Christine Ebersole famous quotes

03-26-2025

I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and really saw the funny in stuff, so I think that's probably where it came from. I always try to see the funny in things.
-- Christine Ebersole

#Mom #Dad #Thinking
In 1998, the acting roles suddenly bottomed out. I was no longer getting scripts; even my agent stopped calling. When I finally got him on the phone to ask him what was going on, he paused, then said: 'Well, Christine, you're 45.' I got rid of him.
-- Christine Ebersole

#Phones #Acting #Roles
When barriers are put in front of you, it's God or the universe asking you to remember who you are, and reminding you not to let yourself be defined by things outside of you.
-- Christine Ebersole

#Remember Who You Are #Asking #Barriers
To transform the world women need to strive for authenticity.
-- Christine Ebersole

#World #Authenticity #Strive
I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive.
-- Christine Ebersole

#Crazy #School #Intelligent
It's really vital to have rock music because it connects the generations. It's important in that way.
-- Christine Ebersole

#Rocks #Important #Generations

My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

Christine Ebersole famous quotes

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