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.

Al Pacino

A lot of acting is private time.

Chow Yun-Fat

An actor is only merchandise.

David Duchovny

There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have actual acting scars.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.

Bob Thomas

We want them to swim fast, and this is the best way to do it, in short races.

Farley Flex

We want them to be as comfortable as possible. So they can give us their best performance.

Steve Davies

We want to take care of our district games and then, game seven, eight, nine, 10 make sure we're playing our best football.

Jeff Matteson

We want to surround our families with as much support as possible. There are some great people working with kids in this town. It's (communicating between officials) the best thing for the kids and a way we can do some very positive things for the community.

Nick Saban

We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put a player in the best situation possible so he can have success.

Venancio Figueroa

We want to stay competitive and make sure we're providing customers the best value.

Galit Chait

We want to skate our best. I hope to skate well and give our best performance here in this competition.

Jeff Horner

We want to show people we're the best team in the conference. We want to win the Big Ten Tournament and show that maybe we did deserve a little bit of the Big Ten title.

Scott Moore

We're in a David and Goliath type struggle, and we're David, ... And David won, as we all know.

Hermann Eilts

David Bruce, I think, is one of the outstanding persons for whom I've ever worked. He had a sense of balance. He was interested in everything that went on in the Embassy. He delegated authority, but at the same time when you needed the Ambassador's help on anything, you could go to him, and he would immediately respond.

Michael Korda

I never met Peter O'Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His incandescent performance in David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' is one that nobody who saw it will ever forget.

John Lone

When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.

Chris Widger

We've got David Carr and Michael Vick at quarterback. We've got Marvin Harrison and Roy Williams at receiver. ... Hey, A.J., who's our running backs?

Hersh Wolch

We'll be given an opportunity to show why David shouldn't be put through the trauma of reliving the horror.

Elton John

Throughout history, gay people such as myself and David have often been made scapegoats by those who fear that we are a threat to the status quo.

Edie Falco

Absolutely, in a show like this. David is really unpredictable. He's not a rule follower.

Rasual Butler

They had to rotate to David West because he is such a good shooter from 17 feet. But once they rotated, he saw me and swung it to me in rhythm and luckily for us, I was ... able to make the shot.

Barnett Newman

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

Matt Hasselbeck

We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense.

Stan Clark

We always felt we did the proper thing.

Shirley Manson

We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing.

Lisa Gansky

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

M. Night Shyamalan

'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

Ledawn Gibson

We started off kind of sluggish. I felt like we could've come out better to play, but after we made some adjustments we were able to get things going.

Petr Sykora

We have to finish the season on a good note. It doesn't matter what the outcome of the game is, but we have to feel good about ourselves. I don't think we felt like that tonight. We have a lot of guys who are injured so we need to get healthy and ready.

Michelle Williams

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.

Bob Ross

I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.

Dave Parker

When I wasn't selected for an interview for council, I kind of thought this might be coming,

Tom Cruise

This interview is a total fabrication. Tom did not say those things,

Lee Powell

This interview is an outcry interview, ... a low C for a grade.

John Vance

They are then assessed with a state examination, and then we interview and fingerprint them,

Brian Wansink

There were three stages to the research. We did in-depth interviews with about 80 people or so, sent out a questionnaire to about 400 people, and then did a large-scale phone survey of more than 1,000 people.

Chris Kattan

Yes, this is Mango himself. Listen I'm terribly busy and don't have time for a phone interview right now.

Tony Kaye

As a documentary filmmaker, I'm very respectful, and my interview style is not intrusive. I don't really have an agenda. I just go in there, I mumble something or other, I wait for them to speak, and I wait for them to stop.

Bernard Goldberg

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

Sue Gardner

People say to me that I'm a role model in technology, but it makes me laugh, because I'm not a technologist, I'm a journalist - that's my background.

Jeff Jarvis

This is really the first time since William Randolph Hearst that a young journalist can think like an entrepreneur.

Brigitte Boisselier

I amused myself playing with the journalists.

Annalena McAfee

I see myself as a recovering journalist.

Maria Sharapova

That's why we have journalists, for stats.

Mario Balotelli

I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.

Rik Mayall

It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say.

Jane Pauley

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

Chanel Iman

The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.

Bil Keane

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

Chelsea Handler

I'm into politics, and I love watching the heavier news magazine shows.

Carolayne Holley

It's just phenomenal for a regional magazine like this.

Paul Theroux

Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever.

John Dawson

Sometimes all you need is a picture in an international running magazine . . .

Janice Dickinson

I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world,

Bridget Hall

I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving.

Chris Johns

The reality is we're in a different marketplace, because general-interest magazines have come and gone.

Ewan McGregor

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Harold Jones

What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.

Tim Hogan

We've got fines accumulating at $1 million a day. The pressure is on to resolve this problem.

Jason Stanford

We're going to have to use the word million in the plural, but with that being said, we're not going to have to outspend Rick Perry to win this thing.

Katy Perry

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

Michael Schwartz

Three years into American involvement in Vietnam they were up to 500,000 troops in-country and there probably were already a million who had returned home.

Frank Moss

Three years ago we received 7 million applications. This year, we project 13 million applications. Next year, 15 million.

Mike Davis

About 12 million nationwide qualify for this and they are automatically enrolled,

Luke Zeller

It seems like a million years ago, I mean, it seems like so long ago.

Al Ries

The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

Akon

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

Mike Butters

We want to see who we're going to keep around next season.

Chris Cooper

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

Arthur Ransome

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

Denis Leary

No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.

Dee Dee Ramone

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Greg Stuart

We are making a dent, but we are not going to be at 10 percent of total spending by next year.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

John Hume

That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.

Emile M. Cioran

Pursued by our origins…we all are.

Brandon Boyd

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently.

Peter Coyote

The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.

Max McKeown

Strategy is not really a solo sport - even If you're the CEO.

Tommy Bolin

Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.

Sebastian Bach

I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.

LeBron James

Know that I'm better solo. I invented solo.

Michael A. Stackpole

Out of the firefight, into the carbon freeze." -Anakin Solo

Glen Hansard

And I've always loved playing solo.

Ian Brown

I've parked my solo thing in a lay-by and jumped in another vehicle and I'm in that now.