List of Nora Ephron Quotes

We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron
Total Quotes 197
One of the great things about movies is that it's just that short period of time. it's a bubble. the last thing you want to know is that elizabeth and darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants!
Fighting Want Lasts
I definitely divide my life into decades. almost every ten years, something in my work life has changed. my twenties were my journalistic phase, then there was my screenwriting phase, then i became a director, then i started doing some plays.
Years Play Twenties
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.
Littles Scripts Made
Having been married so many times, i know that one of the few things i am an expert in is falling in love.
Falling In Love Experts Married
It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. they have an infinite capacity to be shocked.
Running People Infinite
Another thing you end up doing when you get older, is you spend so much time sort of trying desperately to keep from just looking just a little older. you're just constantly putting stuff on your face and having things removed from yourself and opening up copies of "vogue" so that you can find new ways to throw whatever money you've managed to save into the arms of some doctor who has just come up with a new way of lasering your face that feels like electroshock and all these things.
Opening Up Doctors Trying
My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. so that's amazing. talk about powerful parents. my mother always said to us, "everything is copy."
Mother Daughter Powerful
Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. and i don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.
Mean People Denial
You can blame al gore and you can blame ralph nader and you can blame george bush, but i blame bill [clinton]. i just do. i just think he squandered his presidency the night that woman delivered that pizza to him, and if he hadn't, we wouldn't be where we are and there would be a lot of people who are alive today who aren't.
Night Thinking People
I'm not one of those people who think you should go grey and that there is some virtue in looking wrinkly if you don't feel like it. if you do, great. if you don't, just my only caution is watch out. there are a huge number of wrinkle creams that do nothing for you.
Thinking Wrinkles Numbers
When i was young, i had a list of things that i wanted in a husband. i knew what he should read and what sports he should like and blah, blah, blah. but the truth is, that the list was a shocking mirror image of me. you want to marry yourself when you are young. all the things you think are so urgently important, when you get older, you discover they don't have anything to do with love.
Sports Husband Thinking
You don't really have to believe what you write in a blog for more than the moment when you're writing it. you don't bring the same solemnity that you would bring to an actual essay.
Believe Writing Moments
  • Born: May 19, 1941
  • Died: June 26, 2012
  • Occupation: Journalist
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