Playing Victims Quotes

#1. I had a confident expectation that things would come round and be all square.

Charles Dickens

#2. A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.

John Edensor Littlewood

#3. What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. They are characters. It's so refreshing. They're playing different kinds of characters, and they aren't being typecast.

Madhuri Dixit

#4. Normally, I'm so shy.

Jessica Simpson

#5. To be a good writer ... read a lot and write every day.

Neil Gaiman

#6. You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

Gary Ross

#7. Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.

Kate Christensen

#8. When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.

Kim Cattrall

#9. One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.

James Taylor

#10. Know in self that in giving a helpful influence, the magnifying of virtues in others and the minimizing of faults is the beginning of wisdom in dealing with others.

Edgar Cayce

#11. As long as we as a society continue to belittle and dismiss women's accounts, disbelieve and question their stories, and blame them for their own assaults, we are playing right into the hands of those who silence victims by asking: "who would believe you anyways?".

Laura Bates

#12. We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan.

Shaukat Aziz

#13. I remember how it felt when he put the ring on my finger. It was beyond words.
But nothing could've ever prepared me for how it feels to put a ring on his finger.

Cassie Mae

#14. Well you know when people around you treat you like a child and pay no attention to the things you say you have to do something.

Lynette Fromme

#15. People on a mission are unstoppable. God bless them for it. It would be a poorer, more miserable world without them.

Gerald Nicosia

#16. I'm not looking for a husband or marriage or not not looking for that stuff. I'm living, not thinking what I should or shouldn't be doing with my life.

Cameron Diaz

#17. I realized then that it was a game we were playing; from the very beginning. But we weren't playing the same game and when it came down to it, he wasn't playing by the rules.

Jessica Marie Gilliland

#18. Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics?

Gloria Steinem

#19. I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood.

Beverly Cleary

#20. The best thing a person can be is of-some-use.

Julianna Margulies

#21. My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right?

Tyne Daly