Wendy Liebman
Related JOYCE GIRAUD One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian... EUGENE LEVY Acting is about giving yourself away, like the U2 song 'With or Without You.' You just don&#... CATHERINE HICKS One day, when I was 33, I shifted. I suddenly saw acting as a higher calling. I understood that my g... LAILA ROBINS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON TAYLOR MALI JACK LEMMON ROWAN ATKINSON NATHAN FIELDER JUSTINE SKYE CHRISTINE LAKIN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON BILLY JOEL OCTAVIA BUTLER The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me. ENRIQUE IGLESIAS GILDA RADNER BILL COSBY I'd rather make all my secrets public than have an image based on gossip. I'd rather put it ... EVE JIM DALE IAN MCKELLEN 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 It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit ... JOAN ALLEN QUENTIN TARANTINO I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than ... EMILY BROWNING CHUCK D VIVIEN LEIGH CHARLES STROSS First of all, I was a good Christian kid. My mom and dad taught me never to fight. So I never fought... FRANK PERETTI CHARLIE ROWE DAWN STEEL Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH SUZANNE SOMERS HEATH LEDGER Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to ... CARLA GUGINO NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON STEVE HARVEY FRANK MCCOURT BEAR BRYANT It's a lot more comfortable, I must say. Ummm, I didn't think I'd be playing with anothe... VIVIAN CAMPBELL I'm a working class lad. So at 25, and with no-one in our family having any theatrical inclinati... ROB JAMES-COLLIER It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was ... CALISTA FLOCKHART RICHARD SIMMONS I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like t... RANDY TRAVIS MARILYN MANSON I'd make a lousy cop. I'd just wear it too close to my skin and wouldn't survive. I'... ENRICO COLANTONI AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN RED SKELTON BO BURNHAM CAROL BURNETT ROSEANNE BARR After we'd filmed one series of 'Kiss Me Kate,' everyone was saying: 'The guy's ... DARREN BOYD BLYTHE DANNER MARYJANICE DAVIDSON GARY SHTEYNGART From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students.... CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN ROB DELANEY 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 love playing 'Madame Vastra.' Although I do suffer, spending three-and-a-half hours in mak... NEVE MCINTOSH STEVE HARVEY SOPHIA BUSH JOHN MAYER I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than fak... ELENA DELLE DONNE MATT GROENING MICHAEL J. FOX AJAY NAIDU JAMES CORDEN I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private ... HANNAH WARE ZARA LARSSON BRITT EKLAND I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,'... BASSEM YOUSSEF I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I ... ALAN ZWEIBEL MICK JAGGER LOU GEHRIG AASIF MANDVI My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when th... CAMPBELL BROWN JOELLE CARTER I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when ... JOHN MAHONEY BEN BERNANKE My father told me when I went to college that I needed to take an accounting class. I enrolled and w... GEORGINA BLOOMBERG I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum ... LAURA HADDOCK I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns an... ZACH GILFORD AUDREY HEPBURN I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so m... IRELAND BALDWIN SONG HYE-KYO ALBERT BROOKS ALISTAIR BROWNLEE I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run. BILL DICKEY TREVOR NOAH BILL MAHER ALAN LADD RICK WARREN BRUCE WILLIS I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pu... TIKA SUMPTER I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different em... OLIVIA HOLT ISSA RAE I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it. RAINN WILSON It's true to say that I'm a budding young actor. But I'd rather get my name out there be... JOSH BOWMAN NICOLE SCHERZINGER I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an ... GABRIELLE UNION
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me! WENDY LIEBMAN I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phylli... WENDY LIEBMAN My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money. WENDY LIEBMAN I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were s... WENDY LIEBMAN Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you. WENDY LIEBMAN My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog wa... WENDY LIEBMAN I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience see... WENDY LIEBMAN I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog. WENDY LIEBMAN People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me! WENDY LIEBMAN My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money WENDY LIEBMAN If you've got a brand like this, any brand in fact, you need to stay true to your roots if you want ... WENDY LIEBMAN If you've got a brand like this, any brand in fact, you need to stay true to your roots if you want ... WENDY LIEBMAN I go running when I have to. When the ice cream truck is doing sixty. WENDY LIEBMAN I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog. WENDY LIEBMAN I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because the water is cold in th... WENDY LIEBMAN You should be concerned if you're eating two eggs or more a day ... because you could increase your ... BONNIE LIEBMAN We have known for years that unsaturated fats, such as those found in olive oil, can lower cholester... BONNIE LIEBMAN I don't praise FDA that often, but in this case I think they made the right decision. BONNIE LIEBMAN However, if you're eating two eggs or more a day, there could potentially be an issue with cholester... BONNIE LIEBMAN To suggest that chocolate is a health food is risky. BONNIE LIEBMAN That's the problem. Many of these foods have a mixture of whole and refined grains. You may be eatin... BONNIE LIEBMAN There's certainly a danger in people thinking that chocolate is a health food. Chocolate is very cal... BONNIE LIEBMAN Eating baked chips or veggie chips is not the same as eating a baked potato. It's a big mistake to t... BONNIE LIEBMAN It used to be that condos played second fiddle to the prewar co-ops. Now, there's a lot of status at... PAMELA LIEBMAN It's not one case, it's thousands of cases. It's not one state, it's almost all of the states. You'r... JAMES LIEBMAN Everybody has a view on the death penalty. JAMES LIEBMAN It puts you at very high risk of having high error rates. It also puts you at high risk of sentencin... JAMES LIEBMAN I am always asked, "Who was/is your mentor?" One person.... Howard Lorber. He has given me the advic... PAMELA LIEBMAN JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN JOSHUA L. LIEBMAN JOSHUA L. LIEBMAN JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, an... WENDY DAVIS As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser. WENDY CARLOS WENDY CRAIG When 'Twin Peaks' happened the first time, I was a stage actor in Seattle. I was called in f... WENDY ROBIE WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP When you're young, you're stupid. WENDY HILLER Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people. WENDY HILLER I was unbelievably lucky. WENDY HILLER I love the ultimate escapism of paranormal and fantasy - all of the otherworldly creatures, magic, a... WENDY HIGGINS I gather inspiration from all aspects of my life and things I see: love, heartache, mistakes, hopes,... WENDY HIGGINS I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the s... WENDY HIGGINS I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't. WENDY DAVIS Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo... WENDY DAVIS Let's make sure that we don't close down 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas and leave women with ... WENDY DAVIS While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few faci... WENDY DAVIS I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or fo... WENDY DAVIS Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there. WENDY DAVIS We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you... WENDY DAVIS I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV. WENDY DAVIS Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's e... WENDY DAVIS When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get t... WENDY DAVIS As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GO... WENDY DAVIS When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from... WENDY DAVIS We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels... WENDY DAVIS I always stand out by the voting lines on Election Day, and I can't tell you how many people say... WENDY DAVIS I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epi... WENDY DAVIS I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, eve... WENDY DAVIS I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard w... WENDY DAVIS I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate ... WENDY DAVIS Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system. WENDY DAVIS WENDY CRAIG WENDY COPE WENDY COPE WENDY COPE WENDY COPE WENDY COPE WENDY COPE WENDY COPE WENDY COPE WENDY COPE WENDY COPE WENDY COPE WENDY COPE WENDY COPE I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you ca... WENDY CARLOS Composition has almost always been solitary. WENDY CARLOS A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art. WENDY CARLOS Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change... WENDY DAVIS Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care o... WENDY DAVIS I look back, and I have no regrets, truly. Everything led me to the place where I am now. WENDY WHELAN Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to ... WENDY DAVIS WENDY MASS WENDY MASS WENDY KOPP He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself. WENDY WALKER WENDY WASSERSTEIN WENDY MASS WENDY WUNDER WENDY COPE WENDY COPE WENDY CRAIG WENDY WASSERSTEIN WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP Aging gracefully means being flexible, being open, allowing change, enjoying change and loving yours... WENDY WHELAN WENDY COPE WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It'... WENDY DAVIS when you hate a girl because she gets to kiss the boy you like, any little imperfection can become a... WENDY BRANT WENDY KOPP Texans don't want to sit back and watch Austin turn into Washington, D.C. State leaders in power... WENDY DAVIS WENDY KOPP Certain people have certain ways of focusing on things, and some arrange their lens to a pinhole in ... WENDY WHELAN WENDY KOPP The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and s... WENDY DAVIS It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect... WENDY DAVIS I rely heavily on my beta readers' honest critiques. WENDY HIGGINS WENDY KOPP I knew I wanted to be a ballet dancer, but what kind, I wasn't sure. My two dream companies had ... WENDY WHELAN This is our home tonight. Anywhere with you is my home. WENDY HIGGINS WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP WENDY KOPP In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. WENDY MAGRUDER I have always swung back and forth between alienation and relatedness. As a child, I would run away ... WENDY ROSE To meet this deadline, my marching orders are to seek to conclude this comprehensive agreement by th... WENDY CUTLER These issues have basically been untouched in this area before. Why is this area the exception? We n... WENDY VASQUEZ They are widely respected among the bench and bar nationally for being careful jurists, faithful to ... WENDY LONG WENDY WASSERSTEIN We're not at the stage yet where investors are panic-stricken by any stretch of the imagination. Con... WENDY STRUB Career counselors on campus don't necessarily give graduates the tools they need to build rewarding ... WENDY ADAMS It would be a misrepresentation of facts to report that KBR is responsible for the implementation of... WENDY HALL It would be a misrepresentation of facts to report that KBR is responsible for the implementation of... WENDY HALL I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question... WENDY KAMINER When we'd look at our budget for the last couple years, we were unable to pay our operating services... WENDY KRAJEWSKI WENDY KOPP I'm numb from the toes of my left foot to about the top of my rib cage, and then I do get some visio... WENDY BOOKER WENDY KOPP Most of the kids weren't afraid and knew all about proper oral hygiene. The staff also did a great j... WENDY LOMBARDI Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas a... WENDY DAVIS The president promised in two campaigns to nominate justices who will faithfully uphold the text and... WENDY LONG You have to be more aggressive, for sure. I also think a three-day tournament kind of lends itself t... WENDY WARD The Tommy brand has lost a bit of its luster. WENDY LIEBMANN The vote was 10-8 the day President Bush nominated him, the vote was 10-8 when the hearings began, t... WENDY LONG It would be like a shooting outside Macy's. It was so public, most of the victims were bystanders an... WENDY CUKIER WENDY KOPP Money is available to but people are not applying. We urge people who are eligible to apply now and ... WENDY PARKS I fell in love with her; she was just adorable, WENDY WHITE In the next 10 years I see this wave of donor-conceived children cresting at adolescence or young ad... WENDY KRAMER In the next 10 years I see this wave of donor-conceived children cresting at adolescence or young ad... WENDY KRAMER There's no question that the charge would be first-degree premeditated murder. The grand jury could ... WENDY MURPHY People want a celebrity designer they trust and an esthetic to tell them what color and couch goes w... WENDY LIEBMANN Spielberg certainly made the most superb movie; Peter was very pleased. But Peter kept telling peopl... WENDY BENCHLEY [Jane Smiley is renowned for the variety and originality of her work. Writing in the] Washington Pos... WENDY SMITH People only sign up if they're willing to be found. We don't want to invade anyone's privacy. We wan... WENDY KRAMER WENDY KOPP We seemed to be in a hurry in the first half, especially in trying to get the ball inside to Dominiq... WENDY PRICE It's certainly part of our cultural heritage, ... We've been predicting for a while that by 2015, 60... WENDY EVANS We choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. And certainly, sp... WENDY LAWRENCE Is this safe for women, when in fact there have been no studies done on the long-term effects on wom... WENDY WRIGHT We're disturbed by ... lack of concern on the medical safety, WENDY WRIGHT Feinstein is dipping her toe into the very ugly, muddy waters of religious bigotry, WENDY WRIGHT When a drug is easily available, it is a public health hazard to women. WENDY WRIGHT In any scenario in which a woman would be taking the morning-after pill she needs medical interventi... WENDY WRIGHT Making the morning-after pill over the counter would only benefit those that profit from its increas... WENDY WRIGHT It is naive to assume any over-the-counter scheme for the morning-after pill would be effective. Mak... WENDY WRIGHT It is naive to assume any over-the-counter scheme for the morning-after pill would be effective. A 1... WENDY WRIGHT We can't deprive the paying members of their golf, even for an ex-president. WENDY ALLEY is my strength? Do I even have a strength? Maybe I have too many strengths... WENDY MASS Steve will never put her in front of a camera. He's adamant that she not appear on camera anywhere. WENDY PRICE In general we have to be very attentive to the fact that hunting rifles and shotguns in the wrong ha... WENDY CUKIER If you subsidize an activity you get more of it. It's encouraging the behavior that leads to more cl... WENDY WRIGHT
Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm ... 
The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and... 
I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar. 
People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in pers... 
Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling ... 
Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I'd rather be the person that's like, ... 
I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - ... 
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun. 
And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - eve... 
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they'r... 
Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What... 
When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, ... 
I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, u... 
I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make o... 
I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for... 
Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier... 
Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front ... 
After the 'Golden Compass,' I wasn't sure if I'd ever get another acting job. 
The first war movie I ever saw was 'Platoon,' and I was eight months pregnant. So my husband... 
I understood something way back when I was on 'Three's Company.' When I got the part, I ... 
I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film. 
I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework s... 
The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the ... 
I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I... 
Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit,... 
I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. Bu... 
If I were in a room full of people, I'd rather be the person who is more interesting than the on... 
I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another... 
I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up. 
At one point when I was very young, when I was first starting out, I thought, 'Well, one day I&#... 
When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I had ... 
When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian hi... 
My earliest memories of Gwyneth first singing is in bed when we would make up songs. The most I coul... 
When I first quit my day job, I was terrified. I called my editors and said I'm trying to make a... 
I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. ... 
I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized ... 
I tell people I'm a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I'm somebody&#... 
I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all d... 
I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psycho... 
I think when 'The Simpsons' first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They ... 
The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you'... 
My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teache... 
I'm not a stand-up comedian; I'm not a satirist. 
The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce. 
I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day. 
I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five. 
In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and ... 
I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. B... 
I think everyone should take an acting class. It's like therapy because you get to learn a lot a... 
I came home from school one day, and there was a phone call for me. And I picked up the phone. They ... 
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures... 
I don't find it uncomfortable that I'm recognized and liked by so many people. If that were ... 
I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I&... 
I wanted to be an endurance athlete from a young age. I remember being in a careers class at school ... 
As a comedian, I'm forced to have a tough skin. Until people laugh, they are detractors. You wal... 
Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I use... 
I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day. 
Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not... 
After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and ... 
I used to love being the class clown. I loved to make jokes and make people laugh. There was a set o... 
In normal life people say, 'You're so different than on stage!' Offstage I'm down to... 
The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our ... 
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. 
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. 
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. 
One rose says more than the dozen. 
We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, t... 
There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not goi... 
The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour... 
I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're g... 
Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason. 
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. 
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. 
You need to be flagrantly insouciant. 
One rose says more than the dozen 