Julia Child Quotes

Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn't get to be.

I have no idea what I’m doing, and that’s kind of how I love it.

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

I do tend to be almost kind of Pollyanna-ish person.

I'm a full disclosure kind of person.

I always joke that I'd like to be a cat 'cause then I'll have nine lives, and then I can do like everything. But that's really hard.

I am not the kind of person I want to be.

You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one.

Be the kind of person who takes supplements - then skip the supplements.

Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.

Never slow down, never look back, live each day with adolescent verve and spunk and curiosity and playfulness. If you think you’re still a young pup, then maybe you are, no matter what the calendar says.

I'm the kind of person [who] when I'm doing a play, and even when I'm working, I don't do anything else. When I'm working, I just work.

He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.

I'm the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous.

I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.

And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

The moment you decide that you're a grownup now, and therefore must put away foolish things like staying out all night or cruising down strange highways is the moment you will lose that ineffable glow of youth. If you don't believe me, look around. Study those people who would rather go to shopping malls than dance halls, who think the height of depravity is bidding two no trump with only fifteen points. Every single one of these people has a stringy neck.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

There are certain scripts that are just written in a way where, for whatever reason, I read it, and instantly that inspiration hit me and it was just kind of electric, and I didn't have to think about it. It just kind of went from there.

I'd forgotten how exuberant you are

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.

When you're 18, you're just so busy being scared and having fun - a crazy mixture - that you never thought of dying.

I'm a very kind of personable person and I love people.

A lot of actors lack confidence - even if you're doing really well, you kind of feel like this might be your last job. I enjoy the feeling of, "Maybe I've bitten off more than I can chew," and then working really, really hard and thinking, "Wow, I like that. I did that." Don't get me wrong, I'm not the kind of person who jumps out of planes and enjoys bungee jumping or anything like that, but I definitely enjoy living quite spontaneously and going with the wind.