Riva Quotes

#1. When I was in high school, my uncle, who went to the races quite a bit, got me interested. Then when I went to college at Southern Illinois University, just a few hours from Louisville, we used to go to the Kentucky Derby, and I got to see Secretariat and Riva Ridge win.

Kenny Troutt

#2. Clothes should be practical. I like the concept of easy wear. I think [86-year-old] actress Emmanuelle Riva was extremely chic. She's super stylish. At the Cesars, she was wearing this beautiful red silk dress. I don't know whose it was.

Christophe Lemaitre

#3. As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.

Matt Gonzalez

#4. Imagination and reality have little in common

Emmanuelle Riva

#5. Ashryver eyes.
The fairest eyes, from legends old
of brightest, ringed with gold.

Sarah J. Maas

#6. These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#7. If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

Thornton Wilder

#8. I've never wanted to be a star, never.

Emmanuelle Riva

#9. Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, and we cling to it.

Emmanuelle Riva

#10. Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.

Gary Ryan Blair

#11. If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK.

Emmanuelle Riva

#12. God didn't give us minds to be able to understand everything. That's part of the mystery. Now, you can drive yourself crazy tryin' to understand something you were never meant to figure out down here, or you can just trust Him 'til He's ready to let you in on it. 'Til then, just enjoy the mystery.

Renee Riva

#13. In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

Emmanuelle Riva

#14. We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.

Miguel Ruiz

#15. Try and be at the vanguard at least three times in your life - to make a positive difference for others.

Peter Riva

#16. An inverse operation multiplies to such a degree what concerns our welfare and divides by such a formidable figure what does not concern it, that the death of millions of unknown people hardly affects us more unpleasantly than a draught.

Marcel Proust

#17. How is it possible, as you get to know someone better, to realize how good his past is at not letting you find out anything more about him?

Angelos Michalopoulos

#18. I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for a living. It's not easy to explain the job of the television journalist, especially when a lot of my friends' dads had jobs that were a lot easier to explain, like a lawyer, a banker or a doctor.

Allison Williams

#19. I read 'The Rum Diary,' and I didn't really like it very much.

Bruce Robinson

#20. nobody likes to be made out to be morons, especially morons.

Jim Riva

#21. If I'm talking to you, I can't see you, but I can see inside of you and what you're thinking. That's a mixed blessing.

The Mighty Hannibal

#22. I love life. I love life to death.

Emmanuelle Riva

#23. Acting makes you live plenty of lives.

Emmanuelle Riva

#24. He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum.

Leo Buscaglia

#25. When asked where God is, people point towards the sky or some far and distant region: no wonder then that He does not manifest Himself! Realize that He is in you, with you, behind you, and all around you; and He can be seen and felt everywhere.

Sathya Sai Baba

#26. It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly.

Emmanuelle Riva