Mary Badham Quotes

#1. The real cost of something is what you must give up in order to get it, which is almost always more than just cash.

Charles Wheelan

#2. Come on people! Somebody disagree with me! How can we learn anything if no one will disagree?" Rabbi Stern

Athol Dickson

#3. I didn't know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper. I was totally ignorant of all that stuff. I never went to the movies, didn't know anything about the movies.

Mary Badham

#4. I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.

Mary Badham

#5. If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.

Mary Badham

#6. My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

Mary Badham

#7. Most of the performances I see on TV and in movies are so self-conscious and overacted. I would think a natural actress would be welcome.

Mary Badham

#8. I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff.

Ryan Reynolds

#9. I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the coolest of the really dorky kids.

Matthew Perry

#10. You people who go in for being consistent have just as many moods as others have. The only difference is that your moods are rather meaningless.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Worry is an intrusion into God's providence.

John Haggai

#12. I wasn't a child who wanted to be an actor.

Mary Badham

#13. Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.

Elizabeth Rodriguez

#14. Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.

William Feather

#15. When I retired, I was at an in-between age. I wasn't a child anymore, I wasn't really a woman yet, and they weren't really writing scripts for that age.

Mary Badham

#16. The supreme truth is that nothing ever is born.

Gaudapada

#17. None of us is smarter than all of us.

Jim Rohn

#18. But nothing really clicked for me until I gave up completely on hitting the overlap and just did what I loved, even when I thought nobody else in the world would be interested.

Steven Pressfield

#19. I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it.

Richard Helms

#20. I was very much a tomboy. I've always been rather outspoken, headstrong, and I'm pretty much that way to this day.

Mary Badham

#21. In 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was just playing and having a good time.

Mary Badham

#22. The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly.

Nelson Mandela

#23. When you have an entire amphitheatre of people laughing that way, it makes you feel so funny and it frees you to go further than you probably would.

Kelly Ripa

#24. That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have a strong male role model.

Mary Badham

#25. The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

Salman Rushdie

#26. I know that I wouldn't mind going back to work if I could find the right script and the right crew to work with.

Mary Badham