Robin Wright's Quotes

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do.

I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge.

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day.

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.

Home is where the heart is.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

Truth comes out in wine.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

There is always something new out of Africa.

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.