Natalie Zea quote: "When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was the WB. My age was perfect for it, but I just never came across as a youngster. I had to grow into my age in order to start working, and by the time I did, it was when things started to get good."

I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.
NATALIE ZEA

I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the hu...
NATALIE ZEA

I'm drawn to the romantic aspect of a character. It's human emotion. It's much more fun ...
NATALIE ZEA

As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's goin...
NATALIE ZEA

I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, ...
NATALIE ZEA

I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple...
NATALIE ZEA

I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds suc...
NATALIE ZEA

I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting...
NATALIE ZEA

I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the...
NATALIE ZEA

I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
NATALIE ZEA

I'm at my best when I'm working. I just recently learned how to find balance and deal with d...
NATALIE ZEA

I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what...
NATALIE ZEA

I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like,...
NATALIE ZEA

I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped dra...
NATALIE ZEA

I've actually done a lot of comedy.
NATALIE ZEA

I think, especially when you're on TV, once you become associated with one genre or the other, i...
NATALIE ZEA

The fact is that viewers are fickle and it's rare that such a large group of people can be categ...
NATALIE ZEA

There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can'...
NATALIE ZEA

Outside of 'Justified,' I do like to keep it to comedy. When I'm not there, I try to see...
NATALIE ZEA

My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relation...
NATALIE ZEA

I'm not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even ...
NATALIE ZEA

I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come b...
NATALIE ZEA

There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I...
NATALIE ZEA

When you know you are going down, dying slowly and taken your whole family with you; that is what re...
JOHN ZEA

When you know you are going down and dying slowly and taken your whole family with you; that is what...
JOHN ZEA

... Now I'll close my eyes with all my strength
and fly away singing my baby girl's favorite so...
JOHN ZEA

My life is so empty, that even death doesn't wont to take me!
JOHN ZEA

SUICIDE... Is to have the freedom to choose, when, where and how to die.
JOHN ZEA

SUICIDE...
Is to have the freedom to choose; when, where and how to die.
― John Zea
JOHN ZEA

SUICIDE... Is to have the freedom to choose; when, where and how to die.
JOHN ZEA

I got a monster within . . . my own self !
JOHN ZEA

I'm not afraid to die
no today . . . maybe tomorrow.

But I'll not die
no today ...
JOHN ZEA

Many people will tell that it is not for a man to cry, but they may not know how is to feel your hea...
JOHN ZEA

She'll be missed. I think she left a legacy for Plano pitchers to locate pitches and help the defens...
CYNTHIA ZEA

We start district Tuesday. The games we missed out on are games you just won't get to prepare.
CYNTHIA ZEA

She did a great job. She stayed ahead of hitters and took care of business.
CYNTHIA ZEA

There are still a couple of spots people are battling for. It's still very, very early. It's a matte...
CYNTHIA ZEA

We worked hard on defense this week. We got another good pitching outing. Stevie pitched well and hi...
CYNTHIA ZEA

We definitely cleaned up our fielding.
CYNTHIA ZEA

It will give us a chance to look at all three of our pitchers. It will be very good for us.
CYNTHIA ZEA

With the way they set up the tournament, we don't really play to win and advance but for experience ...
CYNTHIA ZEA

I think we can go with any three of those pitchers any day.
CYNTHIA ZEA

What they showed me today was a great job of having discipline at the plate. They weren't swinging a...
CYNTHIA ZEA

During Easter, we celebrate the (resurrection of Jesus), who was sentenced to death by Roman and Jew...
REV. VIRGILIO ZEA

For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting ...
NATALIE DORMER

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason...
NATALIE WOOD

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignoran...
NATALIE GOLDBERG

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what the...
NATALIE PORTMAN

Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with cu...
NATALIE MASSENET

When I get married it will be for keeps.
NATALIE WOOD

A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
NATALIE WOOD

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish an...
NATALIE WOOD

I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.
NATALIE WOOD

Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting marri...
NATALIE WOOD

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
NATALIE WOOD

There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
NATALIE WOOD

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human ...
NATALIE WOOD

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life r...
NATALIE WOOD

I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, ...
NATALIE WOOD

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
NATALIE WOOD

I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
NATALIE WOOD

The constant attention is what is so difficult.
NATALIE WOOD

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
NATALIE WOOD

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.
NATALIE WOOD

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie t...
NATALIE WOOD

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
NATALIE WOOD

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.
NATALIE WOOD

My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the tr...
NATALIE WOOD

Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
NATALIE WOOD

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
NATALIE WOOD

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
NATALIE WOOD

I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
NATALIE WOOD

We were descended from royalty.
NATALIE WOOD

Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all.
NATALIE PORTMAN

Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're ...
NATALIE PORTMAN

I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confide...
NATALIE PORTMAN

I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like ...
NATALIE PORTMAN

I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous...
NATALIE PORTMAN

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work ...
NATALIE PORTMAN

Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
NATALIE PORTMAN

When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want ...
NATALIE PORTMAN

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were de...
NATALIE PORTMAN

I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people...
NATALIE PORTMAN

I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.
NATALIE PORTMAN

Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.
NATALIE PORTMAN

I remember how to be a person by being around them.
NATALIE PORTMAN

I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.
NATALIE PORTMAN

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out ...
NATALIE PORTMAN

It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you...
NATALIE PORTMAN

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a mov...
NATALIE PORTMAN

I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
NATALIE PORTMAN

One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've ga...
NATALIE MORALES

I learned what looked good on my petite frame, and to this day, I'm a great bargain shopper.
NATALIE MORALES

Audrey Hepburn, for me, was the end-all, be-all style icon.
NATALIE MORALES

You could pack for a trip to Europe with the bags under my eyes!
NATALIE MORALES

My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six ...
NATALIE MORALES

I would have loved to have met Buster Keaton.
NATALIE MORALES

The first thing I do after work is take off my TV makeup with a gentle cleanser. I also try to exfol...
NATALIE MORALES

Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I ...
NATALIE MORALES

To me, running is therapy. It's mood-altering and gets my endorphins going. It's also a grea...
NATALIE MORALES

At restaurants, I try to tell them not to bring the bread basket, but what's the point of going ...
NATALIE MORALES

I have crazy eyebrows, so it's crucial to tame them. Just like your hair, they set off your feat...
NATALIE MORALES

In high school, I did a little track and field and ran on my own. In college, I would run every now ...
NATALIE MORALES

If someone is not treating you in a way that you like, remember that there are so many nice people o...
NATALIE MORALES

I feel better all day if I start off by eating healthy. Breakfast is simple: multigrain toast with n...
NATALIE MORALES

Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
NATALIE MORALES

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a cr...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I've raised my daughter with no television.
NATALIE MERCHANT

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
NATALIE MERCHANT

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!
NATALIE MERCHANT

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to delib...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself int...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
NATALIE MERCHANT

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mas...
NATALIE MERCHANT

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index...
NATALIE MERCHANT

It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, an...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
NATALIE MERCHANT

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-close...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
NATALIE MERCHANT

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension i...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it'...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
NATALIE MERCHANT

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so...
NATALIE MERCHANT

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just fo...
NATALIE MASSENET

People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is,...
NATALIE MASSENET

As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out o...
NATALIE MASSENET

If you want success, be unique.
NATALIE MASSENET

I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she o...
NATALIE MASSENET

Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing.
NATALIE MASSENET

Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution pa...
NATALIE MASSENET

My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.
NATALIE MASSENET

Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe t...
NATALIE MASSENET

What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One ...
NATALIE MASSENET

One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my ne...
NATALIE MASSENET

Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
NATALIE MASSENET

To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditc...
NATALIE MASSENET

Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.
NATALIE MASSENET

I believe that all brands will become storytellers, editors and publishers, all stores will become m...
NATALIE MASSENET

I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can f...
NATALIE MASSENET

I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.
NATALIE MASSENET

Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.
NATALIE MASSENET

I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant...
NATALIE MARTINEZ

Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us - don't take us for granted!
NATALIE MARTINEZ

I think the last game console I had was Super Nintendo. I remember once I played the Sega Genesis. B...
NATALIE MARTINEZ

I like to play 'Battleship,' and I also like 'Wordle' on iPhone. These are good thin...
NATALIE MARTINEZ

My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
NATALIE MARTINEZ

I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good ...
NATALIE MARTINEZ

My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like '...
NATALIE MARTINEZ

I make a bomb vaca frita. It's like a flank steak like with the ropa vieja, but it's fried w...
NATALIE MARTINEZ

The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never kno...
NATALIE MARTINEZ

I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't belie...
NATALIE MARTINEZ

You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but j...
NATALIE MARTINEZ

I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
NATALIE MARTINEZ

I do eat what I want. I love meat - I'm Cuban: I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con po...
NATALIE MARTINEZ

I love boxing, MMA, and hiking with my dog. I work out 3 times a week, and on my off days, I do yoga...
NATALIE MARTINEZ

Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.
NATALIE MARTINEZ

I have to represent. I feel proud to have a culture that's different... and proud to be a Latina...
NATALIE MARTINEZ

'Dance Dance Revolution.' That's a lot of fun when you're having a dinner party and ...
NATALIE MARTINEZ

When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster...
NATALIE MACMASTER

'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as ...
NATALIE MACMASTER

Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other...
NATALIE MACMASTER

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.
NATALIE MACMASTER

I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.
NATALIE MACMASTER

There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if th...
NATALIE MACMASTER

I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def L...
NATALIE MACMASTER

I am a very musical person. I love music, and I don't just love Cape Breton fiddling, although i...
NATALIE MACMASTER

It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
NATALIE MACMASTER

When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the ...
NATALIE MACMASTER

Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.
NATALIE MACMASTER

The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is...
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same ki...
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

I believe in a tongue-first exploration of the world. Food is our most immediate daily relationship ...
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of cu...
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out...
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

I used to have a lovely Chelsea loft - then I got divorced.
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables...
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutel...
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It wa...
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the b...
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choo...
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are ...
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the s...
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

I'm a perfectionist.
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

When I'm passionate about something, I just get excited.
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't y...
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but y...
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't kno...
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get pe...
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure...
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was the WB. My age was perfect for it, but I just never came across as a youngster. I had to grow into my age in order to start working, and by the time I did, it was when things started to get good.

Natalie Zea

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