Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurie Metcalf

One of the hardest things about directing is just to be patient and remind yourself that you've been in Week 1 of a rehearsal process yourself, and you know what it feels like.

Rick Rubin

We felt Johnny's presence during the whole process through to the end. It felt like he was directing the proceedings, and I know that the musicians all felt that as well... More than once, Fergie and I would look at each other and say 'Johnny would love this,' because it was so good and so different from anything we'd done before, we knew he would be excited by what was happening.

Walter Gossett

There I was, for several hours, directing traffic with a parrot on my shoulder. It was a blast!

Vikram Rohit Shetty

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

David Fincher

The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

Joe Cornish

I used to dream about presenting a comedy show and also about directing films.

Steve Buscemi

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.

Stanley Tucci

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

Mike White

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.

Niels From

The yen is hugely undervalued and I see it strengthening next year.

Paul Sutton

It's a hugely important case, in part because it relates to the world's best-selling book, but also because of the principle of law involved.

Rebecca Ferguson

I've been hugely inspired by the songwriting of Lauryn Hill and Tracy Chapman - on their albums, they really tell it like it is.

Jim Landale

This is obviously hugely welcomed by the tribunal.

Frank Hadden

The Welsh were hugely inspirational to us last season.

Steven Shapiro

For the self-directed investor, the Internet is hugely significant.

Nikki Rocco

which makes this picture for Universal and for Working Title a hugely profitable endeavor.

Christopher Bellew

I don't think the hurricane will be hugely serious. I think by tomorrow morning this will be over.

Arundhati Roy

In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're ecologically unsustainable. And they're hugely undemocratic.

Annika Sorenstam

We started making some birdies on the back nine and had an incredible finish. It's amazing, and it's so much fun.

Edwin Markham

The thing that is incredible is life itself.

Tab Ramos

As we look what has transpired in soccer the last 15-20 years, it's incredible to see what's happened,

Leigh Crawford

As usual, Elissa made some incredible saves. It was really key to our momentum.

Carlos Moya

This has been incredible -- the moment I've been waiting for (for) years,

Annalee Newitz

It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world.

Bill Gates

They're doing God's work in a pretty incredible way, ... They have provided the lion's share of the personnel.

Steve Alford

It's a tremendous win for our program. We're in the midst of a special journey. We're trying to win something. It's going to be an incredible battle, but this was a big hurdle.

Jim Zwerg

It was the most incredible period in my younger life.

Denis Leary

I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.

Charlie Munger

Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it.

Erika Christensen

Watching Jodie on this is incredible; it's the perfect role for her. It's so intense and so emotional. She just jumped right into it and is so professional.

Kent Beck

I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.

Callie Thorne

Even though the third season of Necessary Roughness was only ten episodes, they were an extremely intense bunch of episodes, especially toward the finale.

Aaron Warren

A lot of people reject being in a place where they're physically confronted. We try to maintain an intense confrontational edge.

M. Wolfe

American and United are vigorous competitors and intense rivals.

Tom Workman

They were intense and physical like they always were.

Chris White

It's nothing like on TV, ... On the way down there we knew we had no idea what it was going to be like. I've been shot at before in life, and it wasn't as intense as what I saw.

John Milton

Fled / Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.

Lauren Myracle

Sometimes I worry I'm writing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' for teenagers, but I'm not.

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings

Charles Spurgeon

Thankfulness makes much of little.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

Jim Johnstone

We want to thank everyone for all their help.

Edward Gibbon

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

Eartha Kitt

Thank God you've got a sense of humor, or you'd be in trouble.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.

Alan K. Simpson

Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.

Charlotte Bronte

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

Carol Moseley Braun

Im committed to universal health coverage and education.

Jan Peter Balkenende

Freedom is a universal value.

Stephen Sondheim

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.

Maz Jobrani

You know, funny can be universal.

Carl Rogers

what is most personal is most universal

Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is universal.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios.