Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Fonda

Think of anger as a muscle. The way you express anger isn't the way that I do, or you. If you have a good director, you will find that he's getting you to use an entirely different muscle that you never even knew you had - it's real hard and sore, then after a while it becomes normal. And you discover all these new muscles when you enter a new character - that's what a director does for you.

Jane Fonda

feminism is about ultimate, limitless reality ...

Jane Fonda

Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father--who had to say so--told me I was good. At anything. It was a turning point in my life. I went to bed thinking about acting. I woke up thinking about acting. It was like the roof had come off my life!

Jane Fonda

Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.

Jane Fonda

I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.

Jane Fonda

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Jan Karon

I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

Jamie Chung

The casting directors that were aware of The Real World looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.

Jamie Campbell Bower

Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

Jamie Bell

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

Jamie Foxx

We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard.

Jamie Foxx

I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.

Jamie Drummond

Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality.

Jamie Dimon

You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.

Charles Fillmore

The Inexhaustible Resource of Spirit is equal to every demand. There is no reality in lack. Abundance is here and now manifest.

Charles Fillmore

Deny that lack has any place or reality in your thought or your affairs and affirm plenty as the only appearance. Praise what you have, be it ever so little, and insist that it is constantly growing larger.

Charles Fort

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

Charles Bukowski

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.

Charles Bukowski

I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.

Charles Bukowski

i never understood society. i undersand that it works somehow and that it functions as a reality and that its realities are necessary to keep us from worse realities. but all i sense are that are plenty of police and jails and judges and laws and that what is meant to protect me is breaking me down...

Charles Bukowski

When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row." "There are some real weirdos down there." "They're everywhere.

Charles Bukowski

But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.

Charles Bukowski

To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.

Charles Bukowski

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

Charles Bukowski

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

Charles Bukowski

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

Charles Bukowski

I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

Charles Bukowski

Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool.

Charles Bukowski

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Charles Bukowski

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.

The reality is, what are you going to do next?

The reality is there is a problem, even if it were only perception.

The reality is there are only 52 Saturdays in a year . . . It makes sense to look at the alternatives.