Westfeldt Quotes

#1. Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is.You are open to life.

Eckhart Tolle

#2. Don't be too afraid of failure to learn what you need to learn.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#3. The part that I felt most comfortable with going in was just working with actors and trying to make them feel comfortable and safe so they could find the performance. That part felt organic to me.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#4. I read a zombie story, and I have nightmares for days. But my youngest sister loves zombie stories. So when she insisted it was time for Bards and Sages to put together a zombie book, I couldn't tell her 'no.'

Julie Ann Dawson

#5. With any independent film, it's all about getting everyone's schedules in line and everything together at the same time and just doing the best you can do when that happens - if it happens.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#6. All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#8. When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.

Richard Roeper

#9. Now is the moment to live fully, and live in happiness. If there is no happiness today, how can you expect to be happy tomorrow?

Satish Kumar

#10. I always cry at weddings; they're beautiful, and I'm always moved.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#11. I think film is collaboration, and I always want to hear everyone's input.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#12. The saddest and strangest part of Hollywood to me is the fact that millions of dollars are spent on developing works that never get made. It doesn't make any sense to me. I don't understand it.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#13. Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#14. The hardest thing is never what you think it's going to be.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#15. It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring,

Jennifer Westfeldt

#16. As an actor on sets, I've always clocked how hard the crew works, how much longer their days are, how much lesser their glory is - and the fact that their commitment to the work and project is unwavering, no matter the budget.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#17. There's no honor in that. Only a coward would kill her that way; I want everything she has. I want her to want to fight with every breath of her body. Mechelle Tortured Soul

Kyra Gates

#18. People in theatre work harder than anyone in the world - as far as I'm concerned - as far as sheer output of energy and the rigor and excellence that they maintain doing something every day, or twice a day.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#19. I think women should support each other's work, encourage each other's work, help develop each other's voices and I think, ultimately, when we can stop having the conversation about 'women filmmakers', and just talk about 'filmmakers', then we'll know we've really gotten somewhere.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#20. I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#21. I'm not a parent yet, but I feel like a kid needs to be loved.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#22. I'm pretty much honest to a fault. It's my best and my worst quality.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#23. I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#24. I think we all learn by doing rather than thinking about doing.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#25. I guess what I learned about myself is I'm a bit of a socialist; I want everyone on the set to get equal treatment and credit.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#26. Our forms of government - though both cast in the democratic pattern - are greatly different. Indeed, sometimes it appears that many of our misunderstandings spring from an imperfect knowledge on the part of both of us of the dissimilarities in our forms of government.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#27. My mom and my stepdad are both therapists.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#28. Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to be.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#29. Dogs just need you and love, that's all.

Jennifer Westfeldt