Lily Quotes

(On the Academy Awards, Connie Chung TV interview, 1990) "What do I care? I`ve made all the money I need to make. I won a couple of Academy Awards if I ever cared about that. I`ve been nominated I don`t know how many times and I`m in a position of respect and standing in my craft as an actor in this country. So what the hell, I don`t need to gild the lily."

Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, `Oh, I wish I did that!` I don`t think I`ve had a facial since I was 19. When I shave my legs, I use my child`s shampoo and a razor - if I can find one. If I did everything they said I did, I would never see Lily.

We had something recently when there were about 16 people in front of us taking pictures and Lily was enjoying the chance to legitimately shout at some grownups because normally she`s not allowed. But even when she shouted they didn`t stop. I find that shocking.

Suffered severe stomach pains and doubled over in pain. She was sent to her hotel room in London, England, UK, and later was admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with a severe gastroenterological disorder. She left the UK on August 24th. The sickness caused her to drop out of the (unreleased) film Lily and the Secret Planting (2002) and her part eventually went to Kate Winslet instead. Winona was said to have been very passionate about her role in the film and was heartbroken to leave. The incident brought to mind the similar 1990 stomach flu that caused her to drop out of The Godfather: Part III (1990) two days before filming began, causing a lot of controversy. (16 August 2001)

On his daughter, Lily-Rose: "I see this amazing, beautiful, pure angel-thing wake up in the morning, and nothing can touch that. She is the only reason to wake up in the morning, the only reason to take a breath. Everything else is checkers."

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

I swore I`d never do another hour show... until I read the first page of this script and I just hooked into Lily`s character so much and the writing.

She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That`s Lily.

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

Historically, Asian women have always been obsessed with wanting lily-white skin, which is associated with being of a higher class, as opposed to those who had to work in the field,

As visual metaphors go, it was a lavishly gilded lily of an image, a hanging curveball across the plate, a George Tenet-style slam-dunk: A weary President Bush, trying to escape a news conference in Beijing on Sunday, strides away from the microphone to a pair of locked doors, which he pulls and tugs in vain. No exit, the image screamed. No way out. Of course, George Bush will inevitably get out of the mess he has made -- he leaves office in three years and two months, not that anyone`s counting. But the rest of us will be left with his handiwork: crushing national debt, rising economic inequality, a poisoned political atmosphere and, oh, yes, the war in Iraq. We`re the ones trapped in the dark with no exit sign in sight.

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.

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.