Carice van Houten Quotes

While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read, except for screenplays of the episodes.

Usually, in a studio, when it's supposed to look cold, it's boiling hot. And then, the hot scenes, you're freezing.

Generally, I find the hotter the temperature, the cooler I am.

Actually, for me, it's really funny because I play characters with mommy issues more than anything, and I have a great relationship with my mom!

'The Vampire Diaries' is my favorite show, so being on it was cool. I really wanted to be on all of my favorite shows, so I was on 'The Vampire Diaries', 'Law and Order', and 'House.'

Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!

I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.

It's every little girl's dream," she said. "Interpol surveillance. And kittens.

People are very nice to me, even though I'm known for saying rude things.

Well...you're a martyr and I'm a patron saint-I can't think of anyone better!

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

I've always liked reading books that contain funny lines or situations, and maybe because my work is known chiefly for its violence and misery, I made a more conscious attempt with The Heavenly Table to do that myself.

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.

I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.

I am a beau in nothing but my books.

The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

I'd loved in so many bodies, but never one I loved like this. Never one that I craved in this way. Of course, this would be the one I'd have to give up. The irony made me laugh, and I concentrated on the feel of the air that popped in little bubbles from my chest and up through my throat. Laughter was like a fresh breeze - it cleaned its way through the body, making everything feel good. Did other species have such a simple healer? I couldn't remember one.

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.

I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.

I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter.

Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.