Top 100 Lesley's Quotes
#1. Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails.
Lesley M.M. Blume
#2. Everyone's mind was their own. You absolutely cannot change them.
Lesley Howarth
#3. That's why I like babies. They're like beginnings we don't have?
Lesley Howarth
#4. I can do anything. Anything at all. That's the trouble.
Lesley Howarth
#5. I got invited to what's called the Gifting Suite in Toronto. I had the day off, so I thought I'd go and see what's what. You come out laden with wonderful stuff. Apparently, if you go to the Oscars, you get given things like iPads. Not that I'm in it for the swag.
Lesley Manville
#6. I knew there had to be more to honor than just one's station in life. That's what Sorcha had taught me: that actions meant more than accolades. That honor was something worth fighting for- and dying for- no matter what house you were born into.
Lesley Livingston
#7. You have to be really willing to embrace life and life's turns, and play that for your audience, because there is value in every moment of that journey.
Lesley Ann Warren
#8. It would never occur to me not to look dreadful if that's the job description.
Lesley Manville
#9. A samurai never worries about losing his life. He worries about losing his honour. Being shamed is far worse than losing your life. A samurai is always ready to die - for his lord, for his honour. That's the samurai way
Lesley Downer
#10. Oh, there's so much ego with men; in their head, they can't possibly think about Tesco's when they are doing Othello. Er, why not? They want to think that they are such geniuses they can't muddy their day with domesticity, and I've got no truck with it whatsoever.
Lesley Manville
#11. One night I saw them kissing at a party, so I kissed some other guy. Johnny jumped up and hit him, cause he still loved me, that's why.
Lesley Gore
#12. [Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.
Jonathan Capehart
#13. Nobody told me love was warm. Such warmth - I seemed to remember it, it seemed like something forgotten by me since I was born. All the fires are here, and the warmth of my mother's bed long ago and the deep heat of the sun.
Lesley Lokko
#14. Hemingway's talent was so outsized, that I feel like I can forgive him a lot of his trespasses to have achieved what he did achieve.
Lesley M.M. Blume
#15. Well. I think it's safe to say that, in my absence, the power grabbing and backstabbing and political intrigue has officially reached an all-time Otherworld high.
Lesley Livingston
#16. It's war. Don't leave anything behind for your enemy to use. Scorch the earth, kill the cattle, foul the water.
Lesley Livingston
#17. Everybody knows if it's on the Internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it.
Lesley Stahl
#18. Apparently something nasty happened to him in the woodshed when he was a child and subsequently he's always been emotionally fragile.' Cat stood up and slammed her fist on the table.
Lesley Truffle
#19. It's my party and I'll cry if I want to.
Lesley Gore
#20. I think that in many ways, gays are behind women and behind blacks, as far as rights go. But I always say, if you know one of us, it's hard to hate us.
Lesley Gore
#21. You have to find yourself. When you meet him again, you have to know who you are. He's finding out who he is.
Lesley Lokko
#22. You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.
Lesley Gore
#23. I think the record industry, by and large what's left of it, is still totally homophobic. I think it's much less so in the film industry now, but the record industry, it's always been a man's world.
Lesley Gore
#24. When I told him about Jordan, out flashed pictures of his grandkids. This was how I was introduced to the secret society of grans. We're instant compatriots. If you want to break the ice with someone who's in the society, all you have to do is ask, "So how old is yours?
Lesley Stahl
#25. I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New directions? Interesting. Great insights? Over-ambitious. A glimpse here and there? Perfect.
Lesley Hazleton
#26. As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door.
Lesley Gore
#27. When I wake up in the morning, and I go to the piano, and there's a blank sheet of paper in front of me, by the end of the day, that could be a gold mine. You really do need to wake up and expect that the world is your oyster because it very well may be.
Lesley Gore
#28. I'm a musical person, and that's what I want my life to be about.
Lesley Gore
#29. At the drop of a hat, people will say there are no roles for women after 40. It's there with a bunch of other rules I'm not interested in.
Lesley Nicol
#30. So how do you know when the boy's perfect for you?' Dulcie asked
Betty gave her a tender look. 'You'll just know. That sounds vague, I know, but it's true.
Lesley Pearse
#31. In more metaphysical terms, it becomes a safe place in which one sleeps, dreams, and grows before emerging back into the world. Either way, it's a place not merely of shelter, but of incubation.
Lesley Hazleton
#32. Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, everything that's wonderful, Is sure to come your way
Lesley Gore
#33. And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.
Lesley Gore
#34. How she has held her shit together and clawed her way back to becoming a functioning human being again, I will never know. I couldn't have done it, but she did, and with the help of Cam, she's in a good place.
Lesley Jones
#35. Charlie didn't want to give up meat and smoking. Now he's gone.
Lesley Stahl
#37. There are always two sides to every story, Kelley. Something I learned playing Richard the Third and Macbeth: if you're playing the 'bad guy', you never really think of yourself as bad. It's just that your motives are often ... misunderstood by everyone else.
Lesley Livingston
#38. My story isn't beautiful or tragic. It's just another story about a cursed girl living a shitty life.
Lesley Anne Cowan
#39. I'm still here, Ash. I can justify and explain my actions, but Maca's not and I'll never do that to him.
Lesley Jones
#40. And that's what got me to the piano, that's what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and a hope to have something by the end of the day.
Lesley Gore
#41. I wouldn't go so far as to make 'You Don't Own Me' a tango or 'It's My Party' a hip-hop thing. Believe me, those things have been suggested to me. But I thought if I could stay true to the song, the arrangements would work. I'm really enjoying singing them.
Lesley Gore
#42. I know from vast experience that fear talks a lot louder than courage. I need to listen to that other voice inside me, that faint one that's struggling to be heard.
Lesley Kagen
#43. A friend of mine rang the box office to collect a ticket I'd reserved for her, and the girl said, 'Who's Lesley Manville?'
Lesley Manville
#44. I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to be at home, looking after my son. There was never any question about that. Alfie and I are dead close. I can't bear it when he's away.
Lesley Manville
#45. Freedom. Sometimes it isn't what you thought it was when you wanted it to start with. When you can do anything you want, choosing's not easy.
Lesley Howarth
#46. Now, tomorrow you got to put on a happy face, not for me, nor May, or anyone else, just for yourself. 'Cause that's a magic trick I learned a long time ago, if you look like you're happy, you soon get to be.
Lesley Pearse
#47. I still sing, but completely for my own pleasure. I play a nightclub singer in 'Sparkle,' but I'd like to pursue it a bit more. I sang at a friend's 60th at Claridge's the other month; I did 'Baby It's Cold Outside' with the actor Hilton McRae, and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow.'
Lesley Manville
#48. I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins.
Lesley Howarth
#49. You can't choose someone else's destiny for them, Kelley. And you shouldn't let anyone choose yours.
Lesley Livingston
#50. I have a bit of a problem with 'American Idol.' Forgive me, but it's difficult for me to watch. I can't help but think of people being exploited. On the other hand, I'm really enjoying 'Glee.'
Lesley Gore
#51. I would be the master of my own fate. Me and the goddess Morrigan. No one else- and certainly no man. Mael and Aeddan could fight over me until they were both bloody. My father could deny me my blade. But they couldn't force me from my warrior's path unless I let them.
Lesley Livingston
#52. If You Don't Believe in You, No One Else Can What's fun in life is knowing you're not good at something and then making yourself good at it. - Lesley Stahl
Susan Wilson Solovic
#53. If I go away, I take a little picture of my son. It's in a frame with a speaker, and he recorded a birthday message for me when he was nine or 10. I can't listen to it without filling up.
Lesley Manville
#54. It's not just about young people - there are films being made that deal with women getting older. That's a huge bonus, and here in America, that's a huge step forward.
Lesley Manville
#55. There's no one else. There never was. It's still only ever you.
Lesley Jones
#56. I am convinced there's a gramma gene that disables the word "no.
Lesley Stahl
#57. I took a cookery course. On the examination, I had to cook a cheese omelet with peas and an egg custard. With the egg custard, which was supposed to be a dessert, I forget to put the sugar in, so that's more of a quiche, isn't it?
Lesley Nicol
#58. I've listened to Eminem rap. That's not daily fare for me, but I can't help but admire how vivid what he does is. My own taste goes a little more toward Norah Jones.
Lesley Gore
#59. He can't die! He's the bloody King of Winter."
"Don't be absurd," said Bob, rolling an eye at the wounded Janus. "Just because he's immortal doesn't mean he can't die!
Lesley Livingston
#60. Beauty can help fill the cracks in people's hearts and comfort their souls." There
Lesley Kagen
#61. Hemingway is a baby when he turns up in Paris, but he's an ambitious baby. And he has the talent. And he's there to stage his breakthrough. So many of the expats who were there at that time were there to do precisely that. It was an ambition-fueled town.
Lesley M.M. Blume
#62. As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.
Lesley Nicol
#63. I'm very lucky to have a husband who cooks, for a start. It's a good partnership. I met him through a friend, and we just hit it off.
Lesley Nicol
#64. You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit.
Lesley Gore
#65. It's all tied up with what's inside you. Head and heart, mind and
soul. Who you are and what you want-that's what fuels it. That's what
shapes it.
Lesley Livingston
#66. Please," he said, "you don't understand. My first time on my won. I don't know what I'm doing, and I can't have it on me, and I don't know what's right when you know you can choose and it's turned out fine today, how do you do?
Lesley Howarth
#68. Given that there was that era of girl group music and it's still very popular, but I think if you looked at the chart from that time you would see many more men on it. Because the industry, they were catering to young girls. I mean, that's what they thought their audience was.
Lesley Gore
#69. I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.
Lesley Stahl
#70. Be brave, gladiatrix, he said, And be wary. Bright things beget treachery. Beautiful things breed envy. Once you win Caesar's love, you'll earn his enemies' hate.
Lesley Livingston
#71. Hollywood ... that's not going to be my niche at all. If anyone is going wants to work with me, I would think it's going to be independent films. I'm not 22!
Lesley Manville
#72. Rome only exists because of slaves. That's how it functions. We are its muscles, its brains, and most of all its secrets.
Lesley Livingston
#73. Since I've turned 50, I've had the best roles of my life, and I've got married. Everyone said that wasn't possible because there are no men, but I've done it. I think it's just going to get better.
Lesley Nicol
#74. I'm sorry I made you cry, it's the last thing I would ever want to do....Unless it's out loud....during a moment of passion
Lesley Jones
#75. I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world.
Lesley Ann Warren
#76. Visiting a show that's already established can be a bit daunting, as they've been a family already, and you're the newbie.
Lesley Nicol
#77. People say, 'I know you, don't I?' And they expect me to say I know them from their daughter's school or something - they can't place me. And I love that. Long may it last.
Lesley Manville
#78. Yes. And also, if it's okay by you, I'd like to shut up now ... Or possibly just go somewhere and swallow my face.
Lesley Livingston
#79. The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.
Lesley Manville
#80. When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.
Lesley Manville
#81. Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for the show we're doing at Joe's Pub, so it's kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we're going to do them.
Lesley Gore
#82. I think it's designed to flower open like a Chocolate Orange."
Me and Lesley then had to explain Terry's Chocolate Orange to Nightingale.
"Not unlike a practitioner's hand opening to reveal a werelight," said Nightingale.
"Not unlike at all," I said. Yeah, exactly like that I thought.
Ben Aaronovitch
#83. I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing.
Lesley Nicol
#84. I've got two older sisters who I'm very close to. And my son's grown up with a big sense of family around him.
Lesley Manville
#85. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?
Lesley Stahl
#86. My husband is a martial artist, and he thinks it's hilarious that I have a stage-fighting-proficiency certificate. He thinks that's ridiculous. Can't say I've used it much.
Lesley Nicol
#87. Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness.
Lesley Ann Warren
#88. There isn't a spare minute in the day. I have spent my life doing everything. I work. I go home. I do the shopping. I cook. Then there's the laundry and the dog. Most of my life, I have been a working mother. And even when I wasn't, I still did it all.
Lesley Manville
#89. I have been invited to do something called 'Celebrity MasterChef' in England, which, of course, I can't do. It's complete nonsense. You have to be a decent cook to begin with. I'd be the joke one.
Lesley Nicol
#90. The glow of delicioous tension coudn't be faked, not at any price. So when you leave, that's when you realise you've been living in a lie.
Lesley Lokko
#91. Believe me, Kelley. If I'm not ... it's because I'm already dead." He stroked her hair, and she could feel his breath warm on her forehead, like a kiss. "Because anyone that would seek to hurt you would have to kill me first.
Lesley Livingston
#92. You can't do anything about the past, it's done and can't be mended. But the future is different, if you just think what you really want and reach out and take it.
Lesley Pearse
#93. Nobody can get at your heart once it's lying six feet under.
Lesley Kagen
#94. I thought you said you dislocated Selene's shoulder!"" Sonny called to Cait, who'd tumbled for safety into the black water behind the stern of the boat.
""I did! I guess someone elserelocated it!"" she shouted back.
Lesley Livingston
#95. He's been banned,' said Lesley. 'Until he passes the advanced driver's course.' 'Is that because you crashed that ambulance into the river?' asked Abigail.
Ben Aaronovitch
#96. If I've learned anything in this business, how stupid would it be not to do 'It's My Party' when people come to hear it?
Lesley Gore
#97. Even though I'm still torn about the way I dealt with Mama's disappearance and more than likely will meet my Maker, being so, I am dreadfully certain about one thing. First impressions? They can be dead wrong.
Lesley Kagen
#98. What kept me going through all the years? More than anything, the love of and respect for competition. That's what it comes down to for me. That's why I do this.
Lesley Visser
#99. One of the Sunday newspapers asked me to make my favorite dish, and they photographed me holding it in the kitchen. It was roasted salmon with roasted vegetables. That's not cooking; that's putting things in a pan. It looked quite nice, but I'm not saying it was good.
Lesley Nicol
#100. We've been together a long fucking time, babe. What's past is past.
Lesley Jones
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