Nora Ephron Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.”

“When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.”

“The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.”

“Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.”

“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.”

“My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.”

“I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.”

“I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.”

“As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.”

“With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.”