Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beck

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

Dave Chappelle

Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.

Bill Maher

Donald Rumsfeld also lost his gig last week. When asked what his future plans are, Rumsfeld said, 'What's a plan?'

Bill Bailey

Live comedy's a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You're only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.

Brian Molko

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

Amy Winehouse

Basically, I live to do gigs.

Nicholas Hoult

I'm not one of those people who sits around knowing all bands and going to gigs all the time.

Alex Turner

I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.

Baz Luhrmann

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

Darren Shan

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

Charles de Lint

I've always been interested in the outsider.

Al Pacino

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

Chloe Sevigny

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.

Chloe Sevigny

I've been an outsider all my life - I don't care.

Antony Sher

I love playing outsiders, I always do.

Bill O'Reilly

I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No.

Carroll Quigley

A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.

Alice Walker

Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.

James Joyce

No one wanted him; he was outcast from life's feast.

Oscar Wilde

Outcasts always mourn.

Patrick Fugit

I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.