Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Pacino

Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.

Chris Colfer

I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.

Louise Jameson

I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place.

Laurie Metcalf

I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.

Bill Nighy

If you ask any actor "What single thing would make you really, really happy?" Among the top five things they'd say is not having to audition anymore.

Nia Long

It's my motor, it's the thing that keeps me going and so when I have these auditions for these big movies, I can depend on myself because I've been working consistently.

Bel Powley

A lot of the auditions in L.A. do feel like cattle calls, with hundreds of people. I started to lose sight of what I wanted, because you get so desperate for a job that you stop caring whether it's a good script. You're just pleased to be testing for something - but then if you get it, you're doing it for potentially six years, so it's a lottery.

Kris Damman

They told us about 1 million people audition for Wheel each year.

Felicity Huffman

It's the role of a lifetime. I would have begged, borrowed and stole just to have a shot at an audition for this movie.

Michael Specter

For decades, Barbara Walters has been described as a broadcast pioneer - and with good reason. In 1974, Walters became the first female host of the 'Today' show. In 1976, she became the first woman to serve as a network-news anchor. In 1984, she moderated the first presidential debate between Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan.

Ted Olson

Barbara would have insisted that I live my life and that I go on and do the best possible job I could as solicitor general of the United States.

Eric Roberts

Barbara talks about how the kids are having fun; we're all having fun, but deep down inside she and I are both going, 'Boy, there but for the grace of God could go any of us.'

Karen Meredith

Barbara is definitely the heart and soul of this school.

Don Leclair

Barbara has served Ford well in her role in Investor Relations. She always put the Company's interests first, and we wish her well in her future endeavors.

John Biggs

Barbara Fleischman's contributions in time and energy to this institution have been significant and selfless.

Marcia Gay Harden

Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is today.

Larry Hagman

Our Ewing family dining room scenes would take forever, and Patrick (Duffy) and I would invariably get into a food fight. Barbara would yell, 'Stop it! I can't stand it!' But she liked it, too.

Keith Wilbur

Santa Barbara is a very good team. They are currently ranked No. 10, and more than anything, we will expect them to be really physical. This will be a good opportunity for us to see if we learned and improved upon some things from playing Davis because it will probably be a similar type of game.

Charles Stross

I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch.

Chris Albrecht

How do you get the protagonists and antagonists together, in the same space, without somebody having to die? So, we ended up having to tell two distinct stories, which is never the ultimate way to create a great serialized drama. So then, of course, we had the tragedy with Andy [Whitfield], which made everything very difficult and pushed back.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.

Chinua Achebe

To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What is required, we are told, is plays and films. Books are out of date! The book is dead, long live television! One question which is not even raised let alone considered is: Who will write the drama and film scripts when the generation that can read and write has been used up?

Edward Hirsch

I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and I imagine walking around Paris with Cesar Vallejo, a great Peruvian poet who lived in Paris. And I kind of create the walk as a kind of drama of my apprenticeship.

Edith Wharton

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Eddie Marsan

I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

Eddie Izzard

Drama is a complete meal, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates. It's a slow burn thing. It's got an arc. Comedy is more like coke.

Binyavanga Wainaina

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

Martin Gleeson

Whether this confrontation was in any way related to youth gangs is something that is still under investigation.

Charles Koppelman

We grew up watching gangster movies. We wanted to make a film that people would quote to each other like 'Diner' and 'Godfather,'

Ben Nelson

All of us in the gang hope that the gang has no role; that would mean that the nomination is successful.

Alex Gonzalez

A lot of gangsters used to be walking up and down the street, up and down, up and down. You don't see that anymore. ... It's quiet.

Selig Harrison

They think China, the U.S. and South Korea are going to gang up on them.

Chris Collins

It's not very surprising that gang members would lie to police. What's surprising is that police would lie to gang members. What you end up with is this whole group of deceivers, operating in this shadowy underworld.

Tony Sirico

I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops.

Kareem Evans

A sense of friends is important, to be a part of something. Many of them that are in gangs aren't into anything else. Most of those who are in gangs don't play sports or are in any after-school activities.

Cliff Politte

We've all been telling a lot of jokes. I guess we'll all get half a (playoff) share and half a ring. We won't be in the team picture.

Denise Roberts

When he got well, I said, 'Well, I guess it's not too late,'

Brandy Norwood

It's her first grandchild, so she's really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.

Carlos Asilis

Whether retail money is going to rotate back into the market in a huge way is the key. My guess is it's not going to happen.

Dale Stewart

We guess they didn't know that we had that other side, and we wanted to show that.

Larry Brown

We're just young. And I guess this is the process you have to live with.

John Glenn

Yes! A one-word answer. I guess I should just stop there,

Christine Clifford

We're ready to move. In hindsight, I guess I should have checked, but that's what we pay a Realtor for.

Joseph Lapid

We let you guess whatever you wish. What we have promised, and we keep the promise: We will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons in the Middle East,

Charles Dickens

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party.

Audrina Patridge

I love Halloween and dressing up. I usually have at least three costumes.

Dee Snider

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things.

William Shakespeare

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

Alan Stern

It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons

Chanel Iman

I used to dress up as a model for Halloween, like every year.

Bill Maher

Halloween is a day when we all get to fool people into thinking we're someone else. Or as Mitt Romney calls it, campaigning.

Bill Belichick

It hasn't even been competitive. That's the first thing we're going to have to do is just find a way to stay competitive because these (first two games) have been over by halftime. We saw that last year too (on Halloween). It was 21-3 (Steelers) at the end of the first quarter.

Eddie McGuire

We still remain the highest live television talk show. (Andrew) Denton and Rove (McManus) and all the rest of it get the Logies and we get the ratings,

Matt Millen

We started off the season with high expectations,

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Madeleine Albright

I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.

William Mosher

Whether the levels (of condom use) are high enough is for others to judge. But I think it's at least encouraging.

Jonathan Davies

When I was in high school, I wasn't a jock, I was into art, drama, and music, and I wore eyeliner, so I wasn't accepted.

Marty Turco

When it comes down to it, the opportunity to win here is at its highest level. That's what I was looking for.

Richard Nugent

We're going to start doing this more regularly, ... I could be mistaken, but that's got to be one of the all-time highs. I'm pretty sure it's the highest we've ever had.

David Strathairn

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information.

Herb Trimpe

When I looked at the other artists when I first started at Marvel, I was surrounded by giants. It was very intimidating.

Marian Seldes

I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.

Daryl Hall

When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.

Troy Dolan

When I was a freshman, I didn't wrestle as well here as I thought I could. I looked up at the stands and saw lots of people.

Terry Trippler

United just looked in the rearview mirror, and they do not want to go back from where they came.

Dave Bautista

Yes, I am physical but never go looking for fights. I have been in my share of them but never looked for them.

Michael Ovitz

All of us are probably three people. We're probably the person that we think we are, and we're probably the person that you or somebody else perceives us to be, and... frankly, we're probably somewhere in the middle. And I think that it's important that there be a balance with respect to how individuals are - you know, are looked at.

Trevor Pryce

Absolutely, I think we've always looked at him that way,

Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Bill Murray

If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.

Carol Leifer

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Aaron Boone

Yeah, I think I knew. I saw the sign and the announcers.

Dennis Hopper

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

Benjamin Franklin

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

Belle Boyd

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln for in him I saw the destroyer.

Barbra Streisand

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

Charles Spurgeon

God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.

Chloe Grace Moretz

An actor always goes to the safe side.

Derek Bailey

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

Jack Thompson

The other side wants to make me the issue,

Madeleine Albright

There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.

Mark Twain

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Charlie Ergen

The world is changing.... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side let's take the side of the consumer,

Charles Dudley Warner

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Bill Laswell

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Johnnie Hayes

It was still standing and a tree was on it, but it was flooded. Everything we had in there was ruined, our TV and all our furniture.

Norma Aviles

Wake up. See what's happening. Today it's me, tomorrow it could be you standing here. It's a place you don't want to stand.

Gene Autry

things that give you standing in the community.

Bruce Lee

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Joe Brennan

We did a lot of standing around for two quarters.

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Cindy Gallop

I like to stand out and make a statement.

Tommy Tuberville

I get off the bus, and he's the first one I see, this 18-year-old standing there crying. It takes you back.

Charles Stanley

You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

Alan Watts

Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell?

Alan Rickman

Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there’s that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it’s like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it’s rather tedious to fill in the branches…

Alan Hovhaness

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

Alan Bennett

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

Chris Christie

I'm a conservative, pro-life governor in a state where it is really tough to be both. A state like New Jersey, with lots of Democrats, but still we cut taxes, we balanced budgets. We fought the teacher's union.

Chris Christie

What he's saying is that a Trump presidency will address those kind of things head on without caving into the special interests like the teachers union, which Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton has completely sold out to.

Chris Christie

I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it.

Chris Christie

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

Sam Bush

It's just wonderful that he's still here, that he's made it this far.

Alice B. Toklas

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

Ann Wilson

For Ed to do what he did, it?s a wonderful thing,

Steve Spencer

It's all about snow. We've been getting wonderful snow.

Katherine Paterson

It was a wonderful way to be awakened.

Rhonda Faehn

It was wonderful to see they were very calm, yet so aggressive.