Susan Olsen Quotes

#1. As a child, I was always playing some generic child.

Susan Olsen

#2. A saying, since a saying arises always from the mouths of adults when a person was just a listening child, was supposed to carry you back there, like a magic trick or a scrap of a story, or something with something else still sticking to it.

Sebastian Barry

#3. What I am not," he says, most truthfully, "that for me is God

Will Durant

#4. Thank you for making a web site for me. I was so surprised when I found it.

Susan Olsen

#5. If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.

Susan Olsen

#6. I'm quite good at not writing.

Ian McEwan

#7. I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.

Susan Olsen

#8. The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

Michael Polanyi

#9. In a way I guess I'd be a bad judge of what it was like because it just seemed perfectly normal to me.

Susan Olsen

#10. I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves.

Susan Olsen

#11. As a little kid, I suppose I was a little weird.

Susan Olsen

#12. I'm not really an actress type. I'm an entertainer.

Susan Olsen

#13. Stories change the world.

A.D. Posey

#14. It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.

Thomas Huxley

#15. Lady Madelyne had sealed her own fate. She'd warmed his feet.

Julie Garwood

#16. My Gram said that I would get the role in whichever show God thought was right but it wouldn't hurt to express a preference. I told her that I would like to do 'The Brady Bunch' because I'd have five other kids on the set to play with. God was listening.

Susan Olsen

#17. First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason for that was that I could control all the steps.

Pipilotti Rist

#18. You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.

Susan Olsen

#19. These days kids get paid enough that they probably don't need to work too much. The problem is when the person is old enough that they need to work to make a living, and the only thing that they know how to do is what they are already washed up in.

Susan Olsen

#20. In the end, I realized that I just didn't like acting enough to put up with the stereotype and I didn't really think I was good enough to transcend it.

Susan Olsen

#21. I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. 'The Brady Bunch' was an answer to a prayer.

Susan Olsen

#22. It's a funny thing no matter who you are when you purchase a flower or a plant, the first thing you ask is how do I keep this plant and keep it growing beautiful. People need the same concern.

Maxine Powell

#23. In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adventures of disabled children, travellers and gipsies, LGBT teens, different cultures, classes, colours, religions. It shouldn't be a token gesture, nor do such stories need to be 'issue-based'.

Malorie Blackman

#24. I think in order to have eternal life, you have to have a soul, and the soul of the show is that we all really did love each other. I think that really came across.

Susan Olsen

#25. My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces.

Schuyler Fisk

#26. I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bunch reunion.

Susan Olsen

#27. It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.

Tony La Russa