Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dakota Fanning

I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I played my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

Alicia Silverstone

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

Michelle Trachtenberg

I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty.

Norma Shearer

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Maud Adams

In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

Nicholas Ray

As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.

Lee Remick

Many times as an actress I feel crazy, yet the truth is that I would feel far more crazy if I were not an actress.

Brett Ratner

She's the most chameleon-like actress I've ever met. She's a shy person, until she wants to become something else.

Richard Howard

She was not only an actress but worked in every area of theatre, designing costumes and set pieces.

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.

Ali LeRoi

We were just trying to cast a great kid that kind of embodied the idea of the character. A young kid who kind of felt put upon, who wasn't too cocky and who was a little unsure of himself.

John Lampe

Since the early 90s, we have been a decentralized company, focusing on 21 separate businesses, ... While this structure was innovative and successful for our company then, it is time to dismantle the castle walls and empty the moats.

Brian Harris

She passed our way and we are proud to have loved her. She cast a light that made our path the easier to tread.

Franz Kafka

When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away.

Mira Nair

But if I have an obsession at all, it is with hands. I love hands and I love lips. I never cast lipless actors.

Cathy Meils

I didn't think she could do it. I really thought it would be looked at as unfair that I cast her in it.

E. B. White

Its important to do things locally as well, ... impeach.

Paul Decker

We've been briefed by the local organizing people.

Azzedine Alaia

I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.

Rep. Arza

We don't want the state solving local problems, but we want to be partners in the local problem.

Mike O'Connell

We're going to wait and see how it plays out,

Bronco Mendenhall

I give TCU credit, they made the plays to win.

Bob Stoops

He's the best. You can say all you want about him. He makes the plays that matter, and you see it every week.

Bob Stoops

It's still the Roy-back position until someone plays like him.

Jeff Tedford

There were a lot of plays to be made and we didn't make them.

Brooke Queenan

We got the shots that we wanted, the plays that we wanted - they just didn't go into the net.

Michael Gambon

There are more important ways of earning a living, aren't there? Like being a neurosurgeon. But some plays are very important, aren't they?

Michel de Montaigne

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Dr. Wielgosz

It is as simple as putting a measuring tape around the waist. That will give an indication.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

C. S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Elizabeth Strout

All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Donald Davis

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

Don DeLillo

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

Donatella Versace

Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.