Michael Learned famous quotes

I never had a driving ambition to be a star.
-- Michael Learned

#Stars #Ambition #Driving

I used to pride myself on the fact that I kept a house running and never burdened anybody.
-- Michael Learned

#Running #Pride #House

I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever.
-- Michael Learned

#Mother #Television #Compassionate

As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.
-- Michael Learned

#Memories #Actors #Losing

For a long time, I resisted seeing The Sound of Music, but when I finally did, I cried.
-- Michael Learned

#Long #Sound #Sound Of Music

I dont mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, its pretty straightforward. If you say, I love you, you mean I love you. There isnt time for anything more.
-- Michael Learned

#Love You #Mean #Television

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.
-- Michael Learned

#Acceptance #People #Used To Love

All of us from The Waltons still love each other. I think were closer than some real families.
-- Michael Learned

#Real #Thinking #Real Family

I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.
-- Michael Learned

#Acting #Actresses

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.

Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.

Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.

Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full and glorious manner! Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!

Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.

The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.

When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!