Ali MacGraw Quotes

• Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.

  Ali MacGraw

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• You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.

  Ali MacGraw

• 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

• 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.

  Ali MacGraw

• 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

• 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’m very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

  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.

  Ali MacGraw

• I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life.

  Ali MacGraw

• I don’t enjoy other people’s dramas, and I don’t enjoy mine.

  Ali MacGraw

• I can’t remember when I wasn’t an animal rights activist.

  Ali MacGraw

Ali MacGraw (12)

Birth:	1st April, 1939
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Actress, Model

About

Elizabeth Alice MacGraw is an American actress. She first gained attention for her role in Goodbye, Columbus in 1969, for which she won a Golden Globe Award, followed by Love Story in 1970, for which she received an Academy Award nomination and won a second Golden Globe. She married actor Steve McQueen in 1973, after appearing with him in the 1972 film The Getaway. After that, MacGraw did not make another film for six years and later retired altogether from show business. Ali MacGraw was born in Pound Ridge, New York, the daughter of commercial artists Frances and Richard MacGraw. She has one brother, Dick, an artist. Her father was of Scottish descent and her maternal grandparents were from Hungary. MacGraw's mother was from a Jewish family, but did not disclose this to MacGraw's father. MacGraw has described her father as violent.

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