Mara Wilson Quotes

I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.'

It is as to whether its services or uses are to be exchanged or not which makes a tool an article of capital or merely an article of wealth. Thus, the lathe of a manufacturer used in making things which are to be exchanged is capital, while the lathe kept by a gentleman for his own amusement is not.

Money can't be cared about - it's got to be a tool that you use, because if you don't use it, it will use you.

In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.

Everybody gets excited about technology, but it doesn't interest me in the least. I'm only interested in it if it makes my job easier or cheaper. They're tools.

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

I do use my body a lot, to click into a character.

Meet customers where they are; question how to make the tools customers use more valuable.

I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.

I come down as an actor and my marks are already laid out on the floor - somebody else organized what I'm going to do. I think, why am I here? And why I'm here is to express the words with some sort of vague emotion and make them seem real. I wanted to go back to how it was before.

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.

When you dance intensely, you are really aware of your physicality, and that's always great to have as a tool, when you're an actress.

I love being challenged physically, as an actress.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

I have wrought great use out of evil tools.

An actress' best friend is a body which responds instinctively to thought.

I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.

Fourthly, the way of the artisan. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his tools, first to lay his plans with true measure and then perform his work according to plan. Thus he passes through life.

Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used in the same way as things are used. In the context of a civilization of use, woman can become an object for man, children a hindrance to parents, the family an institution obstructing the freedom of its members.

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.

I like being around actors. Imagine not liking actors.

There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.

I love stand-up more than anything, and I'm so happy to have found a way to use it in the show.