"My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch. I was never really smitten by the business in those days, never a fan type--just a basic kid watching TV. It wasn't like I was an insider. I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's been a blessing and a downfall. But it's made my own work the initiation."

--

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#New York Quotes #Father Quotes #Kids Quotes

“Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.”

Source : Cecil Beaton (1957). “The Face of the World: An International Scrapbook of People and Places”
“Bread is a celebration.”
“You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out or something; it's the aeroplane you've hit . . . normally it was more of a game if you like, you were outwitting and shooting down another aircraft, you were simply hitting metal.”
“Here I found myself in my early 20s, at the height of my career, up against something I was totally powerless against. I had enemies I had never heard of because of this. I certainly didn't have needles hanging out of my arms, nor did I smoke anything.”
“I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!”
“Even places that have been shrouded in darkness for billions of years can be illuminated. Even a stone from the bottom of a river can be used to produce fire. Our present sufferings, no matter how dark, have certainly not continued for billions of years--nor will they linger forever. The sun will definitely rise. In fact, its ascent has already begun.”
“Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.”

Source : Eberhard Arnold (1997). “God's Revolution: Justice, Community, and the Coming Kingdom”, p.137, The Plough Publishing House
“Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.”

Source : Frank Lentricchia (2011). “The Sadness of Antonioni”, p.238, SUNY Press

You may also like:

Alma Gluck
Singer
Christa McAuliffe
Teacher
Daniel Craig
Actor
Doris Roberts
Actress
Gregory Harrison
Actor
Jack Scalia
Actor
Pierce Brosnan
Actor
Quinn Cummings
Actress
Stefanie Powers
Film actress