Helmond Quotes

#1. I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.

Katherine Helmond

#2. Some people experience rare moments when everything they believe is challenged. Or at least shaken up. Those moments stay with them. Surprise, real surprise, is an exotic thing not soon forgotten.

Gregory Miller

#3. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse, applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.

George Orwell

#4. A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny.'

Katherine Helmond

#5. I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.

Katherine Helmond

#6. We should resume our language to science
and leave the rest to silence

Natasha Tsakos

#7. I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.

Katherine Helmond

#8. Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.

Ellen Hopkins

#9. Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable.

Katherine Helmond

#10. The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

G.K. Chesterton

#11. I was very lucky with 'Soap' and 'Who's the Boss,' which was great fun, and then went on 'Coach' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond.' I've been truly blessed, and the work has all been fun and a joy.

Katherine Helmond

#12. I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in.

Hugo Weaving

#13. I like to exercise in the morning before work. It puts me in a good mood, which makes my coworkers happy, and jump-starts my brain, which makes me happy.

Betsy Beers

#14. Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I want with it and that's usually more interesting for an actor.

Katherine Helmond

#15. Remarks are not literature.

Gertrude Stein

#16. I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.

Katherine Helmond

#17. Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.

Nick Cave

#18. I'd really like to show women my age - who've had children grow up or lost husbands or retired after working all their lives - that there are options. There are choices. We don't have to just sit around and be invisible.

Katherine Helmond

#19. Disconnect from anything and everything electronic.

Austin Kleon

#20. Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.

Lisa Kleypas

#21. Many men have children, but not many children have 'Fathers'. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills

Fela Durotoye

#22. I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

Andrew Young

#23. I'm not massively into computers. I'm a fan of Macs because they're more user friendly, so I'm used to using them.

Matthew Kane