Quotes about Contentment, page 47

He wrote, You are a very good director, son, and I love you very much. Your dad. He had never used those words with me before. I passed that letter around the company. For without the company, the letter would never have been written.

Quote by Peter Fonda about contentment

Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about contentment

He'd gone back into the hospital and I knew this really was it. I thought, Here comes the test. Can we look each other in the eyes? He grabbed me by the shoulders. He said, I love you very much, Son.

Quote by Peter Fonda about contentment

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said, you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about contentment

I think the NAACP is trying to gather some momentum. But you have to have a direction. And the only people who can tell us the direction are the young people.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about contentment

I was comfortable. I knew we weren't Rockefellers, but it was never an issue because we went to places we needed to go - Coney Island, we went on the Circle Line, we had Central Park. There were things you could do without tons of money.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about contentment

If you read to me, I could tell you everything that you read.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about contentment

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about contentment

My mom told me. I'd forgotten it. She also tells the story of my birth. I'm almost half kidding when I say, I came out and waved. My mother says that I came out head, arm, other arm, thumb in mouth, immediately. They were astounded, because...

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about contentment

I realized, if you have to carry a card, you're not an independent.

Quote by Peter Fonda about contentment

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about contentment

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about contentment

There's only one me. And you know, they've tried to get others.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about contentment

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about contentment

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure. I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not...

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about contentment

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about contentment

Write things for yourself. Come on, it's a great way to spend time. It's a great way to learn history. It's a great way to learn all kinds of things. But only come if you're coming to play. If you're not coming to play, you should get another gig...

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about contentment

You have to come as an original. If you come in and you're imitating everyone else, you get swept away in the game. But if you're coming as one unto yourself, they can't replace you; they can only try to get somebody who's like you.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about contentment

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about contentment

You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about contentment