Top 77 Quotes About Electra: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Electra

#1. There is something bad here, growing. Day and night I watch it. Growing. - Sophocles, Electra

#2. Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and 'Electra Heart' is my response to that. It is a frank album.

Marina And The Diamonds

#3. I studied classics, and I find it mystifying that we had Medea and Electra and Antigone and all these amazing characters, and they don't really exist in cinema now. The only person who's really doing it, and he gets loads of criticism for it, is Lars Von Trier.

Alice Lowe

#4. Electra Gates would never concern herself with how much lard should be in pie dough, I thought; but then, I was not Electra Gates. I wanted pie, something that didn't seem to interest romantic heroines.

Sharon Pywell

#5. Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

Simone Weil

#6. Voice-cry. Agony
the spoken "word" exploded, blown to bits by suffering and anger, demolishing discourse: this is how she has always been heard before, ever since the time when masculine society began to push her offstage, expulsing her, plundering her. Ever since Medea, ever since Electra.

Helene Cixous

#7. I believe in prophetic speech . . . still. I believe in Cassandra, I believe in Electra and in the charming Antigone. . . . For me, they're more alive than the [Institute for] Intellectual Cooperation and its choice group of old men.

Gabriella Mistral

#8. I think someone like Carmen Electra would be great in 'Peepshow.' Really, though, I think anyone who can sing and dance would be great.

Holly Madison

#9. Charley looked like someone from a Greek play, Electra, or Cassandra. She looked like someone had just set her favorite city on fire.

Kelly Link

#10. If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.

Eve Best

#11. Remember: women may not be too weak
To strike a blow.
-Sophocles, Electra

Anne Fortier

#12. I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she's beautiful.

John Sterling

#13. I HAD known him as a bulldozer, as a samurai, as an android programmed to kill, as Plastic Man and Titanium Man and Matter-Eater Lad, as a Buick Electra, as a Peterbilt truck, and even, for a week, as the Mackinac Bridge, but it was as a werewolf that Timothy Stokes finally went too far.

Michael Chabon

#14. Did you know that when Dave Navarro first met Carmen Electra, rumor has it that he was so taken with her beautiful eyes that he went out and bought over a hundred pairs of sunglasses for her to wear to cover her eyes whenever she left her house so no one would fall in love the way he did?

Samantha Daniels

#15. Honestly, in the beginning, it was really tough. Coming from Cincinnati, Ohio, I was just a girl who had a dream, which was to go to Los Angeles, have a career and to be able to support my family. To have a dream like that and, you know, you're not ready.

Carmen Electra

#16. LAVINIA: I love everything that grows simply
up toward the sun
everything that's straight and strong! I hate what's warped and twists and eats into itself and dies for a lifetime in shadow ...

Eugene O'Neill

#17. People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

Carmen Electra

#18. I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll.

Carmen Electra

#19. I spend a lot of time in American Apparel.

Carmen Electra

#20. I know I'm not perfect.

Carmen Electra

#21. It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take their life away for fashion.

Carmen Electra

#22. I love kids. I just love kids. They put you in a good mood and they are so full of life.

Carmen Electra

#23. No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

Carmen Electra

#24. At 18, I was attracted to bad boys.

Carmen Electra

#25. I hate my stomach. It's impossible to get it flat, and the area around my belly button drives me crazy.

Carmen Electra

#26. I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

Carmen Electra

#27. I have a constant sweet tooth, so I like anything from the bakery, like cupcakes, cookies.

Carmen Electra

#28. Its an honor to be a part of such a legendary group of stars representing Max Factor, such as Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe, ... Im so excited to start working on the campaign.

Carmen Electra

#29. I love a man who has lived a full life and lived on the edge.

Carmen Electra

#30. I just want to entertain.

Carmen Electra

#31. Laughing makes everything easier.

Carmen Electra

#32. There was one part of my life where I would go out every night. Ha-ha, if I missed going out to the club, it was the end of the world. I still like to go out, I love to hear music, I love to dance.

Carmen Electra

#33. My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'

Carmen Electra

#34. I'm not one of those people that has to look myself up every five seconds to see what people are saying. That's been really helpful. I mean, you get thousands of compliments, and then one person will say something negative - and that's all you'll remember, that one person.

Carmen Electra

#35. As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.

Carmen Electra

#36. People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.

Carmen Electra

#37. I'm an eight hours kind of sleeper, so I definitely try to schedule that in.

Carmen Electra

#38. If you are thinking every day, 'I have to get to the gym' and 'I have to lose this weight,' and that's all you think about and you obsess over it, it's not healthy.

Carmen Electra

#39. I can't say whether or not I'll ever get married again, but I'm open to the possibility.

Carmen Electra

#40. If you think about it now, it's kind of ridiculous. All these hot girls on Baywatch in tiny little red bathing suits running around saving lives.

Carmen Electra

#41. Worry and stress is one of the most unhealthiest things. They say that cancer and sickness comes from that, so you know I do my best. There are times that I do feel very stressed, but I do my best to keep it away and get plenty of rest.

Carmen Electra

#42. Am I still interested in a guy's body? Now that I have grown up, I am much more of a 'vibe' kind of person! If a man has a good body, that is an added plus.

Carmen Electra

#43. Everyone has different layers to who they are.

Carmen Electra

#44. LAVINIA: He made me feel for the first time in my life that everything about love could be sweet and natural ... I have a right to love!

Eugene O'Neill

#45. I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.

Carmen Electra

#46. Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date - sharing a romantic meal is so sexy.

Carmen Electra

#47. If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone. When it's right, they'll come to you.

Carmen Electra

#48. With Aerobic Strip Tease, you can do it at home - it makes it easier for women that don't want to go to the gym.

Carmen Electra

#49. For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.

Carmen Electra

#50. I'm more attracted to a stronger man rather than a feminine man. Someone who would just throw me down and take control. I love feeling helpless. I definitely like a man who is aggressive and confident.

Carmen Electra

#51. When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard.

Carmen Electra

#52. I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.

Carmen Electra

#53. A bad boy with a good heart, I think that would be perfect for me.

Carmen Electra

#54. I think it's sexy when someone makes a statement that says, 'This is who I am. This is what I think is sexy.'

Carmen Electra

#55. Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it.

Carmen Electra

#56. I like everything loud, over the top, dramatic.

Carmen Electra

#57. I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.

Carmen Electra

#58. Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

Carmen Electra

#59. LAVINIA: I want to feel love! Love is all beautiful! I never used to know that! I was a fool! We'll be married soon ... We'll make an island for ourselves on land and we'll have children and love them and teach them to love life so that they can never be possessed by hate and death!

Eugene O'Neill

#60. I've chosen jobs that were sexy because I wanted to do them.

Carmen Electra

#61. When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.

Carmen Electra

#62. I think probably anyone would say, the worst and the hardest things to deal with is when people say things that aren't true. Or that are kind of true but exaggerated.

Carmen Electra

#63. One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels.

Carmen Electra

#64. For some interesting reason, I also like a guy who has a littte bit of a belly. I think that's really cute.

Carmen Electra

#65. I love to go get fireworks, even though some of them are illegal.

Carmen Electra

#66. There's moments when I think it's kind of silly and I wish I would've just stayed natural

Carmen Electra

#67. I like to play video games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero.'

Carmen Electra

#68. For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or if I go to a tropical island for work. But otherwise I really don't crave it.

Carmen Electra

#69. I have wanted to have a baby since I was a teenager, but it frightens me. It is much easier to have a dog.

Carmen Electra

#70. It's always great to have a great mascara that makes your lashes look thick and full. That's a definite must have.

Carmen Electra

#71. I have fun when I want to have fun, but I am learning how to balance my life out.

Carmen Electra

#72. I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.

Carmen Electra