Joyce Dewitt Quotes

#1. People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt.

Jane Wiedlin

#2. Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

Joyce DeWitt

#3. Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.

Sun Ra

#4. Every once in a while in an actor's life, a cast comes together.

Joyce DeWitt

#5. I really felt that 'Three's Company' was a gift. When it ended, I had money in the bank and had the luxury to pursue a life that meant something, to learn and discover.

Joyce DeWitt

#6. The most tenacious universal language in the world is love.

Paulo Coelho

#7. Is there a chance?
A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel?
A reason to fight?
Is there a chance you may change your mind?
Or are we ashes and wine?

A Fine Frenzy

#8. Does it bother me that I'm attached to 'Three's Company' 30 years after? Not at all. All we were trying to do was be funny. How can I complain? That's all I wanted to do.

Joyce DeWitt

#9. I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

Felicity Kendal

#10. I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together with tight writing and performances. Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do this.

Joyce DeWitt

#11. There is no lack in the world. The lack is in you , and if you will stop seeking lack and stop thinking lack ... you will make marvelous demonstrations.

Al Koran

#12. I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.

Joyce DeWitt

#13. instead of being in history he was in love

Mal Peet

#14. Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.

Joyce DeWitt

#15. If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore.

Joyce DeWitt

#16. When you decide you're going to join a project, it's all about the gift you're giving the audience.

Joyce DeWitt

#17. I'm happy about who and what I am - and I can't wait to find out who I'll be tomorrow.

Joyce DeWitt

#18. I have a passion to do theater.

Amy Irving

#19. Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.

Joyce DeWitt

#20. One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don't know if it's true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that's a fantasy you can't make up.

Joyce DeWitt

#21. I reckon I probably worked for Euripides a long time ago. I do think we have many Earth walks and it's possible that he's an old friend. Does that sound too stupid for words? Quite frankly I think I've been an actor in so many lifetimes.

Joyce DeWitt

#22. Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this is often a most unfortunate and repulsive beginning.

Michael Leunig

#23. People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it's in part because I'm Italian so I'm emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.

Joyce DeWitt

#24. Movies don't create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative.

Skeet Ulrich

#25. Hollywood is a very interesting place to deal with. And having been a theatre person, I was quite surprised by the slipperiness of some people in Holly-weird. There was a part of me that just said, 'If this is the way the game is played, I'm not sure I want to play it.'

Joyce DeWitt