Words matter. These are the best Ali MacGraw Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.
I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life.
I’m a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I’ve been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It’s my favorite.
I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.
People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word.
In film, there’s so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn’t quite come off in the perfect way envisioned.
I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I’m in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot.
My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder.
When one stops working at the height of one’s career, it’s just stupid not to say, ‘I want to make sure I have a house.’
If you’re a baby about the media, as I was, you can’t imagine what it’s like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.
It’s not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it’s how I want to be in 15 years.
I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look.
I think it’s tough when you’re very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.
Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.
There’s so much craziness that comes along with being a movie star that you can get so confused. Unless you’ve spent your whole life waiting to be the centre of attention, it’s pretty terrifying.
I’m very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.
I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.
I have this amazing life.
I’m in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.
I was really involved with other people’s opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don’t have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It’s not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.
I’m learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what’s working rather than look for the ‘what’s not working’ piece.
I had a romantic, ‘Aren’t I a good girl?’ take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.
I’m much more famous than I am rich, but I’m able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can’t imagine living any simpler, but I haven’t got a lot of expensive wants.
I’ve always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.
It’s been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.
