Portillo Quotes

#1. When we face the worst that can happen in any situation, we grow. When circumstances are at their worst, we can find our best.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#2. Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

Ninon De L'Enclos

#3. I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.

Alber Elbaz

#4. Work hard in the day; as hard as you can even if no one is watching you! Work harder in the night; as harder as if everyone's eyes are on you.

Israelmore Ayivor

#5. Rain knows the earth and loves it well, for rain is the passion of the earth.

Estela Portillo Trambley

#6. Communication can be sent or received through verbal or nonverbal cues.

Asa Don Brown

#7. It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.

D.W. Griffith

#8. I will say what I want to say. I had some homosexual experiences as a young person.

Michael Portillo

#9. Success does not chase after you; you have to chase after it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.

Anne Hathaway

#11. The nouvelle cuisine of anarchy. Barium nitrate in a sauce of sulfur and garnished with charcoal. That's your basic gunpowder. Bon appetit.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. As counterintuitive as it seems, generosity begins wherever you are. It is important to make generosity a priority.

Andy Stanley

#13. The present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.

Estela Portillo Trambley

#14. The disease of debt has reached the top. And once it reaches the top it has no-where else to go.

Michael Portillo

#15. Age-appropriate makeup? Who are you people? What makeup is age-appropriate for a seven-year-old?

Kami Garcia

#16. I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.

Taylor Schilling

#17. The smell of rain is rich with life.

Estela Portillo Trambley

#18. If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits.

Michael Portillo

#19. I don't think longevity gets enough credit when you're talking about a player.

Paul Coffey