Olympia Dukakis

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

— Olympia Dukakis

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills…

— Olympia Dukakis

I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk…

— Olympia Dukakis

“Rhythm of life runs in cycles there are times in the darkness and time in the light.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but…

— Olympia Dukakis

Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or…

— Olympia Dukakis

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be…

— Olympia Dukakis

What you don't know about women is alot.

— Olympia Dukakis

Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

— Olympia Dukakis

Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo.…

— Olympia Dukakis

God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to…

— Olympia Dukakis

When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the…

— Olympia Dukakis

You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real…

— Olympia Dukakis

Winning is everything in Hollywood.

— Olympia Dukakis

I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of…

— Olympia Dukakis

When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and…

— Olympia Dukakis

I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to…

— Olympia Dukakis

Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!

— Olympia Dukakis

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

— Olympia Dukakis

The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spiritual values. Myself included. We've learned…

— Olympia Dukakis

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to…

— Olympia Dukakis

I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write…

— Olympia Dukakis