Maude Adams Quotes

It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

People have a tendency to do that - to go the polar opposite of what they've done before if they've felt like they've done something wrong.

I think, hey, everybody has a right to change their mind.

I think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've visited this territory. This isn't for me.' And then I read the script and I said, 'You know, this is completely something different. This is a whole new life.'

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.

I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.

They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.

And there was a movement afoot to take another year off, and if we had been able to do that, and rethink everything, I think when we came back it would have been very different.

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

There are certain storylines I shouldn't have done, there are certain actors I shouldn't have cast - guest stars, I mean.

I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything.

I decided I would never do interviews again.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

I also held that view for about 50 years, but lately I have been rethinking it and now believe I was wrong.

Let nothing prevent you from changing your previous decision if after consideration you feel that the previous decision was incorrect.

Enough! We cannot live like this any longer. Everything must be done in a new way. We must reconsider our concepts, our approaches, our views of our past and our future…. It is simply impossible to live as we have lived before—intolerable, humiliating.

I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.

We never invent new reasons to continue with a position when the original reasons are no longer available.

As far as my absence from the public eye is concerned, that's because I'm publicity shy - something which is not considered good nowadays.

I'm not the interview-giving kind.