Mildred Pierce Quotes

#1. We may mean nothing to time, but to each other we are kings and queens, and the world is a wild benevolent garden filled with chance meetings and unexplained departures. Magda

Simon Van Booy

#2. By creating compelling content, you can become a celebrity.

Paul Gillin

#3. I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich.

Suzan-Lori Parks

#4. The question should be who do we want to be when we grow up, not what.

Craig Stone

#5. Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.

Kate Winslet

#6. The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).

Manny Farber

#7. The key is not to figure out what the best people are doing and try to emulate it - rather, figure out what causes people and companies to be successful.

Clayton Christensen

#8. We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

Frances Wright

#9. I did my first nude scene in Mildred Pierce, and that was absolutely terrifying, but it was for an important part of the film and for a reason, and it's incredibly powerful. It's not gratuitous. I think the stuff they show on MTV is so much worse.

Evan Rachel Wood

#10. It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.

Wallace Stevens

#11. Purpose of life give away to vision, vision creates dream, and dreams become reality.

Charley Sweeney

#12. The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

Isaac Newton

#13. It was never a plan to be an actor.

Mads Mikkelsen

#14. I love the 'Mildred Pierce' miniseries.

Ben Bass

#15. He was enthusiastic about everything, but when she came in with the pie he grew positively lyrical.

James M. Cain

#16. If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have a sneaking regard for "Mildred Pierce", but the others do nothing for me.

Joan Crawford

#17. It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.

Susan Hampshire

#18. Eating disorder sufferers cannot be told to 'pull themselves together', to 'stop doing that' or to 'just eat'.

Lynn Crilly

#19. I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

Brian May

#20. At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something.

Joshua Greenberg