Julia Louis-Dreyfus Quotes

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

There's so much paperwork that goes with changing a name.

I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.

My last night as Isabella Swan. Tomorrow night, I would be Bella Cullen. Though the whole marriage ordeal was a thorn in my side, I had to admit that I liked the sound of that. - bella swan

It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!

Our children are Grammers and it's easier to keep the Grammer last name because of them.

Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.

I decided to be this bearded lady in 2011.

I was a pretty good academic proofreader, I just wasn't good at keeping up with the paperwork.

I did my best to hide by changing my name many times. But I was captured by the Chinese police. But because my Chinese was so good, they thought I was Chinese and released me. That was a miracle.

There is nothing in a name. My husband, Santhosh Menon, called me Navya at first, which I did not like as it was my screen name. He knew me as Navya and found calling me Dhanya strange, so he came up with a pet name.

I had an instinct to take my husband's name when I got married. It felt like a romantic statement of pride, love, and permanence and of doing what's always been done in my family.

I can see how paperwork and foolishness can destroy something.

When I get to a certain level, I'll start going by Daystar.

I have no idea if I will go for an arranged marriage or love marriage.

Most people don't realize the amount of tax forms the small business guy has to go through.

I'm like, 'John, people treat me differently because they just look at me as a girlfriend,' and unfortunately, that's our world. Now all of a sudden - just within hours of him putting a ring on it and asking me to be his wife - it is crazy the level of respect people have for me.

I got married. My wife changed her name. I know some women have a problem with that. But I wanted her to have my old girlfriend's name. So call me old-fashioned, but this fella does what the Bible tells.

Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

In order to avoid any problem and to put it to rest, I will forever be known as Hillary Rodham Clinton.

My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget.

I said, "It seems like you have fond feelings toward your ex-wife. Are you two still close?" "Nah," he said casually. "She thinks I changed my name to Motherfucker."

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.