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.

Jerry Hall

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

Ian Mckellen

I'm not experienced enough, or certain enough of my acting on the screen to say to a director, "You are wrong, I am right. I will only do it this way." I could never feel that, I wish I could be absolutely certain. But on the stage, it's different. I know where I am on the stage.

Glynn Turman

Acting is about truths and the more truths you're able to tell and share with your audience the more connection there will be.

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.

Lars Trier

I think some of the acting scenes with Bjork look beautiful. Yes, to me, they are beautiful, but I am quite fond of Bjork.

Richard Andrews

He has done what you kind of expect an acting director to do, which is basically to mind the store. But he brings a lot of the qualifications you need for this job, and in the six months he has been acting as director, he certainly learned the immediate and considerable challenges FEMA is facing.

Jeff Justice

If that's the only evidence you've got, it's a sad day in the justice system to prosecute people for murder on the basis of that.

Nick Vujicic

Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails.

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.

Mahmud Abbas

We are ready to negotiate with the Israelis if they want on the basis of international legitimacy.

Adam Ereli

We recognize that they have need for fuel, and we think that deals to supply that fuel should move forward on the basis of the joint initiative, on the basis of steps that India will take but has not yet taken.

Pamela Liebman

To make a decision on your home on a purely financial basis makes no sense. Will your kids have to change schools? Will your rental have enough room for all your things?

Richard Kolko

Under the law, no private person may possess classified documents that were illegally provided to them. There is no legal basis under which a third party could retain them as part of an estate. The documents remain the property of the U.S. government.

John Landgraf

We get more e-mails and mail on a daily basis about 'Nip/Tuck' than any of our other series.

Edward McKelvey

We had expected an upward revision in the second-quarter G.D.P. estimate on the basis of other recently released data, ... but trade kind of goes in the opposite direction.

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.

Michelle Duffourc

The mix is very different than what it was before, as it was at least 80 percent tourism and convention business. Now it is one-third tourism, one-third relief and recovery and one-third families coming back and forth.

Joe Morgan

you would see more Willie Mays coming out of the inner city.

Sharon Stoll

You wouldn't have me coming and working with you if you didn't have a major problem.

Bill Granville

You would have a real hard time getting through your day without coming in contact with something with lime.

Stephen Alexander

You've seen it coming the past couple weeks.

Charles Hill

You've really got to focus on what's coming up in the future.

Mark Buehrle

You see him coming in with an 0-2 (record) and a 5 (ERA) and you wonder, 'How? How's that possible?

Tony MacAulay

You score an empty-net goal and it?s 5-2, it should be done. But they get a third goal. That?s the part that worried me coming into (Sunday). We thought we just did enough. You have to work 60 minutes. We took some things for granted. We were three seconds away from getting a point, and it was a precious point.

Flannery O'Connor

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

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.

R. Robinson

I wasn't really looking to score more (in the second half), but I was looking to be more aggressive.

Pat Murphy

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

Sgt. Phillips

We're really wide open in terms of looking at some things.

Ed Johnson

We need to be looking at some of this. We know we can't make things go away immediately.

Jim Manning

There are many senior union members who will stay with grocery, but the younger ones (employees) are looking at different careers.

Francis Chan

Our culture is all about shallow relationships. But that doesn't mean we should stop looking each other in the eye and having deep conversations.

Kari Koch

We only needed a two, so I wasn't really looking for the 3. I just did the wrong thing.

Mary Freeman

We planned it for people who are looking for something special to do with their loved ones.

Adam Green

With AHP we'll be looking at everything, just like Pfizer.

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.

Anita Brookner

I am 46, and have been for some time past.

Clay Shirky

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

Clayton Christensen

How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?

Clayton Christensen

Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by.

Daniel Kahneman

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

Daniel Kahneman

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

Daniel Kahneman

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

Daniel Kahneman

I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.