Erika Christensen
Related I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy. OLIVER HUDSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS RICK RIORDAN FRANK ABAGNALE NEIL PEART I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL RICK RIORDAN I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in jo... EMMA CAULFIELD I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes y... DAMIAN LEWIS MATTIE STEPANEK Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS LUCAN LUCAN KELLY WEARSTLER It's hard because I seek out strong female roles. I turn down a lot of stuff, not because it'... GINA HOLDEN It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk a... BJORN BORG RODNEY KING Very rarely am I attracted to characters that are 'woe is me.' I'm not a big fan of wome... MILA KUNIS Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but... ALLISON WILLIAMS I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American t... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze ... ALEXIS BLEDEL Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren'... YURI LOWENTHAL ZOE KRAVITZ I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life. PETER CAREY Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."GORDON KORMAN PETE CARROLL ELLIE GOULDING RACHEL DRATCH ALEXA CHUNG J. D. SOUTHER I have a very hard time picturing myself in a room with some type of goo oozing out of an air vent a... KATIE ASELTON SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work. KAT DENNINGS T. BOONE PICKENS JOHN HURT I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the... TAISSA FARMIGA BEBE REXHA ROBERT REDFORD Daredevil was known as 'The Man Without Fear,' and I just thought, 'Well, I don't th... CHARLIE COX What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most importa... BRADY ANDERSON OPRAH WINFREY MIKA BRZEZINSKI RYAN GOSLING TOM WATSON GARY ALLAN I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the c... LARISA OLEYNIK GEORGE LUCAS I'm still waiting for Peter Jackson to let me play an elf. I want to play Orlando Bloom's fa... CLIFF CURTIS There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life&#... ROBBIE WILLIAMS TAYLOR KITSCH I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my ... LAURA RICKETTS I don't think nobody's doubting I can play basketball. LAMAR ODOM I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I con... LAURA VANDERVOORT HUME CRONYN BOB GELDOF BILLY CORGAN EMMA WATSON I think that Valentine's Day is only as good as you want it to be. You know, I don't think i... PRINCE ROYCE J. J. WATT BEBE REXHA I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, bu... IDRIS ELBA It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a... CAREY MULLIGAN I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't thin... DAVID WALLIAMS I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in... BEVERLY CLEARY There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might... CHRIS YOUNG You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them. ELLEN POMPEO ALAN BALL ZARA LARSSON CLARENCE THOMAS I love doing emotional scenes. As I've had a perfect life, I don't really have much to pull ... HILARY DUFF A lot of people ask me to produce or direct, but I don't think I'm qualified. It's hard ... GONG LI JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to de... DYLAN WALSH I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV... SAMUEL LARSEN I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw ho... CHRIS O'DONNELL SRIKUMAR RAO Everything's a real passion to me - my children, my family, my work, travel. I don't play te... ROSALYN SUSSMAN YALOW I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality. CATHERINE KEENER The one thing that I'm always gonna promote is, 'Don't look at a fellow black man as an ... DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. ED MCMAHON CARA DELEVINGNE I think swagger's a confidence. It's a confidence of you knowing that you work hard for your... AMAR'E STOUDEMIRE ORNETTE COLEMAN Chemistry is a hard thing. I don't think you can force it, and it doesn't necessarily mean t... TRICIA HELFER
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ERIKA ARRIARAN I've never been able to play defense in my life. I knew that from the first second on the floor, I w... ERIKA ARRIARAN She got off easy. Nobody's lost one since. ERIKA ARRIARAN In high school, we never paid any attention. Everyone was like, 'No.' We pretty much got scolded for... ERIKA ARRIARAN I love my life. I'm really grateful. My biggest dream come true is my daughter. I've wanted ... ERIKA ELENIAK This is really exciting. I'm proud of our team for getting here and getting farther than we did last... ERIKA QUIGLEY There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and ... ERIKA SLEZAK This isn't for capital projects like roads and bridges. It's for private groups. A lot of this is ta... ERIKA ROSENBERG Everything seems so surreal ,like it didn't even happen. It feels like a dream I still haven't woken... ERIKA JO I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer sur... ERIKA SLEZAK He is in a gunfight right now. I'm gonna have to take a message. ERIKA ELENIAK I just need a few more to cover everything. And then it'll look like I have a nice even tan. ERIKA PAGE It's a little different having (the hurdles) all staggered. ERIKA OLSON Black Velvet. ERIKA JO I hope this in some small part makes up for the terrible first impression. I would love to take you ... ERIKA LANCE My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel... ERIKA SLEZAK Their team is very powerful. ERIKA HOLST I've got no tears of disappointment from tonight. But I don't have any tears of happiness either. ERIKA HOLST It's kind of mixed feelings after losing a game like this. We're disappointed, but at the same time,... ERIKA HOLST We know they have a dangerous power play. In the 3-0 game (during the U.S. pre-Olympic tour), they s... ERIKA HOLST We knew that if we got one goal on them that they were going to get a little shaky. We didn't care w... ERIKA HOLST I think that gave us a lot of energy. ERIKA HOLST We have to go into that game and believe we can do that. ERIKA HOLST It was cool to be there with my sister. To be at any race with her is comforting. ERIKA GHENT It's just like the best feeling ever. It's almost like a dream. For us, it hasn't sunken in yet. ERIKA GHENT I think that we knew that we could do that. ERIKA GHENT We pretty much know who our competition is, and what to expect. ERIKA GHENT A chronic state of arousal isn't healthy. It causes hypertension, and it has been implicated in diab... ERIKA FRIEDMANN A chronic state of arousal isn't healthy. It causes hypertension, and it has been implicated in diab... ERIKA FRIEDMANN Look, a visit from a dog is not a panacea. ERIKA FRIEDMANN They should lock him up and not let him out. I'm so nervous. I'm so nervous my husband has to take c... ERIKA CRUZ He appeared to be on drugs. He was kind of weird, saying kind of sick things. ERIKA CRUZ I was so scared. I was very afraid. He pulled my hair and forced me and locked me in the bathroom. ERIKA CRUZ I'm not nervous. I'm used to competition. ERIKA CHAMBERS We've improved a lot since the beginning. ERIKA CHAMBERS We didn't have a dance team, and we wanted a dance team. I was more interested in dancing than cheer... ERIKA CHAMBERS I like to cook and I enjoy hosting the parties. There is that saying of who you are with on New Year... ERIKA BONACOLTA I serve food throughout the evening, including the dinner, and then cold cuts, so people eat about t... ERIKA BONACOLTA Most of our work comes out of the stories or ideas of the people who are creating it. What we do is ... ERIKA BLOCK It's about connecting two different communities across that vast distance. ERIKA BLOCK There are stories within walking. The piece explores walking from many different angles and perspect... ERIKA BLOCK This morning after yoga, I laid in the grass and watched the white clouds go by as the Earth turned ... ERIKA B. We expect this strong outlook to be reiterated during second-quarter conference calls. We expect com... ERIKA KLAUER The only thing that people can be certain of in Vegas is that change is constant. ERIKA YOWELL We did respond saying yes, we would be interested. ERIKA YOWELL People are spending an incrementally larger amount on entertainment year upon year. We're the self-d... ERIKA YOWELL This is something that is excellent in promoting awareness of Las Vegas in one of our top overseas m... ERIKA YOWELL Their motivation has proven strong in that (tourists) will find a way to get here. ERIKA YOWELL From there, they started fixing everything -- the holes in the fields, the backstops, the dugouts, t... ERIKA TUCKER They're truly my inspiration. They know I'm actively involved in the community and they give me that... ERIKA TUCKER We needed to fix this. There's no reason we should be serving food when there's rats and roaches. ERIKA TUCKER I know when we've had tours here to prospective students they've been very excited about what's goin... ERIKA TALLMAN Northern has always had an extraordinary amount of technology, but you'd never know from just lookin... ERIKA TALLMAN It's really going to be a focal point on this campus. ERIKA TALLMAN We've had very good luck with the weather. I thought we wouldn't be done until December, but we've m... ERIKA TALLMAN My family's a musical family ERIKA TAKACS Oil Park is close to campus, but cosmetically it isn't the most attractive. However, they do a great... ERIKA SWANSON Our freshmen have the ability to make some waves this season. ERIKA SWANSON We only have 12 players this year, and they can all play different positions, but no one needs to ge... ERIKA SWANSON This is an extremely competitive conference, and on any given day, any team can win. Last year was u... ERIKA SWANSON In high school I wanted to look good but really I was just frying myself. ERIKA SMITH Right now I see that we need to work on our communication. I see it as a major weakness, and that wi... ERIKA SMITH This is a highly unusual event, which is not indicative of the atmosphere that exists in our schools... ERIKA SHOOLBRED Chapman school administrators did report the incident to the district office at the end of day. (The... ERIKA SHOOLBRED That's pretty cool. Somebody told me awhile back that I was getting close to 1,000 rebounds, but I k... ERIKA QUIGLEY Once that ball is thrown up in the air for the opening tip, all those nerves are gone and I just pla... ERIKA QUIGLEY We were trailing by three points at the half and needed to play better. They were playing a zone, an... ERIKA QUIGLEY The North Dakota win was great, but we have to get over that now. I know once we get to Arkansas, my... ERIKA QUIGLEY North Dakota was very gracious in defeat. My parents told me a lot of their fans told them that on t... ERIKA QUIGLEY It had been a long time since we had beat North Dakota, so it just felt so good to win that one. It ... ERIKA QUIGLEY Despite what happened in the past, we came in confident. We knew all year that they had to falter on... ERIKA QUIGLEY We're just really excited for it. We're going to be ready for this game. I know the whole team is go... ERIKA QUIGLEY It took about a week to recover from it. We had to go back to square one and the basics. We had to p... ERIKA QUIGLEY We now have expanded to include hair and with another stylist on the way. ERIKA OLSON We make history every day at Hartford. It just keeps going. ERIKA MESSAM We're pretty confident. We're playing great basketball right now at the end of the year, so we're lo... ERIKA MESSAM I don't know if it's hit me yet. No, it hasn't hit me yet. When we get together as a team, and sing ... ERIKA MESSAM We got it together and came out strong in the second half. I think in both halves, the first five mi... ERIKA MESSAM I feel like we're focused. That's the difference between this team and the years before that. I thin... ERIKA MESSAM Senior Day is emotional, whether you're a senior or not. It's tough to play after that. We got ourse... ERIKA MESSAM Not only did I have a bad day, but a lot of us didn't play well. It seemed like we all had a bad day... ERIKA MESSAM She didn't get any points? I would have got her a bucket if I knew. ERIKA MESSAM Micron's earnings per share did benefit by 5 cents from a one-time refinancing of a joint venture ar... ERIKA KLAUER After a disappointing three-year downturn, we are at the beginning of a substantial semiconductor in... ERIKA KLAUER Given that less than one million of these motherboards have been shipped, we do not foresee the rese... ERIKA KLAUER I think the reason that the stock is up today is because people are beginning to believe that the K6... ERIKA KLAUER Given the very robust environment of demand and Intel's new product lineup, we had surmised that the... ERIKA KLAUER It's important for Intel in the sense that it should accelerate their overall revenue and earnings g... ERIKA KLAUER While this news is likely to cause further doubt in investor minds as to the company's ability to ex... ERIKA KLAUER Personal-computer unit demand should grow at least 18 to 19 percent in 1997 versus 1996, and Intel i... ERIKA KLAUER In our view, investors are wondering if Intel has taken its eye off the ball. The number of mistakes... ERIKA KLAUER One good thing about not having many tall trees in my yard is that herbs love the lack of shade. ERIKA JOHNSON Can you believe that just last weekend I was at my prom?! ... And now here I am with a record deal a... ERIKA JO I guess you guys aren't going to hear this next song, but it's the it's going to be the next single ... ERIKA JO It was kind of bitter sweet for me. He wanted to be there. He wanted a record deal. But in a way he ... ERIKA JO It's been crazy, but a good crazy. I wouldn't have had it any other way. I recorded the album and pu... ERIKA JO She'd wanted that, a grandfather. Someone who would stay. Michel had an eyetooth that turned sideway... ERIKA SWYLER She'd started swimming early in the morning, when the kids were asleep, when she thought he was asle... ERIKA SWYLER Why the hell don't people understand there are some things you don't talk about? You keep it to your... ERIKA SWYLER Storytelling is an ancient art that rarely receives the respect it deserves. Is it even possible to ... ERIKA EICHENSEER Don't complain that your life is boring. It is because you never did anything exciting. ERIKA WOODS These people are so damned proud of their hatred! Hatred is easy, and lazy to boot. It’s love that... ERIKA JOHANSEN Fortune favors the bold, history tells us. Therefore, it behooves us to be as bold as possible. ERIKA JOHANSEN Only a fool blames the dealer ERIKA JOHANSEN Anger was the indulgence of a child, not a queen. ERIKA JOHANSEN Always, we think we know what courage means. If I were called upon, we say, I would answer the call.... ERIKA JOHANSEN Pain only disables the weak. ERIKA JOHANSEN When it fails, they do call it madness, Lazarus. But when it succeeds, they call it genius. ERIKA JOHANSEN Time stretched years back and years forward, but nothing that came afterward ever had the power to w... ERIKA JOHANSEN Weakness, all the more dangerous for being combined with a sense of entitlement ERIKA JOHANSEN The mark of the true hero is that the most heroic of his deeds is done in secret. We never hear of i... ERIKA JOHANSEN Oh, God, I would love to go and do a play someplace. ERIKA SLEZAK My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore... ERIKA SLEZAK Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very discipline... ERIKA SLEZAK If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inad... ERIKA SLEZAK I've obviously made a very nice amount of money. I have a very nice lifestyle. I get to do what ... ERIKA SLEZAK I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time fo... ERIKA SLEZAK I haven't been on the stage in a long time. ERIKA SLEZAK Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience - ... ERIKA SLEZAK But also, it's a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at i... ERIKA SLEZAK And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film an... ERIKA SLEZAK And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open ... ERIKA SLEZAK I mean, I don't necessarily want to leave because I have this job, but I would love to do a good... ERIKA SLEZAK I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it. ERIKA SLEZAK You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their v... ERIKA SLEZAK Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy. ERIKA SLEZAK An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day... ERIKA ELENIAK He is in a gunfight right now. I'm gonna have to take a message. ERIKA ELENIAK Staying away from her has been damn near impossible. I feel drawn to her like there's a force field ... ERIKA TAYLOR I will always protect you. I will always put the safety of your heart above everything else.....just... ERIKA TAYLOR This is stupid. Very, very stupid. I don't even have a tear-stained dog to wave bye to me. But I tol... 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People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long. 
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Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. 
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. 
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I don't care about the length of anything I play, as long as it's a good character. 
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I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you ... 
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I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-lookin... 
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