Lisa Whelchel Famous Quotes

 
I’m not the only actor on this island!

• My name is Lisa Whelchel and I played the character of Blair Warner on the show called The Facts of Life.
• I'm a huge fan of survivor and I've never missed a show.
• Not only have I not ever miss a season, I never missed a show.
• I don't know if I have what it takes to play the cut throat game.
• I'm an introvert by nature. I don't do well with chit chat.  I'm just not very good at that.  I'm very very shy, so if I'm on a stage, I can be behind a role, but in real life, my tendency is just to withdraw and not let anybody in.
• I don't feel like I'm fitting in. I'm already on the outside and don't really have somebody that I can trust or talk to, I've been on my own since I was 12 when you know I moved to California to be on The Mickey Mouse Club and I left my family. I'm very used to just taking care of myself, so I think in real life I'm trying to learn to open up and trust more and depend on other people, but this is not the place to experiment with that.
• It's hard being on the outside, and, you know, maybe I'm just not able to play this game.
• Peter wanted to blindside Mike, and I would prefer to blindside RC. But Peter is the one that is calling it, so I need to lay low and go with him.
• Today I'm up but I'm consciously up.
• You have nothing to do out here but think about different scenarios and how they might go, specially when it's raining non-stop.
• More of my energy is gonna go into just blowing a little oxygen on some fire over here and let them flame out, for me so that I don't have to be the one that takes the heat.
• We were just lying around thinking it was going to be a long day, and all of a sudden,we saw this boat, and we thought ok is it coming into the cove?
• When you only have 10 minute to gather up everything you have,everything is like gold.
• I picked up Malcolm’s bag and I took his flannel shirt out and I took his bathing suit out, I was looking in there and I felt something. I discovered he had the hidden immunity idol in his bag, which totally shocked me.
• I’m not the only actor on this island!
• Penner is aware of my past as a child star but we didn’t talk strategy.
• Everybody is so galvanized against Penner because they really don't want returning players having a second chance. And they feel very strongly that they want Penner and Skupin gone first and second.
• For my game, I want to stay with Tandang, but I have no qualms about making this battle to win a million dollars a little easier if it’s within my power.
• Once Penner and Skupin's gone, Jeff, Carter, Denise, Malcolm and I will then target the three that everybody doesn’t like. Which would be Artis, Pete and Abi.
• Certainly the idea of battling it out at the end with four other worthy opponents is such a noble choice, but I am discovering that I am not just trying to get to the final five, I’m trying to win, which means I first need to get to the final three with as many people that aren’t gonna get more votes than me as possible. I mean That’s just how you get ahead.
• The same rules don’t apply in the game of Survivor as they do in real life.
• I anticipate that after Penner goes home, someone's gonna wake up and realize that this is the time to do a five-four alliance.
• It makes much more sense to me and Skupin to go to the end with Abi and Artis and Pete, because they have made so many enemies and they have made so many hot head emotional moves that have ticked people off.
• I have a plan that assures him that he does not need to scramble and make alliances with somebody else that is gonna promise him the world because I am gonna promise him the universe.
• I tried to make a big move, I tried to play the game like a real survivor. It’s just not me. And I lied and I betrayed and I broke promises.
• I love this game but I think it’s too big for me... It’s bigger than me.
• I know that Penner is always scrambling to find a way to stay, but he's really struck something very very deep, this internal conflict.
• My whole life has been based on public perception, you know I lived my life on the stage since I was seven years old, and even before that learned to get love by performing and being good and being likeable.
• If I do the wrong thing, will I still be ok? If I am not liked or I'm judged, will that be ok? Can I survive? Not being, you know... little miss Perfect?
• I don’t even know what to think now.
• I like Jonathan so much, I've learned so much from him out here.
• I want to stay loyal to Tandang, I want to be able to say from the beginning I was loyal to Tandang. But if Tandang is no longer loyal to me, then am I being exactly what Abi accuses me of being? Gullible and naive?
• The proverbial poop hit the fan, and the fan was pointed toward me, and it landed on me.
• My life is bigger than this game, and this game is bigger than me".
• I have never been good at breakups. I have continued in relationships way too long just because I didn't want to hurt them.
• The really wonderful thing is i do believe I'm taking control of my own destiny.
• I'm sorry, but it is really hard not to laugh at some of the things she says.
• There's a saying in the bible that says, "don't throw your pearls before swine." I'm not calling Abi a pig, but at some point if someone is not gonna value your words, then you don't keep giving them to that person.
• I'm just not cut out under this game. It's too big for me.
• I love this game, and I want to be a good player.
• I would say go do your magic that you do. (To Jonathan Penner)
• Whatever I do is gonna hurt people that I care about.
• I think Penner is correct. I do think Malcolm is playing a brilliant game. Because it's strategic but likable, underdog, good at challenges. All around really great game.
• Going to the end with Malcolm and Denise is not a great strategy. But betraying that trust is... opposes who I am.
• I do know it's a game and I love this game. But I haven't been able to step outside of who I am outside the game to play the game.
• Lord, we don't propose to guess Your will as much as we ask that you would bless this plan, and protect it and if you want Malcolm to win or Carter or Denise or even Abi, we want Ultimately your will to be done.
• So bummed! I was so ready to play this game hard and make a big move and poof. And Malcolm wins immunity! And Lisa's plan is shot into smithereens!
• I voted for you.
• I have tried to be kind. I have tried to be understanding.
• Cuss at me, do whatever you want, it has no effect at this point. I don't care.
• Carter is just one of the nicest guys you'd ever want to meet.
• I don't believe Abi for a second, but I need Abi close whether we keep her or she goes to the jury.
• That is the relationship I have with Abi. It's one to use her for my best game plan.
• I do believe I'm taking control of my destiny, but part of taking control of my destiny is waiting to the right time to make my big move.
• We dove in like navy seals, and the guide grabbed my hand, and he points. And then out of the blue, I mean literally, poof. This humongous whale shark appears. And it's so big it never ends. It just keeps swimming and keeps swimming, keeps swimming.
• Since my brother came out, he really did kind of recalibrate me. And tonight's decision for me is based purely on strategy, purely on planning out all the different scenarios, which tradeoff is gonna cost me the most, and which tradeoff is gonna reward the most.
• Battling Malcolm with an advantage. Forget it.
• Malcolm is the kind of guy who will put his arm around you, and stab you. Then visit you at the hospital the next day.
• Sometimes Skupin is not that level headed.
• Handing the title of sole survivor on a platter to Malcolm would just be stupid.
• Everybody who signed up to play this game came to win. And I did, too.
• This isn't tree mail. This is tree meal.
• I left show business, got married, raised my kids, and that was a thing of my past.
• On the "facts of life" I had a role. I had a script. I played a character. I didn't have to worry about me. I didn't really realize how much of your heart and your soul and your spirit and your body are involved in this game, that your head is just a little bitty part of it.
• This is just a rare privilege, and I'm very aware and humbled that I get to experience something so incredible.
• I know it wasn't a pretty game. But I learned, I grew, and I'm proud of the final game that I played at the end.