Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amisha Patel

To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I'd done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act.

Amisha Patel

Believe me, it's not easy being an actress and a producer, especially with no big daddy to support you.

Common

Technically, my first acting job was in one of my videos for a song called 'Retrospect For Life,' which Lauryn Hill directed and featured an actress by the name of N'bushe Wright, who played my girlfriend who was about to be pregnant. I remember being so nervous about it, but now I feel like I can conquer the world with it.

Bel Powley

When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.

Brooke Burke

I don't want to say, 'This is where Im going to be in five years and Im going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini.

Bikram Choudhury

When actress Shirley Maclaine arrived 30 minutes late for a class, I asked her to leave.

Randy Nelson

Theater owners are scrambling to get the Best Picture nominees or the big stars. If your film only gets a supporting actor or actress nomination, you can get squeezed out.

Maximilian Schell

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

I was 27, an unemployed actress living in a really crappy studio apartment. I had just moved to Los Angeles alone, away from my family. I had cervical and uterine cancer and I was told that I would never be able to carry a baby.

Todd Rundgren

I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing the artists and making them feel good. I can see now that in some cases, that's what you have to do because that's the only way you're going to get them to produce.

Idina Menzel

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.

Idina Menzel

My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.

Inara George

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.

Glen Hansard

My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

Warren Farrell

I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

William Quigley

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

Will Shetterly

Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.

Idina Menzel

I think that if you're doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder.

Zubin Mehta

Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.

Bee Wilson

Restaurant critics all struggle with the difficulty of writing about eating without resorting to the word 'delicious' and its synonyms.

Cilla Black

I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is what you get. People thought, 'I could do that.'

Christopher Hampton

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

Gore Vidal

I can't name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I'm told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don't print them in 'The New York Times.'

Otto Rehhagel

Today there will only be joy, no criticism. We have already won everything. Now for us every opponent is a good opponent. We have nothing more to lose. There is no pressure. We will enjoy the success and look forward to the quarterfinals.

Otto Rehhagel

Today there will only be joy, no criticism, ... We have already won everything. Now for us every opponent is a good opponent. We have nothing more to lose. There is no pressure. We will enjoy the success and look forward to the quarterfinals.

Stephen Hadley

We've listened to our critics and are already pursuing many of their proposals.

Andrew Carroll

It draws us into their story. There is that sense of mystery, of what was that person thinking and what happened to them.

Scott Patterson

Popstars really draws you in. It's fascinating. It's interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos weren't involved and they weren't trying to be world famous. It's the Real World, only better.

Anthony Shadid

Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War.

Rod Thorn

He's a good shooter, he's a force down low and draws a lot of fouls. We feel he's a player who can play in our rotation and help us.

David McLane

What draws them to it is the lifestyle and the fun. Once they come out once, they'll enjoy it and come out again.

Rick Adelman

He has a quality about him that draws other guys into it -- the way they play, the effort they put on. He's always pushing. He's pushing the younger guys, saying, 'That's not good enough.' When a guy says that and then goes out on the floor and does it, it has an impact.

Glen Murray

He doesn't really shoot a lot. He can score, there's no question about it, but he likes to pass. He likes to hold on to the puck because he's so big and strong. He's so great with the puck that I just have to find the holes because he draws a lot of attention. He could score 40 or 50, but he likes to pass a lot more.

Tim McAfee

He draws a salary and does not work.

Jonathan Cheechoo

He draws a lot of double-teams, and he sees the ice so well. Basically, all you have to do is find a soft spot in the ice. He does a great job fighting off guys, and I just pick up the garbage in front of the net.

Gin Wigmore

I'm very open with people, very warm, when I meet them. My fans in particular find that strange and refreshing.

Gene Ween

Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don't stand out too much, but they're still total freaks. I like that - they're smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us.

Viswanathan Anand

There is technology where you can watch the match live online and also on TV. If people understood the game, I'm sure we would have a lot of chess fans by now.

Ken Sawyer

The Penguins and our fans will always be very grateful to Craig.

Becky G

I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.

David Stern

I'm persuaded that sports is the one place where the rules are pretty well set out, where fans are equal. And if you got game or you're a good official, you make it here, whether you're white or you're black.

Bill Vaughan

I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.

Sue Wilson

The abusive person usually doesn't understand the game and are usually the loudest. Fans see officials abused on TV, and they think it's fine to do it on the high school level.

Ken Hitchcock

We have unbelievable fans and they're disappointed. We have to stick together.

Brad Zancanaro

We get pretty geared up for this. We say every year that we don't play in consolation games.

Gene Louis

We have some ideas about a new demo. But the tour is ready, and we're geared up.

Steve Chavis

We're pretty geared up for the conference. We try to produce the state-of-the-art men's ministry weekend.

Jeff Hamilton

We're marketing that as a personal prayer book, primarily geared toward women.

Mark Richt

We're going to make sure he's the primary target a lot. We have more pass plays than I've ever had in our offense that are geared toward the tight end.

Kerri Strug

My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.

Vonda Shepard

I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.

Damian Woetzel

My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.

Jim Sullivan

My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.

Carl Sagan

The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. . . . Science thrives on, indeed requires, the free exchange of ideas; its values are antithetical to secrecy. Science holds to no special vantage points or privileged positions. Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty.

Bette Davis

They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

Bill Vaughan

Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

William Shakespeare

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

Baz Luhrmann

I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

William Shakespeare

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

William Shakespeare

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

William Shakespeare

Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest

William Shakespeare

A very honest woman but something given to lie

Brigitte Bardot

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

John Roberts

This would be shocking even in a Third World country.

Maria Semple

My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.

Jim Goetz

It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise.

Ann Marsh

It?s shocking to the family, it?s shocking to the friends.

Michael Nicosia

This is shocking to me, I thought we'd be up.

Jon Favreau

If you're going to be an R already, you may as well be 'The Hangover,' and you may as well be as shocking as possible, because that's what delivers the most return.

Phil McNichol

It was shocking today. I just wish it was shocking in the other direction.

Timothy Sr

It is very shocking because it is a very close-knit neighborhood.

Carrie Fisher

All I can say is that when millions of plastic dolls of you are being sold each day and an equal number of teenage boys are masturbating over you each night, it's bound to do something screwy to your psyche.

Carrie Underwood

My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

Bernard Beckett

I write with teenagers in mind.

Sean Covey

That's important, apologizing, listening, you know, I think the teens I speak with, most of them don't feel understood. They feel like they're being lectured to all the time.

P. C. Cast

Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.

Beck

I had long hair when I was a teenager.

Kathy Gallant

I was used to teens who had everything they needed.

Rory Kinnear

I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.

Devon Sawa

I don't think I want to play a teenager anymore.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Magic Johnson

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

Tom Wilkinson

Most manufacturers are working toward a two- to three-year period.

George Borjas

What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Thomas Jefferson

The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Sen. Gallegos

I think I can, but to be truthful with you, I don't know until I come to that point. There's going to be times when it's going to be difficult.

Randy Mayes

I can get a feel for whether the person is truthful or not.

Camille Pissarro

Watercolour is not especially difficult, but I must warn you to steer clear of those pretty English watercolourists, so skilful and alas so weak, and so often too truthful.

Charlie Chaplin

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

Edward R. Murrow

To be credible we must be truthful.

Brenda Ueland

Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.

Roseanne Barr

Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.

Guru Nanak

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

Alexander Hamilton

Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and haulers of water.

David Mitchell

Music’s a wood you walk through.

Cheryl Strayed

The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.

Baroness Orczy

Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine

John Muir

Come to the woods, for here is rest.

Bernard of Clairvaux

What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.

Charles Churchill

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

Elijah Wood

Hello! I'm Elijah Wood, and i'm a looser!

Doug Anderson

We really don't want to get into the wood business.