Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yakov Smirnoff

I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.

Imelda May

I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?

Idina Menzel

I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.

Ian Frazier

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

Gaines Adams

It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.

Whoopi Goldberg

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

Constance Wu

I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Don Rickles

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Mark Twain

The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme

Christopher Young

Usually when I am approached to do a score for a horror movie, it's to attempt a repeat performance of what I did way back on 'Hellraiser' or 'Jennifer 8' - one of those really orchestral scores.

Pat Miller

It is extraordinary - the orchestra tells you so much about the stage and what's going on,

Miriam Makeba

I was so scared. Such a big orchestra

Kathleen Battle

I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to satisfy - any opera urgings that my public has, I'll put in an aria.

Artur Rodzinski

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.

Mark Thielen

I remember when we did the Tchaikovsky (concerto), he just flew. We weren't used to that. But when we do things like that, it makes the orchestra grow.

Liza Frulla

All orchestras have problems, and I can see it all over Canada. We just bailed out the Winnipeg orchestra, three years ago,

James Levine

It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

Leonard Slatkin

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

Vicki Coleman

We wanted to keep the tempo up, but it's hard.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Bud Perrone

This temporary setback can and must be overcome.

Tom Rossley

We're not evaluating Brett. We're just trying to get a little tempo going with the first group.

Jaime Gongora

I thought that we got just what we wanted. We were controlling the tempo of the game.

Jim Smith

He's been our tempo setter. You know what you're getting with him everyday.

Micah Marsh

You have to know when to use it (the press). It's become something we can go to when we need some tempo or intensity.

Gus Van Sant

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Bobby Collins

It was the tempo we wanted to play, but we didn't want 27 turnovers.