Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wentworth Miller

Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the 'Human Stain.' I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise on board, and the director Robert Benton was an academy award winner for 'Kramer vs Kramer.'

Ernest Walton

I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences very sincerely for the great honour they have done me. It is an honour so great that even yet it is difficult for me to believe that it is true.

Brad Goreski

At the Academy Awards every year, there are best-dressed stars - and worst-dressed stars. But it's the worst-dressed that go down in history.

Brad Goreski

Overall, we've lost risk-takers on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. All too often, stars play it safe.

Christine Gregoire

We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.

Gil Cates

The Academy basically reflects the mood of the country. It really deals with what's happening politically and what's happening in personal relationships.

Patty Fox

The Academy Awards red carpet has really become the biggest fashion show on Earth. And it really has become a designer race. It wasn't always like that.

Rob Daviau

The Academy Awards is a TV show that gives awards to movies. Now there are magazines that talk about the TV show that gives awards to movies.

Alison Lewis

The Academy Awards have become much bigger than a night on TV. It has become something we can build a marketing program around.

Gail Cross

We were sitting in the basement and we heard this deafening crash.

Paul Hanly

We just cleaned out the basement and started doing shows here.

Sarah Carter

I always remind myself that the world is bigger than Hollywood, because I need to. Being Canadian and from Winnipeg, I have the spirit of a dreamer because of the cold, and being in the basement thinking of possibilities of where else I can be in the world, in a good way!

Michelle Miller

I don't have to throw stuff into the garbage that is perfectly good. I'm cleaning through my basement and closets and have been able to offer a lot.

Clinton Sparks

I don't even know what made me start wanting to do music. It just... happened. Because I sat in my basement all the time, and music was my best friend, and I just wanted to be a part of it.

Robert Coleman

From my basement I heard an explosion and I ran and I called for my family to come downstairs. And I saw fire bursting out of the basement, so I got them as quickly as I can and I came outside and the fire started upstairs.

Neil Peart

It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music.

Eddi Reader

I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

Jeff Wilhite

Yes, it's called 'hazardous waste.' But it's paint and other materials that everyone has under the sink, in the garage, in the basement and at the work station. We're trying to get the word out that that's what we're handling, that's what we're taking from small businesses in Northeast Ohio.... That's going to our nemesis and our biggest hurdle.

Russell Tovey

I think if I met Frank Auerbach or Jeff Koons, I'd be more wobbly than if I met Robert De Niro!

Megan Fox

I want to be as pretty as Robert Pattinson.

Daryl Sabara

I don't know why there hasn't been a 'Spy Kids' cartoon. You have to bring that up to Robert Rodriguez and see what he has to say. That would be an interesting thing to do with this series.

Harland Braun

We want the LAPD to investigate Robert Blake. The more they investigate, the more they'll find out he didn't do it.

Kenneth Branagh

I did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents.

Chin Han

I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.

Katherine Harris

You know, I think it's so important that Roberts is confirmed. And so we've insisted, we've promoted, we've cajoled, advocated for his confirmation.

Kerry Collins

Robert Gallery, ... makes us a better team, that's for sure.

David Edwards

I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.

Barry McGuire

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

King Tuff

I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.

Bill Maher

To paraphrase the great Will Rogers, El Rusho never met a pharmacist he did not like.

Bjorn Borg

Roger Federer is stylish.

Mindy McCready

I never wanted to marry Roger Clemens. I wanted him to do right by his family.

Glen Campbell

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

Neil Innes

I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.

Tony Young

It's going to turn Roger Toussaint into an icon.

Terry Southern

It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.

Christo

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

William Shakespeare

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

Bill Nighy

I'm not a royal family watcher.

Alastair Campbell

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

Alastair Campbell

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

Roger Clemens

Now, we sit back and watch Roy do his thing.

William Wordsworth

Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense.

Christa B. Allen

I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want to play a butt-kicking superhero, like Catwoman.

Phil Garner

What Roy did tonight, he set a tone right from the get-go,