33+ Ali MacGraw Quotes On Marriage, Steve Mcqueen And Dynasty

Ali MacGraw is an American actress, model, author, and animal rights activist. She first gained attention for her role in the 1969 film Goodbye, Columbus, and rose to international fame for her role in the 1970 film Love Story. She has since starred in numerous films, including The Getaway, Convoy, and The Winds of War. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Ali MacGraw on love, life, marriage.

Top 10 Ali MacGraw Quotes

1. Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.
2. I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.
3. You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.
4. I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.
5. I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot.
6. I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.
10. I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.

Ali MacGraw Short Quotes

• Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.
• I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look.
• Am I going to be able to be the person I want to be in this relationship?
• It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.
• I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.

Ali MacGraw Quotes About Love

Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty. — Ali MacGraw

I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite. — Ali MacGraw

There are so many kinds of love, and they're all very intense for me. — Ali MacGraw

Ali MacGraw Quotes About Life

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

I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again. — Ali MacGraw

There's so much craziness that comes along with being a movie star that you can get so confused. Unless you've spent your whole life waiting to be the centre of attention, it's pretty terrifying. — Ali MacGraw

I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life. — Ali MacGraw

Ali MacGraw Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Ali MacGraw

My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder. — Ali MacGraw

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut. — Ali MacGraw

My ex-husband happens to be one of the most gifted moviemakers. And what is so bizarre about working with someone like that? I guess it is bizarre to be good friends with your ex-husband. — Ali MacGraw

I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique. — 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

In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned. — 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 much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants. — 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 think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention. — Ali MacGraw

Life Lessons by Ali MacGraw

1. Ali MacGraw taught us to stay true to our values and beliefs, no matter how hard life gets.
2. She also showed us that with hard work and dedication, you can achieve your dreams.
3. Lastly, she showed us that age is no barrier to success and that you can make a difference in the world no matter how old you are.