Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Stephen King

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

Stephen King

But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

Stanley Tucci

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.

Starhawk

Spirituality promotes passivity when the domain of spirit is defined as outside the world. When this world is the terrain of spirit, we ourselves become actors in the story, and this world becomes the realm in which the sacred must be honored and freedom created.

Stan Lee

When you combine the great stories from the comics with the action and visual excitement of the movies, it doesn't get any better!

Taylor Swift

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

Tad Williams

So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

Dan Stevens

I always wanted to be an actor.

Daniel Craig

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

Alec Guinness

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

Harry Morgan

Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

Russell Johnson

Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available.

William Shatner

You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I also want the chance to work with some of the best actors in the business, because that's where you can learn so much by just being on a set and getting a feel for how they approach their role and how they work with you

Wallace Shawn

I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.

Zhang Ziyi

Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

Ayn Rand

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Robert Kiyosaki

As the owner of the company, I'm always focusing on how my company can do more for less. And it's one of the principles of the world.

Douglas Coupland

She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?

Douglas Coupland

As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.

Douglas Coupland

Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.

Donald Trump

I don't like to sit back and gloat, because the world is fragile. Life is fragile, so I never really gloat.

Donald Trump

Whole part of the world is a mess under [Barack] Obama, with all the strength that you're talking about and all of the power of NATO.