Minnie Pursling Quotes

I earned this, fair and square. We'll, maybe it hadn't been fair. And maybe it hadn't been precisely square. Still, she'd earned it legally. Legally and ... rectangularly. That would have to do. ~ Courtney Milan

He felt as if he'd woken up, weak and confused, only to be told that he'd spent the last three weeks in bed with a fever
and that during his illness, Queen Victoria had abdicated the throne and run off with a lion-tamer from Birmingham. The world seemed an entirely different place. ~ Courtney Milan

This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism. ~ Minnie Maddern Fiske

God, she's growing up, and I don't know when it happened, man. I used to buy her Minnie Mouse panties and little Winnie the Pooh underwear. I was helping my wife fold cloths. I picked up a pair of skimpy underwear. I looked at my wife and said: When you gonna wear these for me? She goes, I can't. They're your daughter's. Aaahh! No, no, no! There was nothing to them! The how-to-wash tag was the biggest piece of cloth on there. ~ Bill Engvall

His voice dropped to a low murmur, and he leaned down so that he was almost whispering in her ear. "You see, there's this woman."
She wasn't going to look at him. She wasn't.
"Normally, one might say that there was a beautiful woman - but I don't think she qualifies as a classical beauty. Still, I find that when she's around, I'd rather look at her than anyone else."
He set two fingers against her cheek, and Minnie sucked in a breath. She was not going to look at him. He'd see the longing in her eyes, and then ...
"There's something about her that draws my eye. Something that defies words. Maybe it's her hair, but I tried to tell her that, and she told me I was being ridiculous. I suppose I was. Maybe it's her lips. Maybe it's her eyes, although she so rarely looks at me. ~ Courtney Milan

I mean," Minnie continued, "I don't have a problem with anyone who has a disability and wants to find a cure. But I'm good." "Don't you get it?" Flexis argued, "I'm giving you the chance to be normal!" "Your definition of normal severely contradicts mine," Minnie quietly said. Victor's ~ Burgandi Rakoska

As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young. ~ Minnie Driver

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be. ~ Minnie Driver

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie? ~ Billy Wilder

That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling! ~ Minnie Pearl

You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things. ~ Minnie Maddern Fiske

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot. ~ Minnie Pearl

Mousy. It was the only word Travis could think to describe Mary Warner when she stepped off the plane. His heart sank and took a moment to rally itself. Long legs, that was all he'd asked for, and what did he get? Minnie Mouse. ~ Debbie Macomber

Growing up, I thought I'd have at least five kids. ~ Minnie Driver

I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him. ~ Minnie Driver

It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world. ~ Minnie Pearl

I want a regular pay cheque. ~ Minnie Driver

They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse. ~ Minnie Pearl

Above all, ignore the audience. ~ Minnie Maddern Fiske

It's like everyone I have dinner with, I'm having an affair with. Who was it I met the other day? Minnie Driver! She seems charming, but that's the only time I've met her. ~ Mick Jagger

I think she'll fit quite well. As wives go, Miss Pursling will be just like these books. When I wish to take her down and read her, she'll be there. When I don't, she'll wait patiently, precisely where she was left. She'll make me a comfortable wife, Ames. Besides, my mother likes her. ~ Courtney Milan

My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country. ~ Minnie Pearl

As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way. ~ Minnie Driver

I can always remember that experience in Hawaii pleasantly on account of Elvis. ~ Minnie Pearl

I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor. ~ Minnie Driver

President Obama was in Disney World today where he unveiled his new plan to create jobs. He was joined by Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse but not Goofy. He had to stay behind to tend to his vice presidential duties. ~ Jay Leno

I haven't been disingenuous in what I've said describing my perception of "truth" and "reality." Certainly, I understand what is generally meant to be the "truth," I understand this notion, but it's not something I trust in, OK?

The only answer that feels true (I said feels, not is) is that yes, the character Minnie is me, but she is not me. She is a projection of some tumult which originates within me, but she is not me. I use elements of myself, including my likeness, for the character, perhaps as Cindy Sherman uses herself in her work, but like Sherman's photographs, the work itself is not any more about the creator than it is about everyone. I won't deny that Minnie does things I have done, and that things happen to her that have happened to me, but she, unlike me, having been created, is who she is and will remain so, unchanged now. I make no attempt to create "documentary." There is a process of dissociation that takes place when I make a story, I make creative decisions in a fugue state that I could hardly describe to you, but the end result is, I hope, a story with some meaning or resonance, something created, with a beginning, a middle and an end, an encapsulation of feeling and impression, but in no way a documentary of anything other than an "emotional truth."

If I told most interviewers that my work is "true" and that it is based on real events that occurred in my life, they would more readily accept this than they do the explanation I try to ~ Phoebe Gloeckner

People seem to like this image of me being all boho and hippy. It's either that or I'm down on my luck, I've got no money, the work's dried up. ~ Minnie Driver

An actor is exactly as big as his imagination. ~ Minnie Maddern Fiske

My sister's voice is Minnie Mouse and a dash of fingernails down a chalkboard, but only when she wants to bend me to her will. ~ Alex Adams

Took out Skinny Minnie, Long Tall Sally, and Short Fat Fanny, but I'm kinda fonda Wanda. ~ Neil Young

Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will. ~ Minnie Maddern Fiske

She used to wear pretty clothes and be lively, when she was Minnie Foster, one of the town girls singing in the choir. But that - oh, that was thirty years ago. ~ Susan Glaspell

Cats don't forget. Cats know when they are needed and loved. These two would be better medicine for Minnie than anything that came out of a pill bottle.
p. 284 ~ Leann Sweeney

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out. ~ Minnie Driver

He thought that they were walking there like Mickey and Minnie Mouse and that they probably appeared ridiculous to the passers-by. ~ Ayn Rand

Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone. ~ Minnie Pearl

We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things. ~ Minnie Pearl

Since religion was so much a part of my life as a child, and since my childhood was so happy and so full of laughter and joy, I associate the two. Even my concept of Jesus goes along with this association of happiness and religion. ~ Minnie Pearl

I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go. ~ Minnie Bruce Pratt