Top 57 Thelma Quotes
#1. When I got the script for Thelma & Louise, when I met with the director, Ridley Scott, I said, "I don't want to do a revenge film. I'm not interested in doing that moment in the script after they shoot the truck, where it says they jump up and down and they're real happy about it".
Susan Sarandon
#2. Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques.
Calvin Trillin
#3. My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.
Albert Brooks
#4. He's a man," Themla said.
"I guess that explains it."
"Hairy, Neanderthalic," Thelma said, "perpetually half-crazed from excessive levels of testosterone, plagued by racial memories of the lost glory of mammoth-hunting expeditions - they're all alike.
Dean Koontz
#5. I'm obsessed with 'Thelma and Louise,' and therefore obsessed with Callie Khouri who wrote that movie.
Connie Britton
#6. I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute.
Pink
#7. I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that's the one I'd be interested in redoing.
Viola Davis
#8. I don't need to sow any damn oats. What are you two, the supernatural version of Thelma and Louise?" "Hardly," Talia scoffed. "This car is a classic. No way would I drive it off a cliff.
A.E. Jones
#9. He loved Thelma, Jonathan said, he had never loved anyone but Thelma, he had loved Thelma for nineteen years and would always love her even though Thelma didn't give a rat's ass about him and never had.
Nora Ephron
#10. My favorite duo since Thelma and Louise. They got chops, heart, and soul stirring harmonies.
David Massengill
#11. It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.
Robin Quivers
#12. I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in a million years would make 'Thelma and Louise' right now. But there's so many other kinds of movies they won't make right now.
Callie Khouri
#13. I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.
Callie Khouri
#15. One thing about 'Thelma & Louise' we can't forget: Brad Pitt. Oh, yes.
Kristan Higgins
#16. I didn't want to be ordinary," I mumbled.
My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?"
"You know. Someone you forget."
From the other room came the squeals of children. Miss Thelma turned her chin to the sound. She smiled,"That's what keeps me from being forgotten.
Mitch Albom
#17. When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.
Callie Khouri
#18. Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.
Deb Caletti
#19. I grew up watching Scooby Doo and Thelma was my favourite character.
MyAnna Buring
#20. Michael Powell always used to say 'I'm a typical Englishman'. He was and he wasn't. He was very cosmopolitan and spent a lot of time in Europe.
Thelma Schoonmaker
#21. Tailor your space to your needs. In one closet, I have upper and lower rods for skirts, pants and tops. The second is all shelves for bags and linens. In the third, there's just one rod for suits and dresses. To hang evening gowns, I use hooks on the ceiling.
Thelma Golden
#22. I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.
Thelma Golden
#23. There is only one option in Iraq: that we win.
Thelma Drake
#24. What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.
Thelma Drake
#25. It's great, the number of people that I'm reaching through the Internet - I've done some wonderful interviews - but I miss touching the bodies. I miss shaking hands, looking into people's faces and saying, 'Hello, how are you doing? Thank you for playing my music.'
Thelma Houston
#26. Emeric [Pressburger] was completely cosmopolitan. That's what makes their [with Michael Powell] films so special. Neither of them thought twice about making a film about a friendship between an Englishman and a German during the Blitz. They were genius.
Thelma Schoonmaker
#27. God does not always heal us instantly the way we think. He is not a jack-in-the-box God. But God is walking with me through this.
Thelma Wells
#28. The day I decided I didn't want to be a 19th-Century European curator, I knew I would never have the experience of people coming and going 'ooh' and 'aah,' the way they do around the Monets. It just doesn't happen.
Thelma Golden
#29. For me, though, the miracle stories written about Jesus in the four Gospels came alive in my spirit. They
Thelma Gilbert
#30. Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.
Thelma Harper
#32. We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy.
Thelma Drake
#33. [Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's killing people because he can't get the right shot. It's an example of what film-makers are like.
Thelma Schoonmaker
#34. When I met with Peter Angell, the producer of the CD, we talked about my idea to do songs that I loved and songs that I wished I had recorded. Peter suggested that we pick some songs and see how they work with you and try to come up with arrangements and ideas about how you might want to do them.
Thelma Houston
#35. Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it.
Thelma Ritter
#36. The privilege I've had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works ... but what I've discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition - to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk and speak to each other.
Thelma Golden
#37. Like a lady who has lost weight and she's just getting to that point where she can fit into that favourite dress, you get the film down to just about the right cut. You can feel it when it happens.
Thelma Schoonmaker
#38. I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.
Thelma Golden
#39. Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.
Thelma Ritter
#40. I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.
Thelma Houston
#41. Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course.
Thelma Drake
#42. One always needs an alternate plan, a back door, a saddled pony waiting in the alley for a quick escape, perhaps a friend to hold it, perhaps not." The
Thelma Adams
#43. I read the script just once, and then forget it.I just deal with what I see every day on the screen and whetherI believe it and understand it.
Thelma Schoonmaker
#44. Well, we're not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here.
Callie Khouri
#45. An exhibition is in many ways a series of conversations. Between the artist and viewer, curator and viewer, and between the works of art themselves. It clicks when an exhibition feels like it has answered some questions, and raised even more.
Thelma Golden
#46. When I joined, I was one of the first artists to sign on to the Motown West label when they opened their first studio in California. At the studio, you'd run into Stevie Wonder, you'd run into Marvin Gaye ... it was very special.
Thelma Houston
#47. I found that in such a small, polarized society, taking sides meant you were actively rejecting others, animating opposition.
Thelma Adams
#48. When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.
Thelma Ritter
#49. Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he designed his own house, it was always with bright colours. Very un-English!
Thelma Schoonmaker
#50. As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl.
Thelma Ritter
#51. Jack Cardiff - the greatest cameraman who ever worked in colour - was a lab boy to start with so he knew Technicolor from the inside out.
Thelma Schoonmaker
#52. I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.
Thelma Golden
#53. If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.
Thelma Ritter
#55. We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq.
Thelma Drake
#56. I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years.
Thelma Houston
#57. As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.
Thelma Golden
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