Kelly Bishop > Quotes

“There's no way to prepare for what somehow felt so sudden. He was here. Then he wasn't. He never would be again. And there was nothing I could do about it.”
― Kelly Bishop

“Don’t cry because you think your best days are gone. Smile because you had them in the first place.”
― Kelly Bishop

“Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl

“Lee did his damnedest to take care of me while I healed, but nothing made quite as much of a difference as the day he looked at me and said, “I love you so much it makes me want to cry.” Pain or no pain, walker or no walker, I’d never felt so powerful and so invincible in my life as I did in that moment. I still relive it, and it still fills me up.”
― Kelly Bishop

“The answer is always no unless you ask, so I went straight to the producer and announced, 'For the record, I really want to do that role...As I headed for the door, I added, not for effect but because I really meant it, 'By the way, if I don't end up playing Ouisa, I won't be understudying her anymore...I ended up getting the role of Ouisa.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl

“From childhood on, not wanting children was as unapologetic a fact about me as my ethnicity, and I was just as unapologetic about it as an adult, which put me on the receiving end of such mystifying reactions as ‘You don’t really know what it’s like to be a woman until you have children’ and ‘Are you a lesbian?’ Well, yes I do, and no, I’m not, so take it or leave it.”
― Kelly Bishop

“In the end, I’ve come to the conclusion that as long as I’m comfortable with myself, my work, and my life, I don’t feel compelled to apologize for the fact that this is how old I am, and this is what I look like.”
― Kelly Bishop

“If it’s meant to work out, it will. If it isn’t, it will just make me available for what I’m supposed to be doing instead.”
― Kelly Bishop

“Whatever maternal instincts I was born with were exclusively limited to taking care of animals - other thank that: no thanks!”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl

“Lee and I didn't just become husband and wife that day. We also became partners, lovers, companions, and best buddies who were always supportive of each other, even when work forced us to be apart for a while.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl