Ali MacGraw Quotes

I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.

I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.

In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned.

When one stops working at the height of one's career, it's just stupid not to say, 'I want to make sure I have a house.'

Am I going to be able to be the person I want to be in this relationship?

There are so many kinds of love, and they're all very intense for me.

People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word.

I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life.

My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder.

I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.

You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.

I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants.

It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.

I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look.

I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.

I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine.

My ex-husband happens to be one of the most gifted moviemakers. And what is so bizarre about working with someone like that? I guess it is bizarre to be good friends with your ex-husband.

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.