My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in ...
AMY ADAMS Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I hav...
AMY ADAMS When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accuse...
AMY ADAMS I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. An...
AMY ADAMS That's the bottom line -- that no one gets hurt, no one gets injured, or hurts someone else while th...
AMY ADAMS [He also enjoys sharing the stage with] American Idol ... You know, she was thrown into a role that ...
AMY ADAMS It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition,
AMY ADAMS [His posse of longtime pals provides another outlet.] They carry on like your classic 'boys will be ...
AMY ADAMS Catch Me
AMY ADAMS It's a surprise to me, and not because I'm not proud of the work, ... But I've been out here 61/2 ye...
AMY ADAMS Ashley decided that before Madeleine even got there that she is the best person ever,
AMY ADAMS Ashley is a role for me.
AMY ADAMS He just shook his head,
AMY ADAMS I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meet...
AMY ADAMS Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life ...
AMY ADAMS Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning tha...
AMY ADAMS Some of these actresses or public personas who are very public about their disciplined diets, more p...
AMY ADAMS School was hard for me. If there had been a school for the creative arts, I might have thrived, but....
AMY ADAMS I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired m...
AMY ADAMS I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent beha...
AMY ADAMS In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very differe...
AMY ADAMS I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.
AMY ADAMS I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so hig...
AMY ADAMS I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films ...
AMY ADAMS It's a tough category to predict. I certainly don't expect to win. I don't typically prepare speeche...
AMY ADAMS I'm very excited to be here. It's much bigger than I expected.
AMY ADAMS What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake's got that. He ...
AMY ADAMS Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved...
AMY ADAMS I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate ...
AMY ADAMS I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I...
AMY ADAMS I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones a...
AMY ADAMS Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it&#...
AMY ADAMS It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of f...
AMY ADAMS Something I'm going to try to really instill in my own family is a lot of tradition. And, I used...
AMY ADAMS I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let g...
AMY ADAMS I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys ...
AMY ADAMS As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unatt...
AMY ADAMS I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.
AMY ADAMS Once I moved to L.A., there was a dark moment of trying to keep up with the girls I thought were pre...
AMY ADAMS I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And ...
AMY ADAMS I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The...
AMY GRANT It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old...
AMY GRANT You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea...
AMY GRANT Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we pla...
AMY GRANT The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
AMY GRANT Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd ...
AMY GRANT I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's somethin...
AMY GRANT Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much ...
AMY GRANT I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced...
AMY GRANT There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.
AMY GRANT I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just e...
AMY GRANT There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature...
AMY GRANT The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.
AMY GRANT But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with comp...
AMY GRANT I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a goo...
AMY GRANT Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the C...
AMY GRANT Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect,...
AMY GRANT Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.
AMY GRANT Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends...
AMY GRANT Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's sh...
AMY GRANT I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
AMY PURDY I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d...
AMY LEE I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
AMY LEE I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine ...
AMY POEHLER Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad thi...
AMY BLOOM Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conqu...
AMY CHUA Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel...
AMY GRANT My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset...
AMY BLOOM Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
AMY WINEHOUSE These people are the air I breathe and the blood I bleed. They are my courage. I will not let them d...
AMY EWING I think you can do anything you put your mind to
AMY EWING It would be easier to forget you," he says to me, "and these past few weeks we've had together. It w...
AMY EWING Violet’s eyes meet mine. I give her a look that tries to say, “What is wrong with these people?
AMY EWING Hope is a precious thing, isn’t it,” she says. “And yet, we don’t really appreciate it until...
AMY EWING Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evi...
AMY LOWELL I’ve swapped disco lights for celestial lights but I’m still surrounded by dancers. I am orbited...
AMY LIPTROT I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that...
AMY LEE China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined ...
AMY CHUA In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares...
AMY POEHLER The days of waiting for an outer authority to sanction your life path are over. Follow what matters ...
AMY MCTEAR It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a ...
AMY PURDY After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off...
AMY YASBECK Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the roll...
AMY HECKERLING Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she...
AMY LANDECKER Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz ...
AMY WINEHOUSE Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and...
AMY ALCOTT Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
AMY BLOOM The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
AMY VANDERBILT Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If w...
AMY VANDERBILT I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularl...
AMY VANDERBILT Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior....
AMY VANDERBILT When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!
AMY RYAN Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power an...
AMY CUDDY Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put i...
AMY HECKERLING If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.
AMY GRANT My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me (Tan is the author of what became T...
AMY TAN My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.
AMY JACKSON It's a growing recommendation that we need to provide access for all park users, especially in parks...
AMY VANDERBILT We don't really know much about their condition, ... other than that they had some bear bites and po...
AMY VANDERBILT but if they were, I don't think they used it. There just wasn't time.
AMY VANDERBILT They just looked up and there she was.
AMY VANDERBILT All books are either dreams or swords.
AMY LOWELL Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
AMY LOWELL I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I...
AMY WINEHOUSE When I look back at the pictures of our blended family the day Vince and I married, he and I are smi...
AMY GRANT In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are al...
AMY LOWELL All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words.
AMY LOWELL For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason w...
AMY LOWELL There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing O...
AMY LOWELL For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason ...
AMY LOWELL You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
AMY LOWELL Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind...
AMY LOWELL I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink dr...
AMY LOWELL Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying yo...
AMY TAN We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change ...
AMY TAN Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or sooth...
AMY GERSTLER Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his ...
AMY SEDARIS Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place ...
AMY PLUM God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing el...
AMY CARMICHAEL Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were ...
AMY SEDARIS You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
AMY BLOOM However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just c...
AMY POEHLER I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or ...
AMY POEHLER I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving ...
AMY ENGEL Share your voice and your heart. Listen to how it falls in with the cosmic symphony. Let it be imper...
AMY MCTEAR You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
AMY CARMICHAEL Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
AMY TAN Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not mere...
AMY VANDERBILT Even Pain pricks to livelier living.
AMY LOWELL If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
AMY TAN In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
AMY TAN Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
AMY TAN We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may ne...
AMY VANDERBILT Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
AMY LOWELL Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pre...
AMY CARMICHAEL A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
AMY LOWELL Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
AMY LOWELL Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story!
AMY LOWELL Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely...
AMY VANDERBILT Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL No animal is so inexhaustable as an excited infant.
AMY LESLIE Your true life is the one that would be the greatest gift you could give to others.
AMY MCTEAR Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
AMY DACYCZYN Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the wor...
AMY LOWELL Memory feeds imagination.
AMY TAN You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
AMY TAN Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it ...
AMY LEE I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have mor...
AMY KLOBUCHAR I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance a...
AMY KLOBUCHAR There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have...
AMY LEE Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's n...
AMY LEE When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8...
AMY ROBACH I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried pr...
AMY WALDMAN I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had w...
AMY CHUA Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me th...
AMY WALDMAN I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at al...
AMY POEHLER I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are g...
AMY PURDY When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. ...
AMY POEHLER The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins a...
AMY LEE In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In Amer...
AMY CHUA At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing a...
AMY TAN Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, tra...
AMY CHUA I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, st...
AMY POEHLER I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
AMY WINEHOUSE Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Spor...
AMY PURDY After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch ...
AMY POEHLER Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't tr...
AMY POEHLER I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd ba...
AMY HECKERLING I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don...
AMY GRANT When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on t...
AMY CHILDS Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This lo...
AMY TAN We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a lov...
AMY JACKSON Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappines...
AMY CHUA I just don't do the treadmill; I hate that. I do Pilates and yoga. I've recently joined aeri...
AMY JACKSON Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a...
AMY TAN I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, ...
AMY POEHLER I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my...
AMY SEDARIS As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other peop...
AMY POEHLER When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumst...
AMY TAN People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.&...
AMY TAN My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was ...
AMY TAN It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
AMY TAN I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what ...
AMY TAN I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of ...
AMY TAN I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to ...
AMY TAN There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being ri...
AMY TAN I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate obse...
AMY TAN My grandmother. She's someone I never met, and I would've loved to have met her. She's b...
AMY TAN I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
AMY TAN Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, bu...
AMY TAN I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the sam...
AMY TAN No one can travel your own road for you; you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems fro...
AMY TAN I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what'...
AMY TAN Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings...
AMY TAN God, life changes faster than you think.
AMY TAN A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them '...
AMY CHUA Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around...
AMY WINEHOUSE Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
AMY GRANT