Nora Ephron Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.
I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories the next.
When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.
I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think.
What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.
These days most women have jobs that last way too long. A lot of people in New York barely have time to get laid.
All I do when I write scripts is think about food: 'Have I worked long enough to justify a walk to the kitchen?'
Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.
I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.
That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.
When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else.
I'm religious about salted butter. I don't understand how it happened that everyone thought we should all have sweet butter. I blame the French.
Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person ... Reading is bliss.
The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.
I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you're lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it.
Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at
Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.
Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.
That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.
Of course, everyone has something wrong with him, that's for sure, but this guy probably had something really wrong. Perhaps
I discovered then that the world I was living in was so much more interesting than the world I was capable of conceiving.
I think the hardest thing about writing is writing.
[Interview clip in the In Memoriam section of the 85th Academy Awards ceremony, Feb. 24, 2013]
[Interview clip in the In Memoriam section of the 85th Academy Awards ceremony, Feb. 24, 2013]
Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.
I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right.
If your husband is cheating on you with a carhop, get Meryl Streep to play you. You'll feel much better.
I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.
As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
In a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.
I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.
Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken.
I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted
most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.
most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)
One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are.
The best divorce is the kind where there are no children. That was my first divorce. You walk out the door and you never look back.
Having been married so many times, I know that one of the few things I am an expert in is falling in love.
My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending.
We know in one part of our brains that we are all going to die, but on some level we don't quite believe it.
Checked out the mirror to see if I looked older, or sadder, or wiser. I didn't; I just looked tired.
I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.
Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.
Your hair doesn't need to be washed every day any more than your black pants have to be dry-cleaned every time you wear them.
I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.
It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.
Directing movies is the best job there is, that's all. I can hardly say a word after that. It's just a great job.
Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.