Kate Ashfield Quotes

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing.

I'm not an actor who can constantly pick and choose, I try to get the best of what's there.

I still don't think I'm a good actor. The only reason I'm doing it is because I've got a lot of support behind me.

I know that some people have different personas for the different things they do, and I'm not criticizing that - maybe it's a good thing - but I'm the same old person, so I take everything in stride.

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

I am willing ... when I cannot get all I wish, to take what I can get.

That is what all of us must learn to do in the United States; to limit objectives, to get ourselves away from the absolute, to find out what is within our powers.

I learned over time that you do not go for the perfect solution….You do what is doable and then you want to try and do a little bit more.

An ideologue believes that what is right will work. A pragmatist believes that what works is right.

I learned a long time ago in politics, never say never.

I am weird that I love auditioning.

Americans are very practical folks. Accustomed to hard choices in their own lives, they are willing to give us in intelligence a lot of slack as we make the hard choices our profession demands.

When I first started out acting, I didn't have anything to lose. I had another career. If I fell on my face, I could say, 'I'll see ya,' and go back to working.

I am insecure about tomorrow. Will I get another job? Will it be appreciated? I will pursue acting for as long as I have a face and body that is acceptable to the people, but I still worry that if I don't do better tomorrow, it will all go away.

There's different ways to win in this league. It's not always going to be pretty.

I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.

I would have prepared differently before big matches but I wouldn't change my life.

I'm progressive, and I'm practical.

I'm pragmatic.

I'm trying to just take things as they come, not to try to expect too much, just do my job and hope things work out.

When I was 14 and went on the stage for the first time, it stimulated me so much that I was convinced that I didn't want to do anything else.

Never expect anything, but plan for everything.

Indeed, in foreign policymaking, inconsistency is often a virtue. I speak not of principles but of policy.