Shannyn Sossamon Quotes

#1. I got followed by the paparazzi because they thought I was Shannyn Sossamon.

Torrey DeVitto

#2. In every take, that you're not sure of what they're going to cut and paste together and what the arc or the purpose or the intention of your character's journey will be in the story. You don't have control. Sometimes that's wonderful, and sometimes that can be scary.

Shannyn Sossamon

#3. A group simply announcing a caliphate, is not enough to establish a caliphate,

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

#4. But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.

Shannyn Sossamon

#5. You and I were meant to be together, even if we weren't meant to be happy.

Stacey T. Hunt

#6. I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

Shannyn Sossamon

#7. I'm reading and trying to find a television show that I really like, so I can start really working again and gain some momentum.

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#8. I think the emotional toolbox I have is healthy for an actor, as far as the intensity of emotions go. It's other things I have to hone. I can swim in that comfortably.

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#9. I see in my friends that don't have kids, when they come over, and the amount of times our conversation gets interrupted by my children. It's almost jarring.

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#10. I'm a little bit more of a relaxed, lazy mother.

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#11. Susan Boyle having a meltdown is not controversial. It's human for a 48-year-old recluse to get a little wigged out when she finds herself on the world stage overnight.

Shawn Amos

#12. Someone pays me a hundred bucks every Tuesday to DJ. I don't think I'll ever give that up.

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#13. Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing.

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#14. Fifteen years ago, France was the promised land of cooking. So I looked at a map, found five restaurants and faxed them to ask for a job. Within five minutes, I got a reply from the then three- star Le Jardin des Sens in Montpellier.

Rene Redzepi

#15. I'm a film doll. But I'm enjoying it. So I'm gonna keep doing it.

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#16. I was very soft. I gained a lot of weight with my second child and was very on the couch. And [me manager ] said, "You know, this is a softer role [in Misteress]. She is a softer character. She's a lesbian that's always the passive half of the relationship."

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#17. Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie.

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#18. In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#19. I like your heart, Seamus." She cups my cheek, kisses me softly on the corner of my mouth, and whispers, "My heart really likes your heart.

Kim Holden

#20. They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.

Antonio Porchia

#21. I did short film with Damian Lewis from Homeland, that was a really incredible experience. He's one of the best actors I've ever worked with. Even though that's a short film for Jaguar that's really, in essence, a commercial, it didn't feel like it, at all.

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#22. It's become like an urban myth. I don't know her. I don't know anybody she knows. I was standing there at the party by myself for an hour and then I left. Once I got those auditions, I worked really hard. Nobody did me any favors.

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#23. I'm really enjoying being an actor right now, at this point in my life. It's a great job, it's a huge responsibility, and I just want to do it more.

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#24. I was always interested in doing it, but I was so content with my life that I didn't really go after it.

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#25. When I sign on to a television show [Mistresses], I have to love that show and character so much, but this was in and out, for seven episodes. And it was nice to be able to make some money again because I hadn't work in a year and a half. There were a lot of pluses.

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#26. I really want to keep at it until I find out what I'm capable of.

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#27. I was more wishy-washy in the first 12 years of my career, just because that was my personality.

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#28. I'm still thanking all the stars, one by one.

Marissa Meyer

#29. You know when there's someone new on the rise and there's too much hype? I didn't want that to be me.

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#30. Supporting a family and financial necessity aside, what I want is to read it and just have that feeling in your chest that you know you need to do it and you understand how you could get there, even if it scares you.

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#31. Chinatown is tremendously interesting ... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.

S.J. Rozan

#32. We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). WE can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail-period!

Carl T. Rowan

#33. It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

Wallace Stevens

#34. I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying.

Shannyn Sossamon

#35. I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.

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#36. If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy ... people who don't have no food ... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.

B.B. King

#37. If money is the only plus, I will always say no. But, if there's more, than I'm down.

Shannyn Sossamon