Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jenji Kohan

A TV touchstone for me is 'The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.' That series was whimsical and smart and had the mix of comedy and drama that I now trade in - but with a dash of magical realism. I wanted to be Molly Dodd, but more than that, I wanted to be Jay Tarses, who created the show.

Melissa McCarthy

At some point in the past, it was decided that women in comedy are never supposed to be shown in an unflattering light. But in comedy, you need all of your tools to be funny.

Ray William Johnson

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

Reese Witherspoon

Romantic comedy has really evolved since that time when there used to be a lot of social conventions and all sorts of reasons why people couldn't be together,

Christy Romano

It would be a half-hour comedy that would really showcase my personality so my fans could get to know me. And I'd love to keep working with ABC.

Will Rogers

The way to judge a good comedy is by how long it will last and have people talk about it. Now Congress had turned out some that have lived for years and people are still laughing about them.

Brett Ratner

I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.

Texas Battle

To all my soap fans out there, my horror fanatics, comedy lovers, I will tell you this: 'Death Valley' is an action-packed drama, comedic, horror TV series that has a non-stop adventure in each episode. It's like a huge pot of Texas gumbo. If you like all four of those genres, then you'll love this show.

Bobby Farrelly

I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.

Bob Harms

This grant is essential for keeping the doors open and providing the many services we offer to consumers. We are very grateful to the Bremer Foundation.

Brad Goreski

When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there’s nothing there. It’s just you holding yourself back.

Eric Brown

To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music.

Catherine Ponder

All financial doors are open; all financial channels are free, and endless bounty now comes to me.

Jane Austen

Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.

Dean Koontz

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

Brian Eno

If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.

Bob Dylan

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

Billie Jean King

When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.

Allison Anders

I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.

Melanie Griffith

I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.

Josie Bissett

I've sort of mellowed out. It used to be: I want to be a star, do big movies. Now, being married, it's like the reasons I wanted to do that seem the wrong reasons. I want to have kids.

Golshifteh Farahani

The subjects that I am working are movies that say something. They are shouting or criticising something. I would hate to play a princess waiting for the prince to come and give her a kiss.

Eugene Levy

tons of movies are shot in Toronto, but Toronto is never Toronto.

Steve Erickson

There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about.

Charlie Tahan

I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young.

Harmony Korine

I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.

Zoe Cassavetes

Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.

Sue Leibold

A new world opens up for parents because a new world has opened up for their teens.

Dan Shechtman

The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

Brenda Smith

The right tools can really open up Scripture to you.

Nasser Judeh

This is not an open door. We can't just let people in because they are at the border.

Dean Acosta

That's not the way we operate here at NASA. We promote openness and we speak with the facts.

Bob Fitzsimmons

Younger people especially, I urge them to open a Roth. I open them up regularly.

Daniel Barber

It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.

Richard Daynard

At this point, it's really open season on the industry,

Justin Brouse

We were third-and-long, so I was thinking first down. That?s really all I was going for. But I was wide open so I just took it all the way.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

David M. Kelley

I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

Samora Machel

Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

Stone Gossard

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

Sonia Choquette

We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.

Tia Carrere

When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.

Tim Cook

What makes Siri cool is she has a personality.

Bob Dylan

I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.

Diane Lane

I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.

Dolly Parton

I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all that you ever dreamed of, and I wish you joy and happiness. But above all of this, I wish you love.

Tom Hanks

I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.

Morton Hunt

Love ... is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.

Mason Cooley

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

Bill Gates

If they want we will give them a sleeping bag, but there is something romantic about sleeping under the desk. They want to do it.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I'm a hopeless romantic. I love love. My middle name is Love. Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. I want to have a family and children. I am a sucker for every romantic comedy that comes out.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

Johnathan Frakes

To get that script as my first movie was just amazing.

Daniel Craig

Good scripts are hard to find.

Clive Anderson

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

Douglas Booth

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

Amber Heard

For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only.

D. A. Carson

The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.

Sydney Pollack

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

St. Jerome

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

Viggo Mortensen

I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

Riley Wallace

The worst part about it is that payback game. And when you don't get a TV game, it doesn't feel worth it.

Dennis Farina

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Debra Messing

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

Curt Weldon

Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.

Amanda Hocking

My only experience with dances was what I had seen on TV, but it really wasn’t that far off. The theme appeared to be “Crepe Paper in the Gymnasium,” and they had mastered it perfectly.

Richard Madden

Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.

Steve Martin

I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.

Victor Garber

I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.

Sebastian Bach

I acted in millions of TV shows.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

Boz Scaggs

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

Carol Burnett

I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.

Demi Lovato

I'm also very passionate about charity because it helps people who don't have as loud of a voice as I do.

Daniel Handler

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!

Coco Chanel

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.

Brian Wilson

I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon.

Branford Marsalis

Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.

Charles Olson

The Canadian voice is still too rustic.

Jon Corzine

a little nervous, a little worried but confident.

Alicia Keys

It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.

David Fuhrer

We started out sluggish. But they are just cool. They had it under control. I think I worried more than they did.

Ben Broussard

But right now, all I'm worried about is right now. I just want to get to the postseason.