Piper Laurie Quotes

#1. One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.

Piper Laurie

#2. I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

Piper Laurie

#3. Then she said, with mock horror, "She's going to bring some of her old wigs, if you can believe it." She rubbed her bare head with her free hand. "I'll look like a zombie Margaret Thatcher.

Patrick Ness

#4. I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.

Piper Laurie

#5. And even then when you take it, you've got to take it with your whole heart.

Piper Laurie

#6. Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.

Piper Laurie

#7. If spirituality is the sense of awe and humility in the face of the creation, what could be more awesome and humbling than the deep space discovered by Hubble and the cosmologists, and the deep time discovered by Darwin and the evolutionists.

Michael Shermer

#8. Ale: Are you manipulating me again? T.C.: Try not to fall for it. I dare you.

Steve Kluger

#9. And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

Piper Laurie

#10. A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them ...

Jane Porter

#11. It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.

Piper Laurie

#12. I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

Piper Laurie

#13. If I had stayed in Hollywood, I would have killed myself. Or someone would have done it for me

Piper Laurie

#14. Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. I've always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.

Piper Laurie

#16. I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid.

Piper Laurie

#17. Jack: For Christ's sake, it wasn't like I was on vacation. I've been in Iowa, in cornfield hell!
Keely: Did you just say you got cornholed in Iowa?

Lorelei James

#18. Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.

Piper Laurie

#19. In the northern hemisphere, always dressing according to the season: bare arms in spring (however cold it is) and woolen jacket in winter (however hot it is).

Paulo Coelho

#20. The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.

Piper Laurie