Murino O Quotes

#1. It was in England that I discovered theatre. I didn't have any money, but I would just eat yoghurt in order to get some money for tickets.

Caterina Murino

#2. I love all the shoe shops in Covent Garden. Laura Lee Jewellery on Monmouth Street for delicate gold jewellery. Every time I get a part in an English movie, I buy myself a piece of jewellery from there.

Caterina Murino

#3. Isn't that what intimacy so often is? Supposing you understand, conveying that you do, because you feel in theory that you could understand, and you want to, and yet secretly you don't?

Rachel Kushner

#4. I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am lucky that I have such a good image of family life - my father and mother are still in love, still happy.

Caterina Murino

#5. I'd be damned if I let him see the tears in my eyes.

Jennifer Estep

#6. Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at both ends of human life span the bond between human and dog speaks with an insistent clarity - if we have the ears to hear.

Marjorie Garber

#7. My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.

Caterina Murino

#8. Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

Shirley Jackson

#9. I don't go back home to Sardinia as much as I would like, just for Christmas and family events.

Caterina Murino

#10. My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and they weren't very happy at the idea of me choosing acting as a career. Everyone in my family went to university - my older brother is a lawyer - but when they saw me for the first time at the theatre, they thought, 'OK.' They like it very much now.

Caterina Murino

#11. The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#12. I do have ambition - I can dress up for a premiere, get in a limousine, but it's not my life. My life is wearing jeans and tennis shoes and travelling on the metro. I have to do that because otherwise my acting is going to be false.

Caterina Murino

#13. The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is

Andy Warhol

#14. Regrettably, people today don't watch many programs that actually teach people how to cook, so I agreed to do a competitive show that I think will provide inspiration.

Ron Ben-Israel

#15. I never met a man who wasn't stupider than me.

Andrea Dworkin

#16. Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.

Caterina Murino

#17. The people in New York want to achieve something; the people in L.A., they just want to achieve success.

Zach Galligan

#18. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. I actually didn't always want to be an actor.

Jack Kilmer

#20. Beauty is a fragile and vulnerable quality, and moreover one that is difficult to achieve; ugliness, by contrast, is unbreakable and invulnerable, and very easy to achieve.

Roger Kimball

#21. I never download anything; it's crazy! We must keep buying albums and DVDs.

Caterina Murino

#22. Modelling was not very satisfying for me. I came to London to model, and I fell in love with the theatre. I was eating yoghurt every day so that I had the money to go to the theatre. I saw everything. It's still my dream to be on stage in London.

Caterina Murino

#23. Unlike Etsy, which is all handmade, we print and ship the products, not the designers. We relieve the designer from having to make and ship everything, package it, and provide customer service. All the designer has to do is submit art and keep doing what they love doing.

Mariam Naficy

#24. If they're forced into a challenge they don't feel prepared for, they may even engage in what psychologists call "self-handicapping": deliberately doing things that will hamper their performance in order to give themselves an excuse for not doing well.

Megan McArdle

#25. In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.

Che Guevara