Scacchi Quotes

#1. Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

Greta Scacchi

#2. The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

Luke Davies

#3. Im more keen on the person Im involved with showing me his commitment rather than going through a marriage to display commitment to the world.

Greta Scacchi

#4. I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely.

Greta Scacchi

#5. I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

Greta Scacchi

#6. My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

Greta Scacchi

#7. I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.

Greta Scacchi

#8. I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

Greta Scacchi

#9. Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.

Greta Scacchi

#10. I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

Greta Scacchi

#11. They're putting cement dust into cattle feed to make the cows heavier; the FDA knows all about it.

Dick Dale

#12. I want to come across as a positive person.

Greta Scacchi

#13. With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

Greta Scacchi

#14. On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

Greta Scacchi

#15. I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.

Greta Scacchi

#16. The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up.

Greta Scacchi

#17. Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions, yet different in their intelligence; that is their nature-given vitality.

Xunzi

#18. A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

Greta Scacchi

#19. I always knew it was going to be difficult when I got beyong 40, but I didn't realise it would start at 35.

Greta Scacchi

#20. The weapons of a true Warrior of Light are compassion and patience to wait for others to learn what he learned

Ivan Figueroa-Otero

#21. Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.

Greta Scacchi

#22. America acknowledged the greatness of Confucius through a trio of ancient lawgivers - Moses flanked by Confucius to his right and Solon on his left - on the monument to "Justice, the Guardian of Liberty" displayed on the eastern pediment of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.

Patrick Mendis

#23. Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.

Greta Scacchi

#24. It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race from whatever burden or oppression they may unjustly labor under.

Benjamin Banneker

#25. I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

Greta Scacchi

#26. I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

Greta Scacchi

#27. The success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

Ellis Peters

#28. In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.

Greta Scacchi

#29. I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

Greta Scacchi

#30. Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.

Greta Scacchi

#31. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

Peter Singer

#32. It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.

Greta Scacchi

#33. You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.

Greta Scacchi