Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Barbara Stanwyck

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

Carice van Houten

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Bruno Bettelheim

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

Bruce Willis

Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear in outer space, and that was pretty interesting

Sam Lewis

During the playoffs the teams really come at you and we're going to be the team to beat.

Steve McClain

Sometimes you have to get a little lucky, and we can't seem to get a little lucky right now.

Stephen Graham Jones

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

Reggie Miller

No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.

John Noble

I was a very lucky actor.

Mariah Carey

I'm really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky to be where I am.

Nick Wechsler

I feel lucky to be doing TV right now because I get another chance every day.

Monica Potter

Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was able to feel every contraction. You forget what it feels like. God's got a great way of making women forget what it's like because we would never go through it again.

Mark Martin

I guess I'd rather be lucky than good.

Mads Mikkelsen

I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.

David Nicholls

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Nicole Beharie

I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to adapt and adjust and know that like you can't ever rest on your laurels, you have to sort of wake up; you actually have to be present.

Bryan Cranston

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

Rebecca West

I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

Sam Waterston

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

Larry Hagman

I was born with success. Lucky for me, I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it.

Oprah Winfrey

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

Martin Bormann

I do my very utmost to live and act in such a manner that the Führer should remain satisfied with me... but whether I shall always be able to cope with the tasks entrusted to me in the future as well, is an open question.

Molly Ringwald

What I like about being alone is being able to do whatever you want and it's for yourself.