Top 32 Wiedlin Quotes
#1. Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.
Rob Sheffield
#3. I find acting slightly nerve racking, but I like the challenge.
Jane Wiedlin
#4. When I was 15, I never thought I'd live to see 21. And then I became 21, and I'm like, 'I'll never live to see 30.'
Jane Wiedlin
#5. Sometimes when you get old, you get a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
Jane Wiedlin
#6. People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt.
Jane Wiedlin
#7. So often we operate from ideas of love that don't fit our reality.
Sharon Salzberg
#8. Sometimes I would write something that was so private, people would say, 'Make it more universal.' I never liked that idea. I always thought the more personal a song was, the more people would want to hear it.
Jane Wiedlin
#9. It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.
Jane Wiedlin
#10. I'm not a big guy anyway. I'm only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for 'Batman,' 179 for 'Warrior.' Films make you look big.
Tom Hardy
#11. I try to make everything I write a little bit different. Those songs that go, 'I love you so much and you love me,' they're boring. If I'm going to write a love song, it's going to be a little bit tortuous.
Jane Wiedlin
#12. She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#13. I used to think when I was in the Go-Go's that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.
Jane Wiedlin
#14. I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.
Jane Wiedlin
#15. I did the co-writing thing all through the '90s and I got one hit out of it - a Keith Urban song called 'But For The Grace Of God' - but then I got burnt out.
Jane Wiedlin
#16. The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
William Cowper
#17. I'm not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people. Ultimately, I just have to do what I like to do.
Jane Wiedlin
#18. A lot of comic conventions go way beyond comic books and include other parts of pop culture, like celebrities and science fiction and movies and books. So I go to them either as a celebrity, or as a fan, because I'm a big sci-fi geek.
Jane Wiedlin
#19. I started in theater. I did theater professionally for seven years with my company before I started doing 'Friends.' I was waiting tables and doing theater.
David Schwimmer
#20. If I was in charge, I'd keep doing The Go-Go's forever, but it's a band, so everyone has their say.
Jane Wiedlin
#21. I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music.
Jane Wiedlin
#22. It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.
Jane Wiedlin
#23. I personally know women who are Breast Cancer survivors and will do all I can to support the cause. Besides, I love boobies!
Jane Wiedlin
#24. I love being a Go-Go. It definitely has its ups and downs, and we have a very intense energy with each other.
Jane Wiedlin
#25. The whole idea that someone should not be able to marry who they love based on their gender and their preference is ridiculous.
Jane Wiedlin
#26. I dream my poems
and write my dreams.
We can only write our own dreams,
not the dreams of others,
for our dreams speak from our hearts.
For those who do not dream poems,
how can they know what dreams
their hearts want to write?
Jeffrey A. White
#27. Believe me, I've totally blown any kind of so-called reputation I may have had. I really don't care. I think that's one of the joys of getting older; you just stop caring about things like that.
Jane Wiedlin
#28. I don't think you would want to see all five Go-Go's naked - I think we would be scary.
Jane Wiedlin
#29. It's too heart-wrenching doing the solo thing. I throw myself into it and get so excited, and then 2000 people buy it and you're, like, 'Oh. I guess it's not that good after all.'
Jane Wiedlin
#30. If I believed in Hell, I'd definitely be going there.
Jane Wiedlin
#32. What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.
Jane Wiedlin
