Perrette Quotes

#1. Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years.

Pauley Perrette

#2. I hated high school and got to college and realized they didn't care if I showed up because I'd already paid. So I decided, 'I'm going to turn this around.' And I did: I got straight A's and was named 'outstanding senior.'

Pauley Perrette

#3. People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage.

Michael Leunig

#4. I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.

Pauley Perrette

#5. The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.

Pauley Perrette

#6. I love working with new directors. There's so much drive and effort. It still comes down to the character for me, but if it's a character I really want to play, I would never not do the project because of a new director.

Pauley Perrette

#7. Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be.

Pauley Perrette

#8. You know, Manetto, since I was a child I've always felt something else was among us. Invisible spirits that could guide or at least influence our actions. Perhaps they're the ones that stop us from changing, that make us repeat the same mistakes generation after generation.

Livio Gambarini

#9. In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.

Pauley Perrette

#10. I feel the closest to crazy when I'm disagreeing with the voice in my head

Mira Grant

#11. [M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

George Washington

#12. But the smoking is very frustrating. Who knows where it will go; where the story will go; where the character will go? There's still lots of options.

Neil Marshall

#13. I did not grow up watching much TV and film. I had a very, very, very, very, very, very church family, and a lot of, like, secular stuff was not around my house.

Pauley Perrette

#14. I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.

Pauley Perrette

#15. had a vocation to concentrate upon: loving and serving God.

Glenn Cooper

#16. In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.

Pauley Perrette

#17. My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

Pauley Perrette

#18. I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

Pauley Perrette

#19. I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.

Pauley Perrette

#20. It was always good to know that things in the field really were the way the officers had said they'd be, if only because this so rarely turned out to be the case.

Django Wexler

#21. When I was little, I think that I wanted Superman to be my boyfriend.

Pauley Perrette

#22. A true work of art is shaped by the hands of another, and if in shaping us that 'other' is anything other than God, the piece will never touch the remotest periphery of its potential.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. Love is for friends & pets ... and family ... only if they really love you as unconditionally as your friends and pets.

Pauley Perrette

#24. If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.

Rumi

#25. My absolute favorite movie of all time is Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' Nothing compares to it. I have seen it thousands of times and still watch it every few weeks.

Pauley Perrette

#26. And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my brothers more?
I love you like the little bird
That picks up crumbs around the door.

William Blake

#27. Don't be offended by your lack of purity. Purity is a seed that will grow and develop.

Frederick Lenz

#28. My life is about being a civil rights activist. That's my life. Whoever you are, everyone, we either have civil rights or we don't. It's for everyone.

Pauley Perrette

#29. I'm super-obsessed with law enforcement. I'm what you'd call a 'cop fan.'

Pauley Perrette

#30. I like having black hair. When I was really young, I wanted to be Asian - Asian hair is beautiful. I also wanted to look like the girl in George Michael's 'Father Figure' video.

Pauley Perrette

#31. Love is a big word. I believe in Love. I believe that God is Love.

Pauley Perrette

#32. When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa - it goes on and on.

Pauley Perrette

#33. I'll never love one more than the other.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#34. Only he who is free with his time is free with his opinion.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#35. I believe that what is legislated bleeds down into everything. So if the legislation continues to uphold anything that doesn't support equal rights and civil rights, that bleeds down into Matthew Shepard being murdered.

Pauley Perrette