Daisy Quotes

If I was to pick a cartoon character I am most like, I would say Daisy Duck, because she is very stubborn, she has a very feminine sense and she knows what she likes.

(When asked if he ever gets recognized for anything): "I have this young female demographic that recognizes me as the dad from My Girl (1991) and this older female demographic that recognizes me as the son from Driving Miss Daisy (1989)."

On her dog Daisy: "She goes with me everywhere. It`s preparing me to be a mother, I think."

You have to decide if you`re going to wilt like a daisy or if you`re just going to go forward and live the life that you`ve been granted.

(on the hoopla over homosexual slurs in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back") "Gay or straight has never been a big issue with me. Sex is sex, as far as I`m concerned. Some cats dig on the opposite gender, and some cats dig on their own. Sexual identity will always be as mystifying as why `The Dukes of Hazzard` was once the number one television show in our country: there`s no point in getting bent out of shape about it; it just IS. Some cats will always gravitate toward Daisy Duke, and some will always pine over Boss Hogg."

It`s a tricky character, right on the edge of Uncle Remus. But, I knew how to play him right away. I knew when I read it. I just saw him -- the dignity in the character. The only time I ever worried about it was when I was doing the show Off-Broadway, and all these Southerners would come back wiping their eyes and talking about how nostalgic it made them feel. How their grandmother had a chauffeur just like that. I was like, `God damn it! I made these people nostalgic for the good ol` days!` But, then, I had some black friends see it, and they said, `Oh, my grandfather was exactly like that.` So that made me feel okay. - On the character of Hoke in Driving Miss Daisy (1989).

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I`ve just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

That`s why you wanted to go to work in the morning, to watch Daisy Duke run around in those shorts.

Jessica`s Daisy Dukes are even shorter than Catherine Bach`s, which I honestly didn`t think was possible.

(The bottom line, according to the story, is that Jess got the gig because of her bottom.) She showed up in Daisy Dukes, ... I looked at her through the monitor and she was glowing.

When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.

She worries that Daisy`s going to get cold in the winter, so I brought this blanket over.

We were really ordinary people and we really owe a debt of gratitude to (their adviser) Daisy Bates and to our parents.

(Poppy and Daisy, meanwhile, can look forward to further immortalisation in a sequel to the book, which, feminist objections notwithstanding, has been on the top 10 bestseller list for several months.) I`d really like to do another one, from ages one to three, but after that there comes a time where you have to say, `That`s enough`, ... We don`t put them in adverts or anything, and I think when they go to school that will be that.

I feel as fresh as a daisy, as if I`ve not played a game so far. I`ve been going to bed early and getting up early, so far it`s paid off

The splendor of the rose and the whitness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it's scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its lovliness.