Mary Gauthier Quotes

When you're nice, people like you and will want to work with you. But it can mean that they take you for granted.

I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of person.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

People understand the tremendous sacrifices that veterans have made - and they instinctively want to do something for them. And that sometimes leads people to give veterans an excuse: Oh, you didn't show up for work on time. It must be that you have posttraumatic stress disorder. Oh, you're disabled. Don't even try.

The set of '12 Years a Slave' was an extremely joyous one! We all recognized that we were making a powerful, necessary and beautiful film, and we weren't about doing it without that sense of responsibility, and we recognized that we needed each other to tell this story. We also knew we needed to hold each other up as we told the story.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us.

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.

Humility is what makes teams great. I've preached it for a long period of time.

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

I feel grateful that the person I end up working with a lot is Paul Rudd. He's a prince among men, and so talented, and generous, and effortless.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

He who gives love, receives love.

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

You can love someone but not want to keep a gift from that person. It's okay to pass an item along to someone who will appreciate it more.