Famous Quotes & Sayings

Idris Elba

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Ian Mckellen

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.

Val Kilmer

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation.

Clark Gregg

When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting jobs. As I got more jobs, I was able to make my own films. That ethos of making my own work has provided me with a lot of opportunities.

Brady Corbet

After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I work with, then I can have the best sort of master class possible.

Bradley James

The post-'Merlin' era is an exciting time to look forward to. Variety is the spice of life. That's the fantastic thing about acting - all the different challenges it can provide you with. To limit yourself just to one would be foolish; therefore, I'm looking forward to different things that come my way.

Big Sean

My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master's from NYU. She wanted to be an actress, so when she graduated, she had a dream, and she started following it. She moved to New York and took acting classes with people like Denzel Washington.

Ian Mckellen

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

Isaac Brock

Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.

Garry Hynes

I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.

George Allen

Election Day 2010 saw the culmination of years of aggravation and resentment toward a federal government that became disconnected and disdainful of the values and priorities of Americans.

Donald Trump

I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.

Vivek Wadhwa

After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn't want to go back to the corporate world. So I became an academic.

Vivek Wadhwa

When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.

Billy Graham

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

Wynton Marsalis

I became a man in New York. New York made me the musician that I am and the person that I am, so it's impossible for me to say I regret having lived there.

Ivana Milicevic

Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it's a whole different thing. You can't even predict it. I've seen women who were nightmare party girls, who were just crazy, and then they have a baby, and this thing comes over them and changes them.

Wu Yonggang

The PBOC is very prudent about making any more changes to the interest rate. It is nearly impossible to reduce the rate when it already stands at such low a level.

Rick Warren

Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.

Nathan Ford

With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.

Gary Rogers

The (50th anniversary) celebration is a good way to understand the changes within the borough.

Elizabeth Selvin

The association of ED with cardiovascular risk factors may be a powerful motivator for men for whom diet and lifestyle changes are indicated.

Chipper Jones

That was him being less stubborn and making some changes he needed to make at the plate.

Andrei Lankov

The 2002 reforms were just a recognition of changes that had happened already. It's not reform in any meaningful sense, there was just a disintegration of the state.

Hani Durzy

We have always had a policy that if it's illegal to do off eBay, it's illegal to do on eBay, ... We have made some changes and additions to our existing stun gun policy. We want to continue to keep people from doing illegal things on eBay.

David Thewlis

I had such a nice time making it, and I can't wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids - even my driver.

Richard Dean Anderson

Usually the science-fiction fan has some indication they're a sci-fi fan and, therefore, a 'Stargate' fan. In other words, they could be wearing a rubber head or some kind of costume or just a T-shirt that gives them away.

Patricia Norris

As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

Andrea Phillips

We're not saying students can't dress up in women's clothing. But there's a difference between the one who dresses (like a woman) for a play, a costume party or Late Skate, and the one who might dress in a provocative way, in a sexual way, in a lewd way.

Colleen Atwood

One of the challenges with period costumes is, on a technical level, making the scale of different periods work on contemporary bodies. We're much bigger than what people were in older times.

Martin Freeman

I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I keep forgetting to think of 'Charles II' as a costume drama.

Siri Hustvedt

There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood.

Kelsey Chow

I love mixing prints. The costume designer for 'Pair of Kings' and I have actually incorporated the trend for my character 'Mikayla.'

Lee Warren

He (Holbrook) said he has one of the first Mark Twain costumes he wore on stage and was saving it until The Smithsonian called. We said we could find a place for it until they do.

Amy Adams

Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.'

Cecelia Ahern

Most of all she loved that when she hugged him her head would rest neatly just below his chin, where she could feel his breath lightly blowing her hair and tickling her head.

Carrie Underwood

I'm really lucky in the sense that my hair holds curl awesomely well. It looks the same at 10 P.M. as it does at 10 A.M. One of my favorite products is Oribe Dry Texturizing Spray. I can get a lot of volume with it. I'm from the South - I like big hair.

Carrie Underwood

I'm Southern. I like big hair and eyeliner

Bernadette Peters

When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.

Ashton Kutcher

I'm a guy's guy. I don't comb my hair unless I have to, and I don't use lotions or fancy shampoos.

Bebe Neuwirth

The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.

Becca Fitzpatrick

It’s brown.” So maybe I had the teeniest, tiniest, most infinitesimal amount of auburn in my hair. I was still a brunette. “It’s the lighting,” I said. “Yeah, maybe it’s the lightbulbs.” His smile brought up both sides of his mouth, and a dimple surfaced.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Love the hair. Love when it’s out of control. It’s like seeing a side of you that needs to come out more often.

Tia Mowry

People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.

Thierry Henry

I am always honest, and I am not the sort of player to say, 'Oh, I love Arsenal' and then sign for someone else. I think if I was unhappy, I would say that, but I'm not. I do love Arsenal.

Imelda May

I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.

Idina Menzel

I would love to work with Matt Damon.

Ian Mckellen

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

Irwin Thomas

People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'

Indiana Evans

When you do a remake, there's a lot of pressure because people always love the original.

Gale Gordon

My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

Gaines Adams

I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.

Esther Rolle

I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.

C. S. Lewis

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Dustan Mohr

That was, in my mind, the reason we won.

Karla Comfort

That was the only reason. You wake up every day and find a reason to go on. My reason is I have kids.

Paul DePodesta

We just couldn't get on the same page. That's really the only reason why.

Frank Floyd

I think it will work out. If for some reason it doesn't, we'll have to go back in and re-evaluate it. But it's better than what we have right now.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Jon Jovi

We can be the world's AFL team, for sure. There's no reason we couldn't be.

Todd Clark

The problem, ... is there is no reason to stay long in to the weekend.

Mark Brown

We have been working for 10 years to get new tools for infrastructure development.

Steve Sobolewski

We have all the right tools on this team. No one can touch us.

William Bolar

He has all the tools to be great. He'll take them far.

Dominique Wilkins

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.

Carlos Slim

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.

David Ricardo

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

David Brenner

Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.

Madeleine Albright

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.