Famous Quotes & Sayings

Idris Elba

I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.

Idina Menzel

After 'Rent,' I tried to make a record, and it didn't work out, and it was the Broadway community that welcomed me back. It's where I feel the most understood, most at home.

Idina Menzel

That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.

Idina Menzel

I've met so many of my idols, but the one person that has eluded me is Bono. But because he's done 'Spider-Man,' I keep thinking maybe, through a Broadway connection, somehow our paths will eventually merge.

Will Chase

It might be odd for people to hear this, but honestly, you know, when you're on stage, I don't think people realize how grueling eight shows a week is. And as far as jobs go, being a Broadway actor, it's hard. It's fun, but it's hard.

David Steinberg

I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.

David Binder

We all know that on Broadway you need to have stars to do a play.

Dennis Christopher

I've done three Broadway shows; once the curtain goes up, that's it. I mean, you prepare and you rehearse like crazy, but after opening night, the director's not there anymore, you know. He gives you notes during previews after each performance, but opening night, you're on your own.

Bette Davis

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

Timothy Noah

In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

Glenn Tipton

But this is what I want to do, and it is what I will continue doing until Judas Priest finishes, which, at the moment, I can't see that yet. It could be three years or five years, who knows?

Matt Groening

I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun.

Chuck Palahniuk

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.

Wyclef Jean

With Yele Haiti, the first thing was I'm proud of the organization and the work that the organization has done, and in the future hope to continue doing.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in January is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector, but at slower rates of increase.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in December is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector with a cautiously optimistic outlook as we enter 2006.

Kofi Annan

the overall epidemic continues to expand with much of the world at risk of falling short of the targets set forth in the declaration.

Randy Carlyle

The penalty parade took us out of the game. We can't continue to give a team the quality of Dallas that many power plays. They made us pay for it. ... We took too many. They got momentum from it.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Colin O'Donoghue

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

Frank Lampard

I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right.

Steve Jaksa

That would be nice. Obviously that would be tough to do but hopefully someone can step up like J.T. did this weekend.

Mark Zuckerberg

I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges... If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I'd care to know about you.

Ray Winstone

On every job you do, you've got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do - you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things - I don't think you necessarily learn them from other people because you have your own style of doing things, but hopefully you get better.

Greg Zipadelli

We'll race the way that got us here, and hopefully we can lead some laps, win some races and not make mistakes,

Allan Bristow

Well probably get it up to 18 players. We've got some young players (already on the roster), and hopefully they'll shine and show their potential that they belong.

Brian Barwick

We have the opportunity, if we want, to get the person in place hopefully before the finals.

David Gill

We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets.

Charles Dudley Warner

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

Chief Joseph

Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.

William Shakespeare

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.

Mary Foley

Worship here is very joyful. Our reputation is that of a very friendly, welcoming community.

Charles Churchill

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

Blaise Pascal

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Sydney Smith

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Baltasar Gracian

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Ariel Pink

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

Ian Mckellen

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

Jim Snyder

That was huge, it took away that 2-0 advantage.

Raymond Bonner

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.

Andrew Griffin

We had everything it took this year to get over the hump. We just didn't execute.

Steve Francis

I was trying to get to the basket, but I took what was there. It was a tough shot. I got enough arc, but it was a little strong.

Kurt Thomas

We clamped down on him. We took him out of his game.

Neil Callaway

Basically, we took him just because he's a big kid.

Donald O'Connor

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Jill Carroll

I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped.

Phil Fontaine

We can't be treated as secondary. We can't be an after-thought,

Marc Bulger

We treated this like a regular-season game. Whether they did or not, who knows?

John Macdonald

We treated this (bar) just like any other licensee.

Sofia Boutella

Working with Madonna, she always told me the meaning behind the steps and why I was doing these steps - she treated us like actors. So I feel like I've always been an actor, truly.

Gwendoline Christie

My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal.

Cass Sunstein

Rehnquist really was treated unfairly, ... A person is a career, not a moment.

John Timoney

He's being treated for a gunshot wound to the head,

Mary Scott

No one should have been treated like that.