Monica Raymund Quotes

#1. Unfortunately, as much as I am gullible, I also hate lying. I tend to tell the truth a lot ... lying just isn't worth it. But I think I'm guilty of telling people that I'm 5 minutes away when really I'm about 45 or an hour away.

Monica Raymund

#2. I love 'Top Chef.'

Monica Raymund

#3. There is nothing more noble than putting yourself in the line of fire to save a life.

Monica Raymund

#4. When I'm not working or promoting something, I try to be as under-the-radar as I can .

Scarlett Johansson

#5. Lie to Me' is one of the smartest shows on TV. We have something different, unique and new to say to the audience that they're not going to get from any other show.

Monica Raymund

#6. I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

Monica Raymund

#7. Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

Monica Raymund

#8. Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.

Monica Raymund

#9. Performing is my passion. Being onstage is at once exhilarating, beguiling, and fulfilling. But it's hard.

Monica Raymund

#10. Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

Monica Raymund

#11. I have a lot of things I want to do. I have a lot of fire. I want to do film. I want to do action movies. I want to do period pieces.

Monica Raymund

#12. We need a science to save us from science.

Bertrand Russell

#13. Doing well in school was a cool thing to do when I was in high school, so I had a blast.

Monica Raymund

#14. It was just a different kind of battle, one he'd have to learn to win

Cinda Williams Chima

#15. I love Brooklyn; it's a part of who you are.

Paul Dano

#16. I read that a lot of people think I'm gay. I don't care. My boyfriend and I are not really phased by what people say.

Monica Raymund

#17. If I'm not working, I'm either sleeping or preparing for the next day of work.

Monica Raymund

#18. Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice ... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

Monica Raymund

#19. I sing a bit and play guitar.

Jesse Metcalfe

#20. Reality is not made of dreams, until you make them real.

Soar

#21. If you tell me that the sky is red, I will look up.

Monica Raymund

#22. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change.

Monica Raymund

#23. I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Monica Raymund

#24. I know it sounds silly, but it takes some time getting used to all the cameras in your face. I think it's like playing jazz. After I learn the rules, I can have fun and play a little bit.

Monica Raymund

#25. I mean, we're ninjas."
"Well maybe you're a ninja," I said
"You're just a really loud, awkward ninja," Margo said, "but we are both ninjas.

John Green

#26. Race, to me, is a very blurry thing.

Monica Raymund

#27. He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.

George D. Prentice

#28. You don't go on bended-knee to petition the official culture for your rights. You have to take them.

Terence McKenna

#29. The love, support, and respect the members of the theater community have for one another is unparalleled. Say what you want about us wacky drama-types, but one thing that makes our business special is our loyalty, our fierce commitment to one another, and our mutual respect.

Monica Raymund

#30. Basically, I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don't have a lot of scope, and I'm really picky about what I wear. Even if it's weird, it's very particular to me. And you can't make a business out of what I would wear. We'd be out of business.

Marc Jacobs

#31. Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

Monica Raymund

#32. One thing my parents always taught me was to maximize my options.

Monica Raymund

#33. She feels like someone has planted a tree in her chest and then pressed fast foward on the world, branches growing and twisting and pushing her apart from the inside.

Carrie Ryan

#34. The avocado is native to the Mexican state of Puebla, which helps explain why it's so popular in Mexican cooking.

Marcus Samuelsson