Ali MacGraw

Actress

34 Quotes

I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.

I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.

I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.

I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.

I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine.

I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did 'Love Story', which came with this extravagant pop celebrity. I had already done 15 years of what I call 'real' work.' I was a waitress, chambermaid, and a photographer's assistant, so I knew that I was tremendously lucky as a novice actor to have that big hit.

It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite.

I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.

Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.

I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look.

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

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