Jane Quotes

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.

I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics.

I feel it's like being a kid and dressing up, because that's what Baby Jane is.

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.

I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it.

I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, 'Oh, Lord. I'm never going to be Jane Austen in a film now!' 'Cause that's what I'd really like to do.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I felt I had had my run - I had done Jane's and I wasn't particularly interested in music anymore.

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.

Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?

Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.

The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.

You know who helped me a lot? Jane Fonda. She said, Look at how many times I've been up and I've been down. So don't worry about anything.

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time.

I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

I feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn't have crafty pop songs where it sort of didn't matter who played them because they're just really great songs.

It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.

I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.