Because Quotes · Page 52

I would never put on 20 kilos and mess up my system because a role demands it. Hindi cinema doesn't offer you…

— Bipasha Basu

I've tried to apply for jobs and I've been hung up on because of how I speak.

— Rosie Jones

I didn't want to overthink things because you can start overdoing it and get anxiety.

— Sofia Kenin

Crucially, in Westeros, there's probably no space for a girlboss story, because it's a patriarchal culture that keeps women tightly restricted.

— Emma D'Arcy

Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus…

— Martin Filler

There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't…

— Mario Balotelli

You don't need to be retouched - because the real you is beautiful.

— Iskra Lawrence

If I were a rock star, I'd design my own clothes. I'd do it because that's the mark of a true rock…

— Shawn Amos

Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I…

— Edmund White

By a lot of people's standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material…

— Catherine Tate

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.

— Mo Ibrahim

I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.

— Janis Karpinski

Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to work equally…

— Patti LuPone

I think older women's voices are the most hated voices in the world - whether it's because people are reminded of their…

— Judy Horacek

I do retweet some of the things that people say about the things I've done, but I don't necessarily want to use…

— Kim Gordon

There could be more to the universe than the three dimensions we are familiar with. They are hidden from us in some…

— Lisa Randall

One thing I liked about being in microscopy is it gets you out of your box constantly because there's such a diverse…

— Eric Betzig

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just…

— Alice Walker

If you are going to go to a medium, go to a medium as a skeptic... and this is a medium telling…

— Tyler Henry

Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the…

— Helen Oyeyemi

I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

— Quinn Shephard

Progress among the youngest children is especially important because we know that preventing obesity at an early age helps young people maintain…

— Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is…

— Joanna Lumley

“Ambition interests me because it’s such a surefire indicator of damage.”

— Peter Morgan

It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn't go to parties or award…

— Rohit Shetty