Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

We must scrunch or be scrunched.

Alan Rickman

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

Alain Robert

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

Al Sharpton

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

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.

Cindy Cohn

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Scott Meyers

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Lauren Worsham

I was one of those kids who liked a lot of attention. I was always the kid in class who'd be telling jokes and getting in trouble. Theater was a natural way for me to channel that and also become a productive member of society.

Tony Cox

We're looking forward to getting our eighth year of coverage on SPEED Channel underway. We had great season in 2005, but we're ready for 2006.

Michael Bowers

Years ago, Channel Seven said they couldn't put it on because it just wouldn't work and it was a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Lester Holt

Sometimes, I'll be flipping the channel at home and think, 'Wow, there's a lot of me on TV.'

James Marsh

For a film to be viable, it has to survive this process of scrutiny. I think most filmmakers have obsessive-compulsive tendencies and would be completely unemployable in any other job - so it's great to be able to channel your psychological anomalies into something productive and creative.

Chen Shui-bian

This is the right way to open normalized communication channels to normalize relations.

Sergei Dankvert

It means that we have discovered a stable channel of illegal imports, and ... we told the Polish vet about it.

Tommy Lee

I tried to channel you. ... Rescue Me.

Lexi Thompson

I go to the movies, and I watch MTV and the Disney Channel. I admit I like 'Hannah Montana.'

Nolan Gerard Funk

If you're one of the Disney kids, it's like you have to talk about having a promise ring, you know?

Robert Iger

With this merger we have a unique opportunity to offer Disney shareholders ownership in a new radio leader that will be well positioned for long-term success.

Jacob Young

Working for Disney for the last eight and a half years, people come and go - production staff and actors. I stepped onto the sound stage and it was a literal time warp.

David Joyce

This bidding is just highlighting the value of assets, ... I increased my target for Disney to $27 in January. If it falls, it'll fall only modestly.

Nell Minow

It's thrilling because Disney has made a lot of progress but still has a lot to prove to shareholders, and this is tremendously enhancing to their credibility with shareholders.

Keith Richard

They're shooting while I'm touring. I'd love to do it if there was no hassle, but it would be a side trip. I know what my gig is. The idea of working for Disney gives me the shivers in the first place.

Tony Kaye

I'd love to have done 'John Carter.' I'd love to work for the Disney Corporation.

Warren Spector

As far as the timing, well, I'd write that off to luck as much as anything - I happened to be out looking for a development deal, and Disney happened to think my team and I might be the right people to make a Mickey Mouse game.

Lisa Cholodenko

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

M. Night Shyamalan

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.

Leslie Cockburn

I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.

Nicolas Roeg

Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!

Nicolas Roeg

I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.

Navi Rawat

I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.

Nicholas Jarecki

I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.

Dieter Kosslick

We don't have any formal motto this year. We have many films that show a tough world the way it really is.

Louis Navellier

As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight.

Jim Ritterbusch

What we're seeing now is that some funds had moved to the side making sure there wasn't a bearish surprise and now they are rotating back into the long side,

William Sullivan

We are also in the grips of liquidations by hedge funds and a lot of dealers don't want to see big exposures,

Ron Pearson

Therefore, a portfolio with 10 or even 15 funds is not uncommon.

Bronwyn Belling

A lot of people went into retirement with pension funds and stock market investments that they thought would serve them toward the end. They've been in for some pretty rude awakenings.

Reuben Brewer

For individual investors, the moral of the story is diversification, ... The top three funds are income funds. That says something. These are staid companies, with some bonds.

M. Hopper

It's a huge challenge, right now we have probably in the tens of thousands of funds that have come in.

Gary Smith

I try to get into funds that are on tight, rising trends, gradually going up and up.

Russ Kinnel

It was a tough quarter, but a lot of funds are still up for the year. A little sobriety never hurts.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Eddie McGuire

We still remain the highest live television talk show. (Andrew) Denton and Rove (McManus) and all the rest of it get the Logies and we get the ratings,

Matt Millen

We started off the season with high expectations,

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Madeleine Albright

I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.

William Mosher

Whether the levels (of condom use) are high enough is for others to judge. But I think it's at least encouraging.

Jonathan Davies

When I was in high school, I wasn't a jock, I was into art, drama, and music, and I wore eyeliner, so I wasn't accepted.

Marty Turco

When it comes down to it, the opportunity to win here is at its highest level. That's what I was looking for.

Richard Nugent

We're going to start doing this more regularly, ... I could be mistaken, but that's got to be one of the all-time highs. I'm pretty sure it's the highest we've ever had.

M. Night Shyamalan

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.

Joaquin Phoenix

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

John Hughes

The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.

Amy Heckerling

I can't stomach most of the movies about women.

Neil Flynn

I wouldn't say I'm a fan of Tarantino, per se, but I like several of his movies very much, probably 'Reservoir Dogs' the most of them.

Annalee Newitz

Watching 'Interstellar' is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other.

Kent Beck

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.

Tony Scott

What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Al Stewart

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

Al Sharpton

I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.

Akio Morita

I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

Chris Cleave

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

Michael London

We've always, always, always wanted to shoot in Pittsburgh.

Rich Lyons

When we don't shoot well, and don't get back on defense, we have problems. We hurried some shots.

Calamity Jane

I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.

Steve Botkin

They got out on the perimeter and spread us out pretty well. We just didn't shoot very well offensively.

Kevin Stallings

They shoot it more than us, and they shoot it better.

Larry Brown

They shoot 55 percent, it's going to be a tough night.

Bob Martin

They didn't shoot at us, and we didn't shoot at them.

Allen Iverson

You don't want somebody shooting that had been making a lot of shots.

Kendall Simmons

You can't let them get rolling. Once they get that two or three yards, you need to shoot them with a bazooka to stop them.

Elaine Vogel

For a long time, we were the only theater in town. And it may be the only theater in Nyack again.

Brian Baumgartner

I come from straight theater.

Jane Krakowski

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

Didi Conn

I love working in the theater.

Elaine Vogel

This theater is actually always busy. There's so much going on here.

Robert Brustein

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

Tom Stoppard

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

Sophie McShera

I tend to go to the theater a lot. Ive always loved it.

Laura Marano

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. Its exhilarating!

Trey Parker

Colorado's right next to Utah - you know, Mormon Central.

Brigham Young

It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ... We seem more normal. We're not as exotic.

Craig Thompson

The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer.

Fawn M. Brodie

... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies. Moreover, a great many distinguished women in history, including several Catholic saints, were also sealed to Joseph Smith in Utah. I saw these astonishing lists in the Latter-day Saint Genealogical Archives in Salt Lake City in 1944.

Jack Kerouac

As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.

Bert McCracken

I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture

Martin Fleischmann

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.

Jimmy Fallon

President Obama just made his first presidential trip to the state of Utah. Obama spent his time in Utah just like you'd expect - telling people, 'Uh, no, I don't play for the Jazz.'

Jimmy Fallon

While he was in Utah, Obama discussed immigration reform with leaders of the Mormon Church. Obama introduced the first lady. Then the church's president introduced HIS first lady. And his second lady. And his third, fourth, and fifth ladies.

Markie Workman

They're a lot better than what we play on the Western Slope.

Eckhart Tolle

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

Frank Mauro

Western New York is probably characterized more by stagnancy than anything else.

Clint Eastwood

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Clint Eastwood

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

Rick Perry

We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.

George Steiner

Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence.

Ken Curtis

Of course, western is my native music,