Ali MacGraw Quotes

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Ali MacGraw

Profession : Actress

Birth : April 1, 1938

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

Ali MacGraw

I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.

Ali MacGraw

I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.

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I have this amazing life.

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I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.

Ali MacGraw

I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

Ali MacGraw

When one stops working at the height of one's career, it's just stupid not to say, 'I want to make sure I have a house.'

Ali MacGraw

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

Ali MacGraw

I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did 'Love Story', which came with this extravagant pop celebrity. I had already done 15 years of what I call 'real' work.' I was a waitress, chambermaid, and a photographer's assistant, so I knew that I was tremendously lucky as a novice actor to have that big hit.

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It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.

Ali MacGraw

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

Ali MacGraw

I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.

Ali MacGraw

If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

Ali MacGraw

I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.

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