#us

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#addiction #board #center #columbia #columbia university

I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#been #driven #i #life #my life

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30. ↗

— John Cusack

#before #being #being famous #caught #famous

We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone - and the studio liked to kill us. They were threatened with cancellation of their production insurance. ↗

— Ken Curtis

#cancellation #did #insurance #jumping #kill

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#action #effort #energetic #exercise #force

I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#always #circus #day #great #i

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#another #because #become #been #career

The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#know #mind #movie #movie business #out

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#becomes #being #big #break #concentrating

I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#bad #country #enterprise #founded #free