Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Westfeldt

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

Pat Gillick

People seemed more interested in their martinis than me,

Edward Pullen

The more I read, the more interested I got.

Source Unknown

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

Guenter Hujara

The teams are interested when it comes time to win medals.

Wendy Cukier

The thing that I'm the most interested in ... are the demographics shifts and the differences between the sort of 15- to 24-year-olds who are going to be the workers of tomorrow and the boomers.

Douglas Alexander

I've never been interested in self-promotion and that side of politics; and if that means people judge that you're less prominent than others, that's a choice I've been willing to make.

Melissa McCarthy

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.

Sigmar Polke

I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

Richard Briers

I used to make minor alterations and often shorten lines that were rather literary to make them more naturalistic. But my contribution was very small.

Derrick Jensen

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

Damon Lindelof

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Dan Harmon

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

Ani Difranco

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

Angela Sarafyan

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Anthony Hopkins

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

Tony Abbott

Although our powers are great, they are not unlimited they are bounded by some lines of demarcation.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

Earl Woods

The reason I didn't come up was that I wanted to give him the space to perform and be himself. It's all part of the plan.

Jim Brown

We are trying to see who can perform under those conditions.

Don Ameche

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

Rashida Jones

I'm terrified of performing live.

Liz Phair

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

Jim Parrack

Maybe it sounds like I'm splitting hairs here but I don't wanna perform for a living, I wanna live for a living.

Steve Alford

For whatever reason that happens, you're more comfortable at home. It's a whole different mindset. Those teams that are able to go in those environments and perform well are the teams that ultimately win championships.

Aaron Nida

I was real pleased with his (Larson) performance.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Craig Moore

That part doesn't really worry me ? it's making sure I'm fit.

Craig Hedric

So, we can make sure everyone is protected. The defendant, society, and other patients.

Kevin Mammano

I wanted to be sure we were in.

Chris Harrell

Sometimes, when I go back home, they don't see us as much of a threat. I always take that as an insult. I come back, and I make sure to tell my teammates about that.

Allen Tucker

The weather this year sure has been a challenge.

Holly Roberts

The whistle blew, I sure thought so. We can't take it back now, though.

Les Wright

you're going to have to unwind from that, and that's something we weren't sure we really wanted to do.

William Davies

And though I'm sure I see those eyes, I'm not so sure a body's there!

Shannon Staub

Englewood wants sidewalks. So do a lot of other people. I am not sure what happened.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Meg Rosoff

The more you live, the better writer you are.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

John Irving

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.