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Top 20 Olympia Dukakis Quotes (2025 Update)

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “Well, you know what they say: if you don’t have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!”

1. “Well, you know what they say: if you don’t have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “What you don’t know about women is alot.”

2. “What you don’t know about women is alot.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “I think it’s because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.”

3. “I think it’s because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what’s going on – about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.”

4. “Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what’s going on – about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that’s really the fate of many women today.”

5. “So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that’s really the fate of many women today.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.”

6. “Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “Rhythm of life runs in cycles there are times in the darkness and time in the light.”

7. “Rhythm of life runs in cycles there are times in the darkness and time in the light.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.”

8. “I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we’re not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don’t evolve.”

9. “Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we’re not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don’t evolve.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “When I was a kid, I’d kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.”

10. “When I was a kid, I’d kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.”

11. “Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We’ve learned certain skills, we’ve learned to prevail somewhat, but we’ve not made it over the mountain.”

12. “The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We’ve learned certain skills, we’ve learned to prevail somewhat, but we’ve not made it over the mountain.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.”

13. “God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He’s actually more of a feminist than I am.”

14. “My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He’s actually more of a feminist than I am.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “Winning is everything in Hollywood.”

15. “Winning is everything in Hollywood.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “I think we’re socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That’s hard to do.”

16. “I think we’re socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That’s hard to do.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.”

17. “Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “When my children were born, I didn’t have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin – something the Church said children got from their mother – and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.”

18. “When my children were born, I didn’t have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin – something the Church said children got from their mother – and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don’t think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.”

19. “I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don’t think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “I talk to women’s groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.”

20. “I talk to women’s groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.”

— Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Quote: “I feel it most in my work, because there aren’t roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that’s worth doing, would be a miracle!”

21. “I feel it most in my work, because there aren’t roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that’s worth doing, would be a miracle!”

— Olympia Dukakis

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