JoBeth Williams famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.
-- JoBeth Williams

#Scripts #Concerned
I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.
-- JoBeth Williams

#Girl #Baby #Play
I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.
-- JoBeth Williams

#Mom #Thinking #Forever
I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.
-- JoBeth Williams

#Texas #Cities #Connections
I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.
-- JoBeth Williams

#Mother #Kids #Want
I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.
-- JoBeth Williams

#Mean #Thinking #Differences
You can't go through life without your heart being bruised or broken. Otherwise, you're not truly, fully, a person.
-- JoBeth Williams

#Women #Heart #Broken

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.
When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.
The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.
I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.
All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.
God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.
What I'm above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that's it really: I'm taking the pith out of reality.
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

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