Abandons Quotes

(on her role in Crossroads (2002/I), where she plays Britney Spears` mother, who abandons her daughter as a baby and later rejects her as a teen) It was one of the hardest jobs in my life. I had to be mean to Britney Spears. She is such a little Southern sweetie who is only 20. She was so nervous and so well-prepared, and I had to reject her on screen because I`m her horrible mother who has left her.

But when it really happens I`m very fascinated, I`m waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

As soon as someone abandons a property the clock starts ticking.

When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don`t feel very good.

He who abandons the field is beaten.

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.