Victoria Jackson Quotes (53 Quotes)


    Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?

    I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.


    Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.

    Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something.


    I do think that the heads of most of the projects out here are pretty totally liberal, pretty much anti-Christianity.


    I think they're afraid to confront the truth so they find all these stupid false religions, false gives them a good feeling or something.

    I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.

    Because I hate fake people and I always think I'm never fake.

    It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.

    I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

    It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.

    But, don't take anything out of context That's bad journalism too


    I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.



    So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.

    Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

    I have a very addictive personality and I'm very childlike, always wanting attention.

    That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

    Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.

    And so this year we've made a little experiment, we're trying to live bi-coastally.


    I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.

    We were supposed to be hip and wild and we were supposed to have this kind of mystiqueedge thing.

    I mean look at Madonna, there's a poster of her all over the world when she has a new album and I don't think they're any good. But there's a lot of PR.


    That was, my whole dilemma was that when I got my first movie part The Pick Up Artist, I was playing a loose girl.

    I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.


    It's very scary and the whole business is insecure and you get rejected a lot.

    I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.

    So I know how the acting thing works, I don't know how the record industry works.


    Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

    They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.

    I think the Bible is God's gift of salvation that He gave me because I trusted in Him when I was six years old. It was a gift and I didn't earn it.

    I don't think Christians can complain because my feeling is Make your own movies.

    There's a lot of money in Billy Graham's Association and in that Denver, Colorado thing, Focus on the Family. So, why can't we make Christian movies

    They don't care what you believe in IF you can make the money. There's no prejudice against any certain religion here.

    But the point is, yes, Hollywood is run by people most of whom aren't Christians.

    I didn't really leave show business. It sort of turned out that way because you can't have a career and live in Miami.

    I always wanted to be on a sitcom. Because it's a good job to have kids. You can see them in the morning, see them at night.

    It was so fun because church lady was, from the get-go, a huge hit.

    Especially actors are really guilty of that a lot of using anything they can to be looked at for their career.

    I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.

    And I used it to help me get my foot in the door in Hollywood because the handstand was my gimmick that no one else had.

    But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.


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