Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Levy

Auditioning is such an unnatural thing. You're in a tiny little room with, like, seven people cramped together, acting to a casting director; just, none of it makes any sense.

John Glover

Deep Space Nine was also fun. I was kind of hoping that they would have my character back some time. Here was a guy who felt so inadequate and he turned evil in order to get what he felt he deserved. It was such a fascinating part to play. The cast and crew were incredibly supportive and welcoming to me.

Jerry Jones

Admittedly, he was surrounded by a (great) cast. Well, now he's got a lesser cast and he went out and did the same things. I've noticed a real shift in opinion on him as we've moved through the year. And that shift is probably worth quite a lot of money.

Jethro Tull

Sand castle virtues are all swept away, in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

Edie Falco

I spent a long time doing independent films, and I?d like to think I?m not getting cast because of the show, but because I?m right for the role.

Paul Hunter

This was probably the largest cast I've ever had on one stage. But once the choreography was worked out, all I had to do was show up and shoot it. My job was relatively easy.

O. Henry

This was an initial draft of an idea. There's nothing cast in stone. We expected them to refer it to their solicitors and come back with comments to it. I don't look at it as a rejection. This is the start of a dialogue.

Steve Mariucci

You go through some ups and downs, ... He's developed some thick skin, which is necessary at that position. Joey's a fighter and he keeps working at it. He's going to improve when his supporting cast improves.

Marie Dressler

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

Jenji Kohan

A TV touchstone for me is 'The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.' That series was whimsical and smart and had the mix of comedy and drama that I now trade in - but with a dash of magical realism. I wanted to be Molly Dodd, but more than that, I wanted to be Jay Tarses, who created the show.

Melissa McCarthy

At some point in the past, it was decided that women in comedy are never supposed to be shown in an unflattering light. But in comedy, you need all of your tools to be funny.

Mark Waters

Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.

Ray William Johnson

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

Mitch Hedberg

Sometimes I wave to people I don't know. It's very dangerous to wave to someone you don't know, because what if they don't have a hand? They'll think you're cocky. 'Look what I got... This thing is useful. I'm gonna go pick somethin' up.'

Reese Witherspoon

Romantic comedy has really evolved since that time when there used to be a lot of social conventions and all sorts of reasons why people couldn't be together,

Christy Romano

It would be a half-hour comedy that would really showcase my personality so my fans could get to know me. And I'd love to keep working with ABC.

Will Rogers

The way to judge a good comedy is by how long it will last and have people talk about it. Now Congress had turned out some that have lived for years and people are still laughing about them.

Brett Ratner

I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.

Brandon Boyd

Put down your hollow tips and kiss your lovers lips and learn that fate is what you make of it

Ben Okri

The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.

Benito Mussolini

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

Benito Mussolini

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

Benjamin Disraeli

A person's fate is their own temper.

Brian Jacques

Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.

Jane Austen

I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

Jane Austen

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

Dean Koontz

Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.

Roland Martin

Your life is not defined by the one place where you work.

Jaime Sarbaugh

Your life is much more important than your things.

Arthur Smith

You're not putting your life on the line to save the people of the village, ... I am.

Martin Freeman

You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.

David Tennant

You're more emotional. I like the way you play that stuff. My life has naturally moved on. I'm taking everything in my stride.

Lois Lowry

You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people.

Miguel Cabrera

You're going to remember all your life this time.

Bow Wow

Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.

Archilochus

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joe Tiller

The secondary played better in many phases. We are in a situation that we are switching things up to see what the result is and tonight it was a better product.

Manson Hill

The whole team played well and battled hard.

Philip Rivers

This is not a setback. I haven't played a ton, that's true. But I've had the two years, and I know the abilities I do have.

Dick Corn

This is special for these kids. It was really a gutsy performance, they played when they had to play.

Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

Matt Creamer

We have a refuse-to-lose mentality. We played pretty well. We played intense. We didn't play smart, but I can't remember a better game.

O. J. Simpson

We have quality players and we played the team around them.

George Hagerman

The technology has not only as much promise, but even more promise than wind energy.

David Clohessy

So much for their promises to be more transparent.

Barbara Jordan

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

Brian Tracy

The value of a promise is the cost to you of keeping your word.

Jane Yolen

Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos.

Aristotle

A promise made must be a promise kept.

Kristy Curry

We will be better. I can promise you that.

E. B. White

We're going to win -- I promise you.

Ally Carter

I'll be back. And when i am,i promise i'll have answers.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

W. C. Fields

On the whole I would rather be in Philadelphia.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Joel Edgerton

To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Adam Linkenauger

No other place I'd rather do it than at Virginia Tech.

LeCharles Bentley

I would rather sit out a season than play for the Saints again.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Koyie Hill

I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.

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?

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!

Anthony Hopkins

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

Andre Breton

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

Renee Fleming

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Robert Lanza

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Mark Rosenker

This is a tragedy that should not have happened.

Andrew Solomon

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

D. H. Lawrence

Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

David Platt

God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.

Jean Anouilh

Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.

Jean Anouilh

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

Irvin D. Yalom

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

I. F. Stone

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

Tarshanda Ferguson

A win is a win, but it was an ugly one. I'm very disappointed on the way that we played. We did not play hard, and we were not focused.

Aaron Rowand

No win is an ugly win, because, at the end of the year, that's one more win you wouldn't have had. And they're all beautiful.

Aaron Rowand

No win is an ugly win. At the end of the year, they all look beautiful.

Stanislaw Lem

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

John Updike

Accent the ugly until it becomes gorgeous.

Lyle Lovett

She was ugly from the front, and I said ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly. Well, I could handle it behind her.

James A. Baldwin

We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.

Erma Bombeck

Bombeck's Rug Rule: an ugly carpet will last for ever.

Cassandra Clare

Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.