Dixie Carter Quotes (20 Quotes)

You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.

Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor.

When we first met, I was so impressed with him. But Hal took a dislike to me, just like his character in the play. Probably my Southern politeness, which he thought was kind of phony. It was only near the end of the shoot, when I was sick as a dog with the flu and I stopped trying to charm him, that he got over that dislike, and we started to laugh together.

I will not do humor that is derived from private parts or going to the bathroom. I won't do anything that involves making fun of people.

We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.

The show was written just for us. We all thought we were the prettiest and the funniest.

I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state.

We wanted to do another and kept saying we would. But we always had our bills to pay and our many individual commitments.

Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.

We're in a very, very fortunate situation where every week we have a full 'Impact' Zone out of Universal Studios-Orlando, and probably 90 percent of that audience is from all over the country and from different parts of the world. We're lucky that those people get to come to us.

The move to primetime on Spike is the most significant event in TNA Wrestling's short history. I am very proud of our entire team and all their hard work in achieving this milestone. Spike has been a fantastic partner, and we have accomplished so much together in just four months. We look forward to continuing to work with them to grow the TNA brand during this exciting time.

We will have some association with certain shows where they are featuring all TNA talent, and we are very, very confident that this is something where the company will be growing significantly over the next 12 months.

It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.

I can't remember when we didn't get along. Mother had a rule that if we fought, no matter who started it, she'd spank us both. We'd go to laborious pains to sneak off for a fight somewhere she wouldn't catch us, and by the time we got to the barn or wherever, we'd lose our steam and forget about it.

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

Every afternoon I listened to the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts and when I was four, I told my mother and father that it was my destiny to sing there, that I was going to sing at the Metropolitan Opera of New York City.

Women need to realize that jogging clothes are for exercise, and please don't wear black to weddings, y'all. Men, please don't wear shorts with your hairy legs sticking out. It is okay for sports or intimate situations.

I was born in a town of 200 people - it's 300 now, it's really grown - halfway between Memphis and Nashville, really the backside of nowhere.

I think they Spike were getting out of the wrestling business. Once you've had what you perceive is the top of the game, you think, 'I don't think we're going to go there from a programming standpoint.' But they were interested enough to take the meeting with us. I think from the very, very first meeting, they were intrigued by the uniqueness of our product, how innovative it was, how different it was from what they currently had on their air. They felt like, 'We could stay in this business and grow a brand together with a company who wants to work hand in hand with us.' Man, what could happen if two partners work together. They've been believers from the beginning. They're as excited about us being on Spike as we are.

I'm a nervous, middle-aged, I guess you'd say 'uptight' lady.