Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Bautista

Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

J. M. Roberts

John is one of the top parks and recreation directors I've seen. He has a great feel for the needs of the community, and that's reflected in the facilities.

Stephen Chbosky

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.

Aaron Johnson

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

Bruno Tonioli

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

William Shatner

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

Rebecca Hall

You either are a good director or you're not.

Zhang Yimou

I'm very honored to become executive director of the ceremonies.

Coleen Rowley

I never really anticipated this kind of impact when I wrote this letter to Director Mueller two weeks ago.

Mr Howard

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Sumner Redstone

We are extremely fortunate to have John, a top-notch executive with more than 25 years of experience in the service-oriented retail business, as the new leader of Blockbuster Entertainment,

James Sullivan

I have been very frustrated with what seems to be the overuse of executive session.

Elizabeth Warren

Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out.

Wayne Peters

Our negotiating team has recommended to our executive that the offer be rejected. Our executive is prepared to recommend to our membership that it be rejected.

Jay Ritter

In terms of the executives involved, they've got every incentive to do a deal, whether it makes sense or not, because if they don't do one, they give the money back.

John Remington

If you really slash executive compensation and perks too much, there will be inclination for people to want to leave.

John Ridley

Not only does Hollywood make money - it seems to make better movies during recessions. I'm sure a lot of studio executives wish we could have one every year.

Lumkile Mondi

The laws effectively require that white executives replace themselves.

Buddy Allen

I think we'd save a lot of money by hiring our own engineer. In fact, I know we would.

Howard Rubin

I'm not talking about lowering hiring standards; I'm talking about rethinking those standards.

Willie Williams

I'm hoping that we will have a process pretty soon (for hiring a new chief). It shouldn't be more than two weeks for the process to be in place.

James McElroy

This is like hiring the Ku Klux Klan to represent you in a desegregation case,

Chip Conley

Someone could be amazing at what they do, but if you don't like them, why bother hiring them?

Casey Daigle

We've talked about hiring a personal trainer, and she wants to play about three weeks to a month after she has the baby.

Gary Johnson

We are in major hiring mode. We're interviewing people every day.

Mark Johnson

We'll get a better cross-section of the community, ... We want them involved in the hiring process. Hopefully, we can get a better idea of what the public is looking for.

Andrew Tyndall

Why would (CBS) spend all that money hiring her away if they weren't hiring her because she's a superstar.

Terry Chapin

I think that (packed byline) is an increasing trend when you get real large-scale issues like this. No one person knows how to put it all together.

Larry Beets

He's been effective, and his speed is increasing because he's getting used to the rotation.

Brian Hill

He needs to work on increasing his strength and stamina. He needs to do more (lifting weights) to become more of a presence in the low post.

George Shiffler

PC vendors have succeeded in increasing the unit share of higher-margin mobile PCs. But this has resulted in a significant sacrifice of desk-based revenue as vendors struggle to maintain the value proposition of desktops at the low end of the market.

Nic Robertson

I think our expulsion ... points to the increasing stress and pressure being put on the Iraqi leadership. And that is only going to increase.

Song Ho

Individuals are increasing their investments in the stock market, and that kind of trend will continue.

Dr. Hartner

After two or three cases, we will switch into response. We would have an increasing number of sick people, but only the sickest could come to the hospital.

Carlos Cracraft

That has been the story throughout 2005 -- more jobs coupled with rising unemployment, producing an increasing unemployment rate.

David Mann

It's been increasing significantly over the last year and a half.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Leslie Broecker

It's a quaint, quirky, off-beat musical. It's from the producer (David Stone) of 'Wicked.' It's a very smart musical.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Catherine Deneuve

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Mike Nichols

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.

Mindy Cohn

The producers probably won't like this, but I always describe her as Peppermint Patty on acid.

Dino De Laurentiis

If no producer, no movie.

Rick McCallum

Producers don't really publicize movies.

Mick Jagger

There's no great technical expertise in being a movie producer.

Wyclef Jean

I always have a producer to the side of me, and I never want to do a record by myself.

Joe Clark

I think it is too simple to suggest that it's simply Mr. Harper's fault.

Darius Kasparaitis

We have to be more gritty, more hitting. We probably have to play much simpler hockey.

Richard P. Feynman

Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.

Richard John Neuhaus

Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

Richard Hofstadter

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....

Richard Dawkins

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Richard Dawkins

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.

Rick Riordan

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.

William Shenstone

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

Lofa Tatupu

He is somebody you really have to worry about and you have to know where he is at all times.

Bob Parker

He's always had illnesses. You will never get him here because somebody is always sick.

Char Quinn

I think we had somebody to walk every dog.

Gary Gilmore

There is an appropriate time to release somebody or to give them a break.

Kelly Price

A lot of times you'll have somebody who could be the most talented person in the world, but because they are plus-sized, they're not even considered for a call back.

Don Robinson

I did talk to somebody one time who said he was Doug Wood.

Jim McMahon

I don't know who had it out for me, but somebody did.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.

Martha Karolyi

If you don't like it, too bad. Somebody else will, and they will work it and they will be the winner.

Rick Baker

I think you've been on television plenty, Ed,

Annabella Sciorra

I don't have a television, so I don't know what they do,

Will Estes

I don't really get a chance to watch much television.

Tucker Carlson

The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

Wolfgang Puck

Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.

Julian Bond

I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980

Ken Dodd

Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.

Kristen Johnston

I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

Kiefer Sutherland

I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.

Kathleen Hanna

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

Michael Keaton

Guys who go on and on about loving women usually don't.

Oprah Winfrey

What do you want women to know about intuition?

Jaime Pressly

I think it's sexy when women have shapely bodies.

Richard Whately

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Rebecca West

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Vera Wang

It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.