Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Chaplin

When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you're judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you're from.

Becky G

My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More 'va va voom,' I guess you can say.

Ben Barnes

I've actually, very rarely have I worked in my own voice. I've played, I think, Russian, American, Northern from the North of England. All sorts of different accents I've worked in.

Rupert Friend

The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice.

Sean Covey

Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, 'Affirm your child.'

Rick Wakeman

I'm hugely fond of Scotland. My daughter, Jemma, was born in the Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh, and it always tickled me that she was so vexed she didn't have a Scottish accent even though she was brought up down south.

Liam Hemsworth

I work with accent coaches a lot and try to do my best to get the Australian out of there.

Jonathan LaPaglia

I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an American one during the performance. But the Australian accent seemed to put them off. Now it's the opposite; they love Australians. And with my thick Californian accent I now have a problem convincing them I'm Australian.

John Key

My mother had an incredibly strong accent - although I couldn't hear it - and she was the main person there, so I'll have learnt to speak English from her.

Red Cloud

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Nina Easton

I've made decisions along the way so I would be there for my kids, and it's kept me from going places I would have gone.

John Schwartz

The $24 million jumped off the page. At first, I thought it was a typo, ... Then I kept reading and said, 'No, they're not joking.'

Connie Lemos

We were his legacy, and we just want to thank all of the people who have kept his memory alive.

David Phillips

We were going to play it here if we kept these theaters.

Sarah Soesbee

We've kept our reputation by playing hard. We may have less superstars, but we're probably more team-oriented.

Kevin Coleman

We've kept all the artifacts, all the character.

Ilian Evtimov

We just couldn't stop them on defense. They just kept scoring at will.

Ian Snell

I thought I was getting squeezed a little bit. I wanted to lose control, but I just kept my composure. I'd just turn around and slap my thigh.

Chris Willingham

We can all take lessons from our cats. ... They are very, very perceptual.

Alan Trammel

Those are lessons that we need to learn. I made my statement. I talked to him. It's over.

Toba Beta

Getting older makes you no wiser, but number of lessons that learned.

Cael Sanderson

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

Al Jourgensen

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Chris Colfer

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

Charlie Munger

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Charlie Munger

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

Eartha Kitt

I used to teach dance lessons.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Yahya Jammeh

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

Chita Rivera

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

Patrice Motsepe

South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.

Jose Ibarra

I think it's great. We need something on the south side.

Ron Howard

We're not going to think about that at all because we've got Southern Utah to worry about.

Dominique McElligott

I did do an American pilot, but it wasn't shot in America, it was shot in South Africa. It was called 'The Philanthropist,' and it was for NBC.

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Fred Coan

We've got kids, I'm sure, who have never been out of South Carolina.

Wes Anderson

And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving.

Michael Brown

I was screaming, telling him, don't die, and that I'm sorry.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.

Jussie Smollett

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

Brad Arnsberg

He's already telling me how much more comfortable he feels.

Jim Crace

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

Reginald Delk

He just told us the truth. He was calm, just telling us what we were doing wrong and what we were doing right, how it is and how we need to play. Then we went out and did it.

Benedict Lucchesi

He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody,

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

Thomas Wolfe

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Peter Thiel

I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.

Josh Pais

I live mostly in New York, but I teach in both New York and L.A.

Cathy Elkies

For us, it was really about the story of the Plaza. It is such a New York institution.

Jim Sims

He wanted it to feel romantic, seductive-elegant like a place you'd see in New York magazine.

Gina Rodriguez

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

Michael Musto

My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special.

Erik Estrada

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.