Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Edmonds

So most of the acting that's done are usually Canadians and because it's shot in Toronto, there's this law that you have to use Canadians for extras.

Carter Jenkins

Sometimes it's just a piece of tape. The other day it was a box of cereal. When we're shooting, he's not there; it's all visual effects. Acting is reacting, and when you don't have anything to act to, it's tough.

Michael Gardner

The whole fourth quarter they were acting as if they were behind. I tried to use my timeouts judiciously to calm them down.

J. L. Austin

Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

Tony Shalhoub

I like to do things that are different from the last thing that I tried. That's the whole purpose of it. That was the reason I got into acting in the first place, to try diverse roles,

Jeff Church

In 1992, the Coterie formed a partnership with the graduate acting program at UMKC to have the third year graduating class make their Coterie debut each January-February. Because the program emphasizes the acting of classical material, the Coterie is able to produce plays that utilize the students' skills.

Jon Nadler

In a world where news stories continue to make ominous ripples, gold is acting like the thermometer of collective global anxiety.

Morgan Freeman

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

Jon Bon Jovi

I would love to be able to do both (acting and making music). If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies, that would be a great life to have.

Barbara Castle

Now a company's power is becoming bigger and less accountable than it ever was before. It was bad enough when it was just a big, national industry.

Gary Apodaca

Sometimes younger girls are a little easier to teach, because the older girls have developed bad habits that are harder to break. But we've made a lot of progress.

Rodney Harrison

Sometimes, ... you just have bad days at the office, and you just have to chalk it up, continue to work hard and look at how each and every guy in this room can get better.

Marty Roos

Sometimes, you just don't have it. Nothing went right for us today and they played better. We made two bad mistakes in the first period and when they scored the third goal that made it a straight, uphill fight. We just have to forget it and get back to work.

Kevin Mawae

Sometimes you wake up in the morning and have a bad day. Sometimes you wake up and have a great day. Today I had a bad day.

John Travis

Sometimes you go on a bad call and wonder why you're doing it, but you're always looking forward to next time you might be able to help. I might hang in there for another 10 to 15 years.

Mike Grier

Sometimes you get the word out there and the game's called differently. I've seen it before where coaches have been in the media and games have been called differently the next night. It's not a bad idea on his part. It's all part of the gamesmanship that goes on in the stretch drive.

Reggie Jackson

Sometimes, you get into bad habits, ... He has what we call a nice behind-the-ball swing, a nice inside move. We're just trying to get him to work more on that. If we can get him to co-sign that, we'll be all right.

Keyon Dooling

Sometimes you don't think, you just react. I wish I could take it back. I feel bad for the fans that participated in it and for the kids that had to see it.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Beth McNamara

We gave it a good fight today. Our team hustled and did a few things well and a few things not so well that we will work on, ... We made a few mistakes defensively and they capitalized. They made some really good plays.

Jonathan Cheechoo

We weren't very disciplined; (we) took a few penalties maybe we shouldn't (have). It was pretty one-sided, the (penalty) calling, but at the same time we were putting ourselves in that position.

Bob O'Brien

Twelve, 13 years is a long time, but we've had a few (cases) even longer than that.

Victor Matfield

Now we just have to win a few on tour.

Thron Riggs

I would have been jelly in a few more minutes.

Jeff Brimhall

If we'd have hit a few free throws down the stretch, we win that ballgame.

Lindsay Davenport

She gave me a few errors, which always helps,

John Stamos

I have a trainer that I box with. Luckily, on ER, they'll tell me if I have a shirtless scene coming up and I'll have a few weeks to power it out.

Marcelo Enriquez

South is a very good team and I knew they were going to be much more competitive the second round.

Joe Linta

Special teams will be his meal ticket. He's got good speed and good hands. He's a real good 51, 52 or 53-type guy on the roster who can do a lot of things for you.

Kyle McLaren

Special teams was good tonight, especially the penalty kill.

Kelly Wood

One good shot from the opposition (centre guard) and that's all they needed to win. We had to hit at least three-quarters and it hung straight. That's curling.

Thomas Fuller

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands

John Sharp

One can say all they want about politicians, but politicians to other politicians, their word is almost always good.

Rob Hermann

Once you get to this point, you just want to see the local guys do well. Dustin is a good kid, and we love to help as much as possible.

Chris Chambers

Once you wrap that screen around, and you get really good sound you get immersed, ... You mentally make the leap that you're in this game. It's really amazing.

Stephen Malkmus

One day I'm going to write a straight-ahead story. I really want to, but I can't at the moment. I'm not very good at it right now.

Dino De Laurentiis

You have to kill the bad guy.

Curtis Joseph

I'm usually a patient guy anyway.

Corin Nemec

I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.

Anthony Hopkins

When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on.

Cillian Murphy

You know, I'm a skinny Irish guy.

Anthony Bourdain

One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.

Amanda Seyfried

I'm never going to be with a guy that can't deal with my friendship with him.

Andrew Vachss

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

Joe Thornton

Those guys are going to get signed. It's just a matter of time.

Toni Morrison

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Ricardo Montalban

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of all that was unbearable the unjust might go his way delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil.

Sarah Dessen

I looked down again at the sign in my hand - ENJOY THE RIDE! - and it seemed, suddenly, to be just that. A sign.

Voltaire

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

William Standish Knowles

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

William Styron

I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.

William Powell

There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.

William Powell

I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.

Colleen McCullough

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind

Colleen McCullough

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

Dick Gregory

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

Desmond Tutu

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Desmond Tutu

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Desmond Tutu

Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.

Desmond Tutu

Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.

Desmond Tutu

When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.

Dax Shepard

If Brad Pitt gets Kristen Bell, it’s like, ‘Well, of course he did.’ With me, it should be, ‘Oh good, a normal-looking guy got her. Maybe I’ll get me a Kristen Bell.’ But guys hate my guts for always dating women I have no right to be with.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Daniel Radcliffe

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

Daniel Craig

It’s not the job of an actor to judge your character

Dan Harmon

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

Douglas Coupland

MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.

Adam Savage

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

Adam Carolla

The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.

Adam Carolla

Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn't break it down piece by piece, stage by stage. The best gift you can give yourself is some drive--that thing inside of you that gets you out the door to the gym, job interviews, and dates. The believe-in-yourself adage is grossly overrated.

In some places it's known as a tornado. In others, a cyclone. And in still others, the Idiot's Merry-go-round. But around here they'll always be known as screw-boys.

Rhys Ifans

When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.

Victor Borge

A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Stevie Wonder

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Marie Windsor

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

Ted Turner

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing worth having comes easy.

Kin Hubbard

Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Penelope Lively

We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.