Just Quotes

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

I still don't really think about acting that much. I just do it.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

Theater is just so much more satisfying than film or television just because you deliver the whole thing from start to finish in one evening, and you can tell if people have enjoyed it or not. That's great to do every night to go in front of a full room of people and tell the story. There's nothing like that really.

One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

I would just love once to be called sexy. Just because it would make me something other than cute.

It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.

When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.