Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Two Chainz

Entertainment is such a great job to have.

John Carr

I'd like for our controllers to feel much more secure doing their jobs, ... They should be watching their radar scopes, not watching their backs.

Richelle Mead

Nah. I’m a consultant, of course. Everyone’s favorite nondescript yet well-paid white-collar job.

Russell Crowe

On Sharon Stone (Quick and the Dead): 'She was instrumental about me getting my first American job. Absolutely, without her support, it would not have happened. At the same time, however, was it really about me or her wanting to flex her producerial muscles? I don't want to sound ungallant about the situation. But I didn't find that in working with her, that we clicked on any other level.

Russell Crowe

Every building you come out of, there is a parasite there exercising his constitutional right to make money out of being a parasite, trying to take your photo. Frankly, folks, I go to work, I do my job. I really concentrate, and if you go to the cinema, pay your money and have a good time. That's the end of it, as far as I'm concerned.

Russell Baker

A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

Ruben Hinojosa

The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.

Rose McGowan

With fame, all of a sudden you're seeing yourself through the eyes of a world of men, and that's . . . Look, it's very weird to have part and parcel of a job to feel like you're a lure for men to come into the theater. Some people do have a very innate sexuality to them. I may or may not have it, but it makes people see you in a certain light that has nothing to do with me.

Walter Lippmann

It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.

Kelly Clarkson

I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition.

James Lafferty

Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that.

Joel Kinnaman

It's great to get to work with your idols.

Luke Bryan

American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Gustave Flaubert

We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.

Gustave Flaubert

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

Brian Wilson

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

Leslie Caron

You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.

Karrine Steffans

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

Lindsay Lohan

I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.

Penelope Cruz

In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

Katharine Cornell

An actress' best friend is a body which responds instinctively to thought.

Katharine Hepburn

I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.

Elisabeth Shue

It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.

Joan Collins

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.

Kate Winslet

I'm always inspired by actresses who are older than me. Because I know that person has lived so much more life than I have. There's a whole other toolbox.