Having Quotes

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.

Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.

Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.

You're saying 'will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having.' If it does, so be it.

I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.

Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.

At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I'm having a lovely time.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.

I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.

To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go.

To finally get that call from the doctor that you're pregnant and you're having a baby.... It was just another world.

I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy.

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.