Alice Hoffman Quotes

I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.

Who has sent you against me? Who has told you to do this thing?

Something smells fishy and they say it's you, all I know is that you made it with the whole damn crew.

I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do.

Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him.

I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

Maybe because I'm a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

An excuse is sometimes more ugly than guilt.

I tend to be a fairly spirited person, but I've never hated anyone more than I hated Christian Longo after his trial, when I realized his guilt and that I had been partially duped.

Often, when cheating happens, we rush to place blame solely on one person - either the person who did the cheating, or more insidiously, if it happened to us, we blame ourselves for not being 'good enough' to keep them around. But putting it all on one person doesn't paint the entire picture.

I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.

When I was writing 'Trick it,' the inspiration for this song came out of nowhere! The song is about the little white lies you tell to people you care about, even though you can always tell the truth.

We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

Every time you come in from cheating on someone, they'll just whip out the most adorable term of endearment. Like, they'll wake up, bright and early, sleep in their eyes and say: "Hey, perfect."

So I would only feel guilt if I misled somebody who was terrible.

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.

I feel responsible for Johnny Ray's success. See many years ago I asked him to be on my show and he asked for a lot of money and I cried. And he stole that from me.

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.