Rigby Quotes

#1. I couldn't do 'Eleanor Rigby' because it was clashing with another project - something I was going to go do - something with Liv Ullmann.

Joel Edgerton

#2. A lot of people have a particular song that, no matter their mood, turns them on. With me, it's Eleanor Rigby.

Dana Gould

#3. Carol's life seemed sad in an Eleanor Rigby kind of way.

Una Tiers

#4. If you don't know who Eleanor Rigby is, you probably were born after 1985 and need to listen to some real music.

George Takei

#5. I worked with Kathy Rigby, and it's a concept called 'Peter Perry': it's all of Katy Perry's songs telling the story of Peter Pan. Kathy was so sweet, and it was such a cool experience to meet her and work with her and use the set that I had watched on television for so many years.

Todrick Hall

#6. I think I initially started inventing characters in my songs because I didn't want to write directly about myself. Also, as a kid, I loved all the character names in Beatles songs, like Eleanor Rigby and Lovely Rita and Mean Mr. Mustard and Maxwell and Rocky Raccoon.

Adam Schlesinger

#7. In my fiction, there's a lot that's borrowed from music. It's never like I'm taking a lyric, but more the mood of a particular song. 'The Boy Detective Fails' was like listening to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles, this very melancholy-but-poppy song.

Joe Meno

#8. It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about "Eleanor Rigby." It's true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#9. Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

Cathy Rigby

#10. I've been on 'Hollyoaks' since I was 15, and I've grown up on the show. I'm so very fortunate to be given the opportunity to learn my craft in such a fantastic environment.

Emma Rigby

#11. I have three dogs and a cockatoo.

Cathy Rigby

#12. There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Cathy Rigby

#13. I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and I'm really interested in politics.

Emma Rigby

#14. It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

Cathy Rigby

#15. Our athletes are our heroes.

Cathy Rigby

#16. When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal social development, and your decisions are made for you.

Cathy Rigby

#17. You see your peers weighing 80 pounds and you think, 'Oh, my God, I've got to be 80 pounds or I'll fail.'

Cathy Rigby

#18. Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.

Cathy Rigby

#19. So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.

Cathy Rigby

#20. I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?'

Cathy Rigby

#21. There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

Cathy Rigby

#22. I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

Cathy Rigby

#23. My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised. She brought me home, and I wouldn't stop dancing.

Emma Rigby

#24. I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

Cathy Rigby

#25. I will jump into most any role.

Cathy Rigby

#26. I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you.

Cathy Rigby

#27. Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

Cathy Rigby

#28. When you're in a soap, it's fantastic, and I'm really grateful for the fans who watch you and support you. For me, it was the best experience because I was able to act every day and work with so many different directors and get some great storylines and learn on-screen.

Emma Rigby

#29. I love gritty drama. I'm passionate about films and drama that make you think - hard-hitting, gravelly characters.

Emma Rigby

#30. In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.

Cathy Rigby

#31. The thing I received from Girl Scouts more than anything else was a sense of real teamwork and working for the community, helping others, and it was not competitive. I remember working as a group to achieve a goal or to help the community. There was a great sense of accomplishment in that.

Cathy Rigby

#32. I've always been a performer. I love doing impressions of people and being the clown.

Emma Rigby

#33. caused everyone to look

Adam Rigby

#34. I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

Cathy Rigby

#35. Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.

Cathy Rigby

#36. Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

Cathy Rigby

#37. I just like to act.

Cathy Rigby

#38. I never realized until recently how much my life parallels Peter Pan.

Cathy Rigby

#39. It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

Cathy Rigby

#40. An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

Cathy Rigby