Top 79 Quotes & Sayings by Sean Hepburn Ferrer - Page 2

Her secret to happiness was simple and unpretentious. She had a beautiful house, would pick fruit and make jams, run the dogs in the fields, have a whiskey at five o'clock and cook a great plate of pasta. It wasn't complicated.

I'm always opening magazines and seeing pictures of her in advertisements. Or I'll be in a hotel room in Tokyo and there she will be, on the television. Or I'll be walking through an airport or driving along a freeway and there she will be on a billboard.

My mother always told me, 'I didn't make a perfume or go sell toilet paper. I did something good with my name.'

My mother used to tell me, 'I'm fake thin, but don't tell anyone.' I think part of her reputation for dieting too much was to do with her upper body and thoracic cage being thinner than average, thus her thin waist.

I've learnt to separate the woman who was my mother from the person who was a movie star. The star has survived, my mother didn't.

One of the reasons that fascism ascended to power so quickly was that it was considered socially elegant to support this new way of government.

We learned to separate, and accept the fact that my mother is gone, yet there she is on TV, on a billboard, sooner or later in a conversation, in a magazine on a regular basis.

It wasn't until I was 14 that I finally saw her films. We found an old 16-millimeter projector in the attic, put up a bedsheet - I ironed it myself - and watched reels that were given to her by Paramount.

I think that emotional marks are made early on. Even if you can rationalize them as you grow up, they still leave that dank sadness you can never truly shake.

Our mother believed in education above all.

I have a passion to make something that's good, not merely OK.

In her heart my mother much preferred the intense few days of shelling, which brought freedom, to the languishing fear she felt every time she stood by waiting for the Nazi troops and later for the SS to march by, singing their songs of victory and supremacy.

I don't feel like so many other celebrities' kids, who hate their parents for abandoning them.

I believe that you can't know courage without conquering fear, and you can't really know joy without knowing sadness.

Once the war started, my grandfather went to England, where he was under house arrest on the Isle of Man, and then to Ireland, but not to Germany. In no way did he, or my grandmother for that matter, ever support either the war or the Holocaust.

I also was deeply touched by 'The Nun's Story' because it was the first time I saw my mother in something other than a romantic comedy.

My stepfather was a brilliant and funny psychiatrist but he was a hound dog. He just didn't know how to be faithful.

I remember being mesmerized by 'Love in the Afternoon,' with Gary Cooper.

Communism and fascism were born out of frustration with an establishment that still knew royalty and possessed very few of the characteristics we commonly attribute to democracy today.