Top 100 Kirkland's Quotes
#1. 'The Leaves Are Fading' had something of a vogue when Antony Tudor made it in 1975, largely because of Gelsey Kirkland's ravishing performance.
Robert Gottlieb
#2. I did photograph Angelina Jolie up in Vancouver when she was making 'Life Or Something Like It', and they gave me the drawings they wanted me to photograph of her up there, but she didn't really care for them that much, and ultimately they weren't even used.
Douglas Kirkland
#3. Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.
Gelsey Kirkland
#4. If Christians had ever been brave enough to make Christ alive, nobody would now be saying that Christianity is dead.
Winifred Kirkland
#5. I am The Alien From Another Dimension. Your world screams out for my domination! And if you get in my way ... I will sweep you and your insignificant species aside!
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#7. We live in a reasonable world which tells us the incredible is impossible.
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#8. The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
Lane Kirkland
#9. A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.
Sally Kirkland
#10. Respect and mutual respect are important. I, for instance, often show my latest work so that people can see how I work.
Douglas Kirkland
#12. I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country.
Sally Kirkland
#13. A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.
Nick Mancuso
#15. I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.
Sally Kirkland
#16. Some People..If you could buy them for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth ... You would never have to worry about money again.
Tim Kirkland
#17. You ready?" Evan asks, and he's looking at me, and I love his hair, I love his smile, I lo
"I Love You," I say, and as I watch his smile bloom I finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean.
Elizabeth Scott
#18. It's fundamental to succeed in coming into contact with your subject. Whether it's a big Hollywood star or a passer-by in the street, it makes no difference.
Douglas Kirkland
#21. I watched Question Time on BBC1 last night and I've come to the conclusion this country needs more unemployed politicians.
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#22. I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.
Sally Kirkland
#23. The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming from my room.
Gelsey Kirkland
#24. I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.
Sally Kirkland
#25. I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
Sally Kirkland
#26. Mum repeated the old adage that money can't buy you everything ... before adding that she prefers using credit cards instead.
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#27. I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
Sally Kirkland
#28. Chanel is everywhere. Pick up a magazine. You'll find Chanel all over it. That's the imprint that she had. I mean, she did so much.
Douglas Kirkland
#29. Even officers who don't approve of your lifestyle choices would still take you as backup over Kirkland, or most anyone else. They'd say how you're bad for shaking up with vampires and wereleopards, but in a firefight they'd take your vampire-loving, furry-fucking ass over most anyone else's.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#30. Samuel Johnson said a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience, Kirkland said.
Mary Jo Putney
#31. I'll photograph weddings, friends - I'm not too good for anything.
Douglas Kirkland
#32. I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart.
Eddie Kirkland
#33. I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.
Douglas Kirkland
#34. We have come too far, - struggled too long, - sacrificed too much and have too much left to do, - to allow that which we have achieved for the good of all to be swept away without a fight. And we have not forgotten how to fight.
Lane Kirkland
#35. I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way.
Gelsey Kirkland
#36. Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.
Gelsey Kirkland
#37. I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
Sally Kirkland
#38. I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
Sally Kirkland
#39. If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
Lane Kirkland
#40. I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.
Sally Kirkland
#41. My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl.
Sally Kirkland
#43. You must adapt to the situation. This is where the pictures come from.
Douglas Kirkland
#44. She was damaged because she had no one, and he was damaged because neither did he.
J.D. Kirkland
#45. Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it.
Winifred Kirkland
#46. The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.
Gelsey Kirkland
#47. Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
Lane Kirkland
#48. When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', their career skyrocketed. As a photographer, you were very empowered; people came to you, bowing to you and what you represented.
Douglas Kirkland
#50. My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
Sally Kirkland
#51. He knew his parents were liars. He'd known since the day he'd found his brother's dead body stuffed inside a suitcase.
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#52. When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.
Gelsey Kirkland
#53. So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.
Sally Kirkland
#54. I will refine somebody in a minor way, but I don't want to totally change them. I don't want them to look like plastic dolls.
Douglas Kirkland
#56. If you lay a finger on our pirates again, I'm going to kick your ass!
Hidekaz Himaruya
#57. As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.
Gelsey Kirkland
#60. Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
Sally Kirkland
#61. The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.
Lane Kirkland
#63. Within the holy circle of the stage, geometrical principles are used to organize physical energy so that the beauty of the human form reveals a web of drama and truth---that is the essence of dance as I have come to know it.
Gelsey Kirkland
#64. I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.
Douglas Kirkland
#65. The generosity of the poor, she thought, wasn't rare, just rarely noticed.
Rainy Kirkland
#66. Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.
Lane Kirkland
#67. I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
Sally Kirkland
#68. The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.
Lane Kirkland
#69. I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them.
Douglas Kirkland
#71. Chanel is here forever. She changed fashion, she changed culture, and she changed how people dress.
Douglas Kirkland
#72. As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.
Gelsey Kirkland
#73. Actually I brought a friend for you to meet." Ruby looked over at Kate. "Is she going on vacation here?" Kate smiled and stepped closer. "I wish I could go on vacation," she said easily. "But actually I
Kirkland, Rainy
#74. I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time.
Sally Kirkland
#75. Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by.
Winifred Kirkland
#76. My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
Sally Kirkland
#77. When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.
Sally Kirkland
#78. If it feels good saying it. It's probably not a good thing to say.
Tim Kirkland
#79. Hasn't everyone taken a nervous breakdown at some point? Maybe I suffered a nervous breakthrough. I don't know what to
think. It echoes inside your skull.
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#80. We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.
Lane Kirkland
#81. I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning.
Gelsey Kirkland
#82. To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
Lane Kirkland
#83. I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.
Sally Kirkland
#84. I don't want to get rich. I just want to play my music for the people.
Eddie Kirkland
#85. In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.
Gelsey Kirkland
#86. So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
Sally Kirkland
#87. Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.
Sally Kirkland
#88. Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.
Douglas Kirkland
#89. The first year with ABT I learned 13 new roles. Most were lengthy ballets, more complicated than I was used to. I have suffered from tendinitis since I was 13, and it flared up again until the pain was paralyzing. There were times I prayed I'd be sick so I wouldn't have to go on.
Gelsey Kirkland
#90. The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.
Lane Kirkland
#91. My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
Sally Kirkland
#92. Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest.
Robert Gottlieb
#93. Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.
Sally Kirkland
#94. I felt the heat of the fire and heard the screams. I needed to use moisturiser for days afterwards.
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#95. The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement.
Douglas Kirkland
#96. You're breathing the same air as a bunch of pill-popping manic depressives, alcoholics, and schizophrenics. You've been drinking tea with a bunch of crazy teenage washouts. It seems I'm the only sane one here.
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#97. I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.
Sally Kirkland
#98. I always considered, with every shoot, I was on trial; every time I pick up my camera and start out on the relationship, I am at degree zero. There is no coasting.
Douglas Kirkland
#99. The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.
Sally Kirkland
#100. You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel, the lighter you'll look.
Gelsey Kirkland
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