Dyan Cannon Quotes


Dyan Cannon

I don`t acknowledge age. I`m not afraid of what`s called age. The only thing that would ever frighten me would be losing my vitality or energy or the stars in my eyes or love for life. And I don`t believe that`s connected with numbers.

(on working with director Otto Preminger on Such Good Friends (1971)) I was warned about him -- but could anybody really be that bad? Yeah, they could. Elaine May wrote a great screenplay. He took a piece of beauty and screwed it up. It was an incredible part and he destroyed it. I have been the victim of some killers in my time. He`s one of the biggest. He`s a horrible man. Phew! But who ever hears of him anymore? Is he still alive?

I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God`s love is real.

God`s love doesn`t leave out Jews or Muslims or anyone.

I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life.

Have you ever noticed when you start getting happy, you say, uh-uh, I`d better watch out. I feel too good. Something`s going to happen.

I was going to go make a film in Greece. if they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles. I thought, what I am doing?

They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I`ll always love him.

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.

God uses whoever he wants.

Even when there are times that we`re not happy, happiness will creep in.

I was addicted to marijuana. I would have to have a puff off a joint before every take. I`d run out to the bathroom and come back.

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don`t think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.

Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself.

The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I`m just like you. I`m a human being and I have my problems.