Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Edmonds

So most of the acting that's done are usually Canadians and because it's shot in Toronto, there's this law that you have to use Canadians for extras.

Carter Jenkins

Sometimes it's just a piece of tape. The other day it was a box of cereal. When we're shooting, he's not there; it's all visual effects. Acting is reacting, and when you don't have anything to act to, it's tough.

Michael Gardner

The whole fourth quarter they were acting as if they were behind. I tried to use my timeouts judiciously to calm them down.

J. L. Austin

Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

Jeff Church

In 1992, the Coterie formed a partnership with the graduate acting program at UMKC to have the third year graduating class make their Coterie debut each January-February. Because the program emphasizes the acting of classical material, the Coterie is able to produce plays that utilize the students' skills.

Jon Nadler

In a world where news stories continue to make ominous ripples, gold is acting like the thermometer of collective global anxiety.

Jon Bon Jovi

I would love to be able to do both (acting and making music). If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies, that would be a great life to have.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.

Eric Balfour

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.

Lee Tien

What's offensive to me is that you have the government selling Registered Traveler on the basis that we will get you through security lines faster, when they created the inconvenience on dubious grounds in the first place.

Ann Cooper

We call on you to ensure that the U.S. military cease the use of these detentions at once and that officials credibly explain the basis for the detentions of those currently being held, or release them immediately,

Stuart Cohen

We paid them on a time-and-materials basis to do the work, and I just know they're going to turn around and tell me that it's going to be time and materials to finish the work.

Jim Sutton

While some say neither move goes far enough, they have provided enough of a basis to unblock the discussion and move forward.

Ronnie Wood

We do things on an exchange basis in the music business - it keeps the wheels turning. That's how I can get people like Slash, Flea and Kris Kristofferson on my album. Collaboration should be done through trades rather than charging each other a fortune.

Vicente Fox

Fair trade governed by rules is the basis for the growth of our economy. Institutions and procedures must be strengthened, not weakened,

Wilhelm Stekel

Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are opened.

G-Eazy

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

Christie Brinkley

When you feel great, you emanate a certain energy that translates as beautiful. I don't care if you have the standard beauty or not; it's that X-factor that comes through, and the basis of that is good health.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Bryan Price

We hope to see some real signs of the rotation coming to life in the last month. Or, inevitably, you're going to have to make a decision.

Peter Costa

Emotionally, there was a sense this week of people wanting to get home and be with their families. In terms of trading there was not a lot going on and the volume was really low. I think you'll start to see some money coming back in when earnings get started ... and when there is some progress with the Middle East.

Robby Wine

Even today with the rain we had last night, the field's playing 10 times better. We're just jelling. Our team is coming together. The defense will be OK if we keep water on the field and the hops true.

Rich Williams

Everyone wants to do the first one. You do it right the first time, runners will keep on coming back.

Lynn Franco

As the economic ramifications of Sept. 11 continue to reverberate in the coming weeks and months, and the number of layoffs continues to rise, the economy faces tougher times ahead. While consumers have managed to keep the U.S. out of a recession for several years now, that soon may no longer be the case.

Fabrice Santoro

At one point, it's great that it's coming so late. I've been playing since I was 16, and when your first quarterfinal arrives at 33, it's a long time.

Marty Simmons

At that point, you could just see the life coming back into our bodies.

Andrew Olvera

At 8:25 a.m. when they got there, they saw heavy smoke and fire coming from the second floor.

Clint Eastwood

I can't do that to myself!

Susan B. Anthony

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

John Jay Hooker

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.

Stuart Murray

We felt it was important that we introduced what will ultimately be part of our election platform. We know that we're a ways from an election, but we just think that Manitobans need to know that there's an alternative out there in terms of making our communities safer.

Pat Murphy

They're always looking to throw it downfield. We've got to get them to punt and get some turnovers.

Bobby Hitt

The new Z4s are not in the market yet. It will be sometime this spring.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

David Arquette

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

Dan Brown

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

Aloe Blacc

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

Amanda Holden

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

Anne Carson

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

Thomas Jefferson

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

Robert Herjavec

The best way to get past doubt and inexperience is simply action.

Robert Higgs

To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited government. We can have a free society or a welfare state. We cannot have both.