Christina Perri Quotes

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.

I never thought about being famous.

I still have drive, but everything is relative.

We're open people. I don't understand these Hollywood people who don't want to put their real life on TV, yet they want people to watch them and be fans with them.

I wish I had some stock in a scrunchie company.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

I'm obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it's all I can think about and all I can do.

'The Dark Knight,' 'The Rocketeer' and definitely the first 'Superman' movie by Richard Donner are the best. I tend to be softer in my judgment about what's a bad movie - I don't think anyone intends to make a bad movie, and sometimes it just doesn't click for some reason.

I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking and I would say I was thinking nothing. And it was true.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.

And I think people who sort of glibly say, 'Well, you know, they're not going to handle security, UAE is a great ally,' four and a half years ago, they were not an ally, they were working with the enemy, and if those same people are still there today that were there then, these are real serious issues.

Writing is not fun.

I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.

I no longer own or control the businesses which I have spent my life building up.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

The quickest way to be a little bit happier and more engaged in your job is to spend some time thinking about developing closer friendships.

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?