Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abbey Clancy

I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.

Maisie Williams

I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was; it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.

Jamie Lee Curtis

If I were an actress today at the age of 18, I would never make it, because now our young actresses all seem to be very beautiful and very talented right away.

Kurt Russell

I guarantee you, (Dakota) is the best actress I will work with in my entire career.

Andie MacDowell

I mean, how many times does an actress get to play a school headmistress and then go out and have sex on top of a tombstone? Even when I see it now, I blush.

Jane Badler

I'm a chanteuse and a diva, and I'm an actress who likes a script.

Mili Avital

I loved putting on stories as plays when I was just six. I was the director, the actress and the set designer; I cast my girlfriends in parts, and I suggested to the local kindergarten teachers that we do free performances for the children.

Rachel Bilson

I never actually knew anyone in a coma, ... Well, on 'The Valley' (her favorite show-within-a-show teen soap) there's someone in a coma like every week, but I think they only do that so when the person wakes up, another actress can play the part.

Amy Landecker

The first red carpet I did was at New York's Paris Theatre... It was this beautiful night, and everyone is screaming my name. I'm the least pretentious actress you can ever meet. Someone said to me that I look like I've been doing this forever, and I said that's because I watch E!

Trent Reznor

Just spent the day discussing touring up through next summer, then played our asses off to the least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to. As I'm walking to the bus to leave Sacramento as soon as I can, I learn Jerome is back in the hospital. I have no idea what this means.

Glenn Stanton

John and I are both very disturbed by audience members who don't conduct themselves well, regardless of which side they are on. But that is very rare. Most people seem thankful for the way and seriousness with which we engage the issue and our obvious respect for each other.

Zhang Ziyi

He creates characters that draw in an audience no matter what language they speak. His insight into the human heart crosses all boundaries. I know he is also making a huge influence in the lives of younger filmmakers and actors.

Rory Bruer

Having a Jim Carrey film over the holidays is a pretty sure bet. Audiences trust he'll have the goods, and they want to laugh and have a good time this time of year.

George Pierce Baker

In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

Ingrid Jensen

There are so many pockets of places around the country where I play at tiny little towns, and the audiences in general there are so much more appreciative than big city audiences.

Cillian Murphy

He obviously knows through his movies how to exploit terror, and he seems to be able to investigate fears that we all have and exploit them or magnify them. There's a particular way of doing films like this. There's a particular way to manipulate the audience to get sort of a reaction out of them, and he can do that.

Wendy Liebmann

Here is this audience that is waiting to be plucked. They have a lot of money to spend, so they are a really big deal.

Frank Darabont

He's delighted with it, ... And indeed, I think that for him, this really came from the heart, this piece. So to have it represented well to the movie-going audience was quite a pleasure for him.

Rory Bruer

Having a Jim Carrey film over the holidays is a pretty sure bet. Audiences trust he'll have the goods, and they want to laugh and have a good time this time of year.

Ingrid Jensen

There are so many pockets of places around the country where I play at tiny little towns, and the audiences in general there are so much more appreciative than big city audiences.

Leslie Dixon

I was concerned initially. But when I saw it with an audience, I relaxed. Bottom line is, out of 600 test cards, only one mentioned it.

Carlo LoParo

We are exploring ways to prevent that information - specifically Social Security numbers - from being available to mass audiences through the Internet.

James Baker

Our autumn programming promises to be our strongest line-up to date. We're confident that Sky One continues to bring the best from the US with 'Weeds' set to mirror its emphatic US reception from audiences and critics alike, 'Threshold' exhibiting the potential for an 'X-Files' style cross-over success and returning series 'Nip/Tuck' and 'The 4400' continuing to captivate audiences.

Van Toffler

Our audiences want to connect with our content on every platform they interact with-linear television, broadband, online, radio, and now on PCs that run Windows XP Media Center. Today's announcement helps fulfill our multiplatform entertainment promise, ... The distinction between TV and broadband programming is becoming less important to our viewers, and the Media Center Edition platform is helping to take the entire entertainment experience to the next level.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Ringer is the perfect balance of what audiences want ot see me do. It's Cruel Intentions meets Buffy.

Tom Shales

In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the otherwise proper, did it with mischievous delight and convulsed audiences mercilessly.

Robert Rodriguez

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Peter Laviolette

I would think that we're going to take the best players available.

Pat Brisson

Jack thought long and hard about it. It was very flattering for him that Carolina was so interested but Jack just feels his development is best served by staying another year at school. It was a tough decision but Jack feels good about it.

Chris DiMarco

Jack's the best, the best of all time, and to make that putt for him is what it's all about, ... We wanted to get a win for him so much. Last night, we had a great, emotional dinner. Everybody got up and talked, and I think everybody said they wanted to go out and win this for Jack. And to do that is unbelievable.

John Bogle

Jack Brennan is the best person I could possibly have found,

Stacy Keibler

I would say my best feature has to be my legs - they are 41.5 inches long!

Ed Oakley

I would say it's in his best interest, at this stage of the game.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Ike Turner

Joe Louis is a great artist. He kind of helped me somewhat getting back to the blues.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Mitchel McLaughlin

John Hume has, I think, demonstrated great sensitivity and judgment throughout this peace process. And I think it's hard to imagine a more inappropriate moment to make that suggestion.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

Jim Harrison

We can keep people from experiencing remodeling horror stories.

Rob Zombie

What bother me, not "bother me," exactly; that's not the right way to put it. But especially in the horror genre, once a movie like Paranormal Activity comes out and becomes popular - and that's a totally fine and valid movie - everyone starts copying it. Everything becomes a found-footage movie that looks like somebody shot it with their phone.

William Friedkin

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

Tara Reid

I love horror movies. A good horror movie is always great.

Katharine Isabelle

Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.

George A. Romero

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

Meaghan Rath

I've always been into the horror genre, so I've seen a lot of movies with ghosts and supernatural stuff.

Brandon Gray

The most successful horror pictures play mostly to females.

Bong Joon-ho

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

Audrey Johnson

When he saw her, he meant to have her. That was what he always said. He just loved my mother.

Lizette Hernandez

I didn't want him to ride, but oh, my God, he loved them.

Rachel Remen

I did this because the person I loved wanted it.

Mark Hurd

The better you perform, the more money you make. I won't tell you everybody's loved it.

Jen Buckingham

It's been tuned, it's been played, it's been loved for many years, but it really needed some restoration.

Evelyn Fox

It's very sad, but he was?and his mom really wants everyone to know?a soldier, and he loved what he did.

Linda Sellers

They were opposites, but they were each other's favorites. They loved each other.

Rhoda Katz

They loved to travel the world. It's a wonderful thing, if you can do it.

Freddy Mella

They loved the idea and I have been registered with them since September.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Steven Forester

He'll be singing in his upper register to give the idea of what it means to be roasted on a spit.

Matt Ridley

I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.

Emyr Parry

If you can do one centrifuge, you can do 164. If you can do 164, you probably do many more. That means you have the potential to do full-scale enrichment. If you can do enrichment up to 7 percent, you can do 80 percent. If you can do 80 percent, you can produce a bomb.

Kurt Knaus

Their certifications are suspended. That means they can't occupy those positions in any mines in Pennsylvania, but they could occupy for other positions. For example, they can be miners.

Leon Hall

That just means we have to do everything that we need to do perfectly. Know where we need to be at, know our technique. If you mess up your technique with this guy, he can make you pay.

Thomas Brooks

That means a lot. But he can do more than run, he can also throw.

Stephen Roe

It's so touching. It means he played it.

Yeardley Smith

It's sort of frustrating. I've been at this for 12 years, and you'd think all the work means something. Well, not necessarily.

Greg Grunberg

My limitations are - I'm not Meryl Streep. I'm not playing anything in a foreign language, or anything too far from who I am.

Diaa Rashwan

Here in Egypt, his name doesn't represent anything for us.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Rick James

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

Virchand Gandhi

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

Woody Allen

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

Woody Allen

There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.

William Whewell

We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

William Wordsworth

Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.

William Shenstone

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Virginia Woolf

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

Voltaire

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

William Feather

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Philip Yancey

Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.

Karolina Kurkova

Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

Manuel Puig

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

John Mellencamp

I enjoy the pleasure of my own company.

John Heywood

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

Udonis Haslem

J-Will is always running. We just have to run with him. Sometimes we just can't keep up. ... If we can run with him, he's going to find you.

Donna Myers

What you are doing is running the seniors out of Worthington.

Denny Rinehart

Gonzalez will be a factor. Erica Hicks can run anything she wants to.

Lindsay Whalen

It could be worse, ... I'm already kind of running around and jumping. They kind of said to me, 'Just see how you feel.'

Derrick Williams

We talked all week about establishing the running game. We established out running game, and now we can see that we can run and pass.

Al Wolski

We're on our way back. We're going to try to run the table and see what happens.

Oliver Purnell

I think we will probably be in the NIT. It's disappointing we didn't make a run at winning (the ACC) tournament.

Jim Hendry

I think we've got more versatility. We're more athletic. I think we're going to run a lot better and play a lot better defense.

Andy Johnson

I think we tried to play at their pace, and we can't run with them. It got away from us in the second quarter.

Kathy Pulley

He's a whole lot better than we ever imagined. I am surprised that he wasn't just shattered.

Howard Opinsky

I was as surprised as everyone else was to see it.

Jerry Jones

I was very surprised that he was still there.

Jordan Leopold

I was actually kind of surprised but it's OK. We get all of the attention.

David Hayes

I'm surprised to see him doing so well

Andy Williams

I'm surprised at how we played. I thought we would play much better.

Marty Schottenheimer

I should have still been able to get it done. I wasn't surprised they took me out.

Jeremy Trill

Things are going very well. I am surprised how well it's going.

Frank Sacks

This is really groundbreaking. We were very surprised by this data.