Marianne Elliott Quotes

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

At one point, I quit acting for a little bit to study psycholinguistics - somewhat a more practical career. It just didn't feel right.

I was at Sussex University studying English lit and philosophy, I had two essays due in and three seminars that day, and at the same time I was messaging my manager because I'd just started to put together the pieces of like, 'Wow. I really don't want to be doing any essays anymore. Why don't I just give this music thing a go?'

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.

Well, I think I've had a fairly meandering career.

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.

When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.

I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns.

I always wanted to do something completely different.

With 'Letters from Iwo Jima,' then 'Memories of Tomorrow,' I reached a sort of turning point in my acting. I had poured so much of myself into those movies that I really had no idea where to go from there.

By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?

'Paris, Texas' is the first film that I've totally cared about, the first movie I totally wanted to do - and that after 27 years that I considered my prison term.

I learned everything I know from leaving the E Street Band. And of course, one of the things I learned is, I never should have left.

I hope maybe somehow I won't be in this business all my life, and I won't be one of those women that's trying to, you know, save what she looks like... My work is about something completely different. It's about what's inside.

When we are caught up in the nature of our work and are asked to take on another job or position, rarely do we step back and ask ourselves, 'What do I really want to do? What is it at this point in my career and life that is important to me?'

I did have a midlife crisis.

I've changed my character 100 per cent; if not, I could never have become a manager.

I wasn't happy with how I left England. I didn't like where my mind was football wise. I felt like football was coming second.

My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn't the job. It had to be me.

For a long time, I thought, 'I'm not a TV presenter,' but now I realise there's no typical route into this business.

I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn't want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.

My manager always brings up this fact that when I was 10 and first met her I said I never want to do movies and TV.