Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rickman

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

Al Pacino

Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

Al Pacino

Either I act or I die.

Al Pacino

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

Al Pacino

It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

Antony Sher

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

Denzel Washington

We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.

Denzel Washington

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

Denzel Washington

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

Jim Calhoun

The person who believes less in Josh is Josh. It's a daily progress with him to get him to believe.

Martin Seligman

Sexual performance problems, such as impotence and frigidity, are 70 to 90 percent changeable. But a homosexual who wants to be a heterosexual - that's close to unchangeable. And a transsexual - say a man who believes he's really a woman in a man's body - is completely unchangeable; you'd have to change the body to conform to the psyche.

Dave Brat

We want everybody to get rich. The Republican Party is often called unloving, uncaring, not generous, or whatever - that's a bunch of baloney. We're the party that believes in free markets.

Kim Sears

Universities, colleges and business schools get that information on students. He believes military recruiters should too.

Marek Hlasko

At first, one believes in love. Then one crosses a border, a border of time. Then that belief, too, is lost.

Robert McDonald

At Emerson we never use the term 'lobby,' ... We use the term 'educate.' Our management believes that if we can educate elected officials to the global challenges that American businesses face today ... that hopefully they will make better public policy decisions.

Bill Novelli

AARP believes the millions of older Americans and their families will be helped by this legislation, ... far from perfect.

Samuel Butler

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.

Olli Jokinen

It's just so much a different feeling this year. We've become a good team as the season has gone along, and everybody believes we can still get to the playoffs. The guys really believe in each other.

Matt Reeves

When you think of the 'Exorcist,' you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real.

George Osborne

Working in the Major government, we all saw, pretty close at hand - perhaps closer than a junior minister - the problems that the party was facing, ... Those who learned the lessons, and those who didn't. I did. I still for the life of me can't work out why Blair and Brown didn't. The euro would be like an ERM that we couldn't even leave.

Jose Barroso

All of us from President Chirac to the president of China expressed sympathy to Tony Blair and Britain. There is a strong consensus on the need to defend our values.

Dan Connor

For me it was great that I had someone like Blair on set because he's obviously going through what I'm going to encounter.

Bertie Ahern

As all parties examine the proposals that Tony Blair and I issued them, no doubt they will have some points of clarification. Already Mr. Trimble has stated he has some.

Dominic Moore

Definitely we need to improve. (Without Betts) it means the other guys have to step up and do a lot of little things that Blair did quietly.

Dave Brown

The most obvious image and the way the theme is used is Blair as Bush's poodle,

Kenneth Clarke

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

Ian Campbell

Blair leads a country that is a key signatory of Kyoto, yet he has left no doubt that the Kyoto Protocol simply will not deliver the reductions in greenhouse gases that are needed to curb the threat of climate change,

Jack Straw

As Prime Minister, (Rabin) made difficult and courageous decisions in his search for peace and was undaunted by the many obstacles he faced,

Mike Sutton

The most courageous person in all of this is my wife, Karen. She has not had a day off or any time to herself since this happened.

Steven Spielberg

This is a courageous year for filmmakers. ... They are saying 'If I never make another film, this one says what I think and feel.

Saddam Hussein

It was the most wonderful thing I've seen in my life. He was the most wonderful and courageous father,

Werner Herzog

Of course this is me revisiting my own past, going into the wilderness, telling a story, perhaps not the one I set out to tell, ... I had no opinion about Treadwell . . . I gave him space, let him tell me his story. And it was pretty easy to see that he was haunted by demons -- illuminated, courageous and cowardly, exhilarated and in love with the idea of himself as a star.

Herbie Hancock

Sometimes it was good and sometimes it wasn't, but I had to stand up for all of it or else I couldn't play any of it. I learned how to be courageous from that experience.

Garrick Phillips

Pretty darn courageous effort. We made the plays late we needed to win the game. These are kids I want to be with every day This is a special group of kids and win or lose they are going to have a special place in my heart forever.

Jesse Jackson

These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, ... They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.

Lawrence Dallaglio

They are a courageous side and they never stopped trying.

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained a something that will stay by us, and which will serve us again. But, if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought but borrowed it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

Charles Spurgeon

There will be no doubt about His having chosen you when you have chosen Him.

Alan Bennett

At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling'.

Edmond Rostand

Sans doute Je peux apprendre à coqueriquer: je glougloute. Without doubt I can teach crowing: for I gobble.

David Hume

The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject.

Derek Fisher

The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.

June Daugherty

We started out the year and people doubted us.

Nell Newman

I know I could make a difference by supporting the right causes.

Steve Gillis

They say they're supporting the troops, but they're not.

Robert Maillet

You need supporting actors to help to tell the story. For me, I'm lucky to be a part of the films. Being an actor, I'll take any role, whether it's supporting or leading.

Debbie Smith

I think the winds are changing. We're all tired of supporting the scandals.

Robin Butler

I'm still undecided about who I'm supporting for governor, but I'm a person who supports the anti-Nussle campaign.

Teresa Johnson

He wants to win and we're just supporting him.

Waris Ahluwalia

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.

Robert Lowe

The E.U. has a long tradition of supporting the Palestinians.

Marcel Dionne

The only thing is we didn't have the supporting cast.

I. Stone

A lot of this has to do with the Tony Awards.

Jamie Foxx

I told Tony I would look after her.

Jez Butterworth

I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run.

Ethan Suplee

I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.

Ricky Rudd

I wish it could have been a little better, better than Tony ran, ... But it didn't work out that way.

Ian Mckellen

Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.

Jeff Gordon

I'll take part of the blame. I think Tony should take part of it as well.

Audra McDonald

I used to practice Tony speeches in my bathroom with my hairbrush.