Robin Wright Quotations

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

You're never going to be able to delve into the character traits of a Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton.

I can't stop moving. I'm like this weird insect. I can't sit still in real life.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I can't imagine having long hair anymore; it's weird.

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

No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty.

The best part of shooting 'House of Cards' in Baltimore is eating lots of soft-shell crab.

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.

My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom

If you're the head of a business, there's a protocol that people have to follow.

I think we manifest the very thing we put out. If you're putting out negativity, then you're going to retrieve that same sentiment. If you emanate joy, it comes back to you.

I grew up very fast as a young girl, but I grew slowly into my womanhood.

You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised

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

We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together.

Electronics companies are purchasing the minerals that come out of the Eastern Congo, and they are illicit; they're dirty.

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

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

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

Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22.' It's endless. They're all in this gigantic pile next to my bed.

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

I didn't want to commit to a TV show.

I didn't want to raise my kids in this weird, sycophantic society. If you have celebrity parents, it's not a good recipe for the kids, or anyone at any age.

I dislike arrogant men and diva behavior in either gender.

Learning what you don't want is how you know what you do want.

Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting.

Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.

I wouldn't be a good model for any designer's idea of what fashion is.

I always wanted to get out of L.A., but time passes, and you find excuses to stay.

I eat at In-N-Out Burger every chance I get.

From the time I was wee big, my mother was one of the first members of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Women going door-to-door and letting housewives have their own business - that was really a breakthrough. It was huge.

I don't want to always be the tortured, soulful wife.

If 'American Beauty' came out today, it wouldn't make nearly as much money.

I hate everything I do. I hate my voice. I sound like a guy.

I have a house here in California and come back every month and a half to see my kids. And they come to New York.

What I'm looking for in people now is kindness.

I have Spanx on. Always! I have to wear them all the time!

I always look for variety. I always want to run the gamut.

I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that.

I'm a hedonist when it comes to culinary delights.

Hollywood is difficult to navigate if you have integrity, so I opted not to work if there wasn't enough to do in a role, which doesn't have to do with the role's size.

My son graduated high school and went to Haiti to work for his dad's organization and then extended his stay. It's incredible what he's doing.

My mother liked to buy houses, fix them up, and turn them over. We'd live somewhere for a few months and then move to another house, sometimes just two blocks away.

That character called 'Robin Wright' in the movie called 'The Congress' has nothing to do with me... I've never felt that way about life choices, career, etc.

I run, lift weights and do yoga to stay in shape.

I think I've always been waiting for things to happen.

I think just by watching him, like, 'Let's get on with it. Let's just shoot the scene, and we're done,' which seems logical.

I tell you, being on a soap is the hardest work, and it gets so old. Get on your mark, get in the light, don't turn too far upstage - that's all it is.

I wish I were stronger in areas. Not so consumed or distracted.

Just lying in my big bed with Frette sheets. Oh my god, there's nothing better.

I think the inception of my interest in arts was when I was around 9 or 10 and I started dancing. I was really convinced that I was going to go to New York and be onstage in 'A Chorus Line.'

Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing.

We viewed this as a very clear case of theft.

Would I marry again? No. But never say never. Why marry? It's a beautiful fortress, but I don't need it.

Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating.

I've been told I've done a lot of flop movies. And I think, 'Wow, I've never considered them flops!' I've loved every character I played.

I secretly want to skydive, even though it's my greatest fear!

The word 'demand' is a tricky word when used by our gender. When used by men, it's part of their vernacular.

The seasoned woman is going to offer a more seasoned character.

With 'House of Cards,' you really get the heart and the meat of drama - and it's a thriller!

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.

People buy box sets, and they sit for a whole weekend with a computer on their lap in bed, and they watch two seasons back-to-back of a show. They are invested in the person within that arc or the dynamics of those people - the relationships - and it doesn't matter to them if they're watching it on an iPhone or a cinema screen.

Famous is celebrityism, and I don't want that... I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are. I can't imagine living that life, but I don't think I consider myself famous.

D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.

Running gets everything done, doesn't it? Covers it all.

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

The revolution of electronics hasn't taken away the good smell of books. It's really hopeful to see.

I've always been a T-shirt, Levi's, leather jacket, and combat boots kind of girl.

You never accomplish everything you want to accomplish.

I'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.

I'm the homemaker, and that's fine with me because I really like that.

I'm trying to do the paleo diet. No carbs.

I'm worried that the audience is being conditioned. That's my real fear. Because if they don't want to see wrinkles on the screen, if they actually fear looking at them, then it's only going to get worse. Those of us who don't want to shoot up and cut and sew, we're just not going be cast.

I'm not up there with Kate Winslet and Julia Roberts. I don't sell tickets. I've known that for a long time.

If there's nothing for me to do as an actress, then that's frustrating. I'd rather go work at a menial labour job, where I can actually get my hands dirty.

I'm really trying to be in the now - that's so spiritual and stuff. It's just so much more pleasant and sane.

Oh my God, Zumba is the greatest invention ever for women. I like to exercise, though I do nothing consistently because I get bored and impatient. With Zumba, you're dancing, you're moving your hips. So much fun.

I met an agent through my modeling agency who encouraged me to go out and audition for sitcoms, and I was absolutely petrified because I had no desire to do it.

I'm not in the business of talking about what 'isn't.'

I'm not exactly the type of actress who does half a dozen films a year.

I'm ready to do a Woody Allen comedy.

It took me a long time to grow up.

They definitely get very eloquent sometimes. I'm always so amazed at how insightful they are.

I just pray I can keep working. I just pray I grow old gracefully.

I remember calling directors numerous times and saying, 'Oh, you should cast so-and-so instead of me. They're much better for the role.'

I really wanted to be a mom. I didn't want my kids to be raised by a nanny, which would have been the case if I were working two movies in a year, you know? And I would have been hospitalized with fatigue.

I never went to college. I was pregnant at 23.

I never used to want rehearsals, because I was like, 'Oh, no. I'm more spontaneous. I'm a natural. I'm a one-take person.' But that was because I didn't have any training. I was going off instinct.

As an actor, I had noticed very vividly that very few directors know how to direct actors because they haven't done it.

A great life is to be able to ebb and flow.

You can't get better at something unless you evaluate how well you are doing.

You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.

For actors in Hollywood, it's very straightforward. We're well-paid animals in a zoo.

It's just never been in my nature to go out there and go on a red carpet to say, 'Oh, publicize me!'

This was pure terror. And the seeds that we now see played out in so many countries in so many parts of the Islamic world,

They're good kids and they love to read.