Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard DeVos

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

Samuel Johnson

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Warren Buffett

Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

Rosemary Clooney

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

Kevin Smith

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

I have always been able to rise above the expectations.

Jonathan Nolan

Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.

Rob Zombie

Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor.

Russell Johnson

Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available.

William Shatner

You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.

Sarah Bernhardt

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I also want the chance to work with some of the best actors in the business, because that's where you can learn so much by just being on a set and getting a feel for how they approach their role and how they work with you

Sanjeev Bhaskar

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

Sandra Oh

Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.

Werner Herzog

If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him,

Wallace Shawn

I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.

George Rogers

I'm just me. I'm not shy about anything I do,

Heidi Klum

I come from a place where we're not that shy about our bodies.

Alan Moore

I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

Kate Micucci

I'm really shy - I don't do karaoke.

Dorothy Allison

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

Don Rickles

I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.

Nick Carter

I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.

Patti LaBelle

I was very shy. I'm still shy.

Patti LaBelle

I'm very shy in a crowd.