathis
#8. Hattie was like a lake of smooth, silvered ice, under which nothing could be seen or known.
Ayana Mathis
#9. In Georgia, there was a eucalyptus tree in the wood across from Hattie's house, but the plant had been hard to come by in the Philadelphia winter.
Ayana Mathis
#10. Some things you can't apologize for, you just have to try to get around them," Hattie replied. "For your own sake too, so you can have a little peace.
Ayana Mathis
#11. Hattie.' Grace patted my arm. 'My cows sing better than you do.
Kirby Larson
#12. I'm quite a confident person in many ways, but there's only so much you can hear about being compared to Hattie Jacques. For the record, she was a comedy goddess, but she was 25 stone. I hope I'm right in saying I'm not in any way nearly 25 stone.
Miranda Hart
#13. Down the hall the children slept three to a bedroom; Hattie could almost hear them growing, their wrists lengthening and poking out beyond the cuffs of their sleeves, their feet outgrowing their shoes, their shoulders widening and pulling the fabric of their coats taut.
Ayana Mathis
#14. In a comprehensive analysis of data on more than half a million professors, the education experts John Hattie and Herbert Marsh found that "the relationship between teaching and research is zero.
Anonymous
#15. It's dreadfully tiresome to keep one's true self hidden" -Hattie
Jessica Lawson
#16. Do you know I keep a picture of Hattie McDaniel in my closet in an 8-by-10 frame?
Mo'Nique
#18. Hattie wanted to give her babies names that weren't already chiseled on a headstone in the family plots in Georgia, so she gave them names of promise and of hope, reaching-forward names, not looking-back ones.
Ayana Mathis
#19. good-byes to Hattie, and she was cordial enough,
Tim LaHaye
#20. It's Sunday night," he continues. "You aren't at Pizza Pellino."
"No, I'm at the Treehouse with Hattie." And then I'm so dizzy my vision goes black. "How ... how did you know that I'm not there?"
"Because I'm here.
Stephanie Perkins
#21. Hattie's children died in the order in which they were born: first Philadelphia, then Jubilee.
Ayana Mathis
#22. Mom says,'What are you going to do when it's time to go to college?' I choose not to think about that yet. That is years away. For now, I just watn things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.
~pg 16; Hattie on change
Ann M. Martin
#23. It's a sweet thing, faith. With it, you can handle any circumstance, any crisis, because you know God always has your back. And when God is for you, who can be against you? Nobody. As my Aunt Hattie says, "One and God are a majority."
Patti LaBelle
#24. Well, before writing became all-consuming, I was a quilter, like Hattie and Perilee. I don't do that anymore, but I do knit, garden and watch the birds in my backyard. I also take lots of walks, do yoga and talk my husband into taking me out to dinner as often as possible.
Kirby Larson
#25. You ought to go now before she wakes up, Hattie said. She handed her daughter to Pearl. I'm in the floor, she thought.
Ayana Mathis
#26. All of them
Hattie and Willie and Evelyn and even ruined, crazy Walter
were little lights; sparks flying upward in dark places, trying to stay alight though they were compelled toward ash. They were nearly extinguished one moment, then orange and luminous the next.
Ayana Mathis
#27. At last, her mother and sisters exited the station and came to stand next to her. "Mama," Hattie said. "I'll never go back. Never.
Ayana Mathis
#28. Only you would ask. All anyone has to do is look in your eyes to see your heart shining through, and it's a warm heart, to boot. I think Hattie has made the perfect choice
Chloe felt as if she'd just gotten a telephone hug.
Catherine Anderson
#29. I couldn't stand to be a fool a second time,' Hattie said. 'I couldn't stand it.
Ayana Mathis
#30. The butterflies were still alive in the Mason jar. August turned to her and said, "We gon' make it through, Hattie." She snatched the jar from the table and hurled it at the wall behind August. The two of them watched the butterflies, stunned and struggling in the broken glass.O
Ayana Mathis
#31. But she was gone, and Hattie wanted to give her babies names that weren't already chiseled on a headstone in the family plots in Georgia, so she gave them names of promise and of hope, reaching forward names, not looking back ones. The
Ayana Mathis
#32. When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!
Hattie McDaniel
#33. I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, I'll hit a brick wall and need to sleep.
Hattie Morahan
#34. As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.
Hattie McDaniel
#35. The medicalization of American life from birth to death is killing our souls.
Hattie Bryant
#36. I heard David Sedaris read live recently which was a complete delight. Few writers make me laugh out loud on the bus. He does.
Hattie Morahan
#37. Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
Hattie McDaniel
#38. What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.
Hattie McDaniel
#40. Throughout my life, I've known that if I change my hair, if I change my look, people I know will blank me in the street.
Hattie Morahan
#41. The world moves fast, and so do the bees. Can we find the stillness to see them?
Hattie Ellis
#42. We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
Hattie McDaniel
#44. I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.
Ann M. Martin
#46. Always remember this: There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump.
Hattie McDaniel
#48. It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.
Hattie McDaniel
#49. I became hooked on 'In Treatment,' which was so finely written and performed. Such a simple idea, and yet it delved into very complex territory with real grace and humanity.
Hattie Morahan
#50. I'm sure my mum was a huge influence on my wanting to be an actress: just seeing her doing it, seeing her love it, caring about it. Invest in something, take it seriously and be so wonderful.
Hattie Morahan
#53. I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.
Hattie McDaniel
#54. I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do and what it means to be human.
Hattie Morahan
#56. It's true: theatre has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I always liked everything about it. As a child, I used to get so excited about performing, I'd get the giggles.
Hattie Morahan
#57. What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual.
Hattie Morahan
#58. I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.
Hattie McDaniel
#59. The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.
Hattie McDaniel
#60. I don't think, I will ever actually climb to the top of the ladder, as I am always adding more rungs.
Hattie Carnegie
#61. I've had so many experiences where everyone is very polite about each other's working process, which can lead to work where everyone seems to be in different plays.
Hattie Morahan
#62. I'm halfway through Patti Smith's memoir 'Just Kids,' which is heart-stoppingly vivid. It drips with beauty and hope and devastating candour. I don't want it to end.
Hattie Morahan
#63. Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.
Hattie Morahan
#64. I've obviously got one of those faces that people can forget.
Hattie Morahan
#66. I love the virtuosity and imaginative chutzpah of 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and not just because my boyfriend is in it!
Hattie Morahan
#67. I would definitely say I'm a feminist. To me, it just means being attentive and mindful. It's about equality and equal treatment. It feels like a gut instinct.
Hattie Morahan
#68. My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them. I like them to be simple ... to move well, to move with the times and a little ahead of the times.
Hattie Carnegie
#69. In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.
Hattie McDaniel
#70. Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.
Hattie Morahan
#71. I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.
Hattie McDaniel
#72. I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have.
Hattie Morahan
#73. When you're young and starting out, the big hurdle is to relax enough in rehearsal so that you don't feel intimidated. The more work you've done, the more you can experiment in rehearsal and not have to worry about getting the sack.
Hattie Morahan
#74. I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.
Hattie McDaniel
#75. Cate Blanchett and Eileen Atkins are definitely among my top five actresses whose work I aspire to.
Hattie Morahan
#76. I've had three husbands, but my real romance is my work.
Hattie Carnegie
#78. For a long time, I did feel aware that I wasn't pretty or bubbly enough. Nor was I sexy-looking.
Hattie Morahan
#79. My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
Hattie McDaniel
#80. She had been with her share of schemers and men who were forever building castles in the sky. All of those dreams made out of clouds; when it rained - and it always did - they were left with nothing but the soggy shirts on their backs.
Ayana Mathis
#81. Why should I complain about making $7,000 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one.
Hattie McDaniel
#82. Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor ... help us keep our balance.
Hattie McDaniel
#83. There's a pressure to conform to particular images, and it feels a pretty exclusive pool of body image or facial image that is considered appealing. And in a way, that feels like pre-judging what an audience might actually want.
Hattie Morahan
#84. To show the American woman herself off to best advantage - that has always been my aim and that is my real biography.
Hattie Carnegie
#85. The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman.
Hattie McDaniel
#86. Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had.
Hattie McDaniel
#87. Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
Hattie McDaniel
#88. That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it.
Hattie McDaniel
#89. When I was 8 years old, I knew what I was going to be - an actress.
Hattie McDaniel
#91. I'm just interested in things that move me and make me think, make me laugh.
Hattie Morahan
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