Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
I’ve had fans come and knock on my door. I’m usually polite, but I’m usually very direct and say, ‘It’s not cool that you come here uninvited.’
To die is as if one’s eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.
Just because you’re selling out shows doesn’t mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
I used to go to Sheen High Street with my dad on a Saturday, and there was a butcher next door to the fishmonger. I hated the smell of the fishmonger, but I found the smell of the butcher’s much more appealing. And I liked the big knives. I thought it looked like a decent job.
This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?
Fortunately, now I’ve got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.
Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson – from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.
I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn’t want to live next to me.
I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.
No one knows what goes on behind any front door.
My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we’d come back to the apartment – we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood – and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen.
I used to get nervous just going to the stage door, seeing people waiting to talk to me. I was afraid of being caught out in some way or not being right.
Men don’t know enough about being courteous toward women. You should get into a cab before a woman so she doesn’t have to slide across the seat. And you should always go first into a revolving door so she doesn’t have to push – unless it’s moving, then let her go first.
For me, Debussy is the door to all 20th-century music.
I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn’t me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.
I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.
Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.
No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn’t stop.
Either a player accepts competition or they say they absolutely need to play. For a player to have an open door, I have to have, at the same position, an element that is just as good or even better.
If there’s one thing special about me, it’s that I seem familiar. People feel like I live next door.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.
I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.
I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
