Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Danza

I got this call that they wanted me to join this cast. They called it a family show, and it thought that it would be similar to all family shows. I wasn't sure about this until I watched some tapes, and was amazed.

Once I'm committed to a role, I will go very deep into it, even when I'm not at work. I'll keep on studying the script, maybe 40 or 50 times. I might call a scriptwriter at three in the morning to say I've thought of something new.

Tamsin Egerton

Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum's blonde, my sister's platinum blonde. I thought, 'When I grow up, that's what I'm going to look like.'

Stephen Colbert

I have a doctorate in fine arts from Knox College in Illinois. All I did was give a speech, and now everybody has to call me Dr. Colbert.

Solomon Asch

That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.

I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police.

There are still people - not as many now - calling and saying, 'Well I've been reporting this for two years. We weren't in existence two years ago. We didn't have all those officers. Those phone calls are slowing down.

Danny Aiello

People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it.

Danny Aiello

My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.

Larry Ellison

They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.

Kenneth Grahame

It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!

What you call dog with no legs? Don't matter what you call him, he ain't gonna come.

John Buchan

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Michael Winner

What? What!!!! Where is Rupert, I must call him.

Here, even if you have a little complaint, we call a hotline. They don't have that there.

Here's my favorite bonehead concept from the 1990s in the Pentagon: the theory of anti-access, area-denial asymmetrical strategies. Why do we call it that? Because it's got all those A's lined up I guess. This is gobbledygook for 'If the United States fights somebody, we're going to be huge. They're going to be small.'

He repeated the call for modest interest rate increases.

Oscar Wilde

Here is the first passionate love-letter I have ever written in my life. Strange, that my first passionate love-letter should have been addressed to a dead girl. Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?

Having said that, she is leaving all doors open. She has received many calls in support prior to the congresswoman making her decision.

Chuck D.

He's a big boy, so he's got a real good target. I let him call the game, I just throw what he calls. He takes a lot of pressure off my back.

Don Johnson

He's a character, ... So I take his parameters and don't infuse my issues or parameters one way or the other. He's a guy that is functioning drunk. He has what they call a traveling buzz. He might step out and have a short one at noon, but he never gets falling-down drunk.

He's 230-some pounds, he's solid, he's fast, he's strong. To me, he could go another eight years. ... It's a hard sport. It's tough on your body. It's draining being overseas for six months out of the year, and maybe it's time for him, if he really wants to call it quits.

He (Rodriguez) stabbed one of the men, and he reported to police he was the victim. The co-defendant (Masse) has 14 stitches. He (Rodriguez) was smart enough to call the police, my client wasn't.

Sylvia Hatchell

Her excitement and enthusiasm and passion for the game, it makes people smile. I can't tell you the number of letters and e-mails and phone calls we have gotten from people that have just said how she brightens their day. ... I feel like the way we play and having a player like Ivory sells the game of basketball.

Here we are, 10 years later, and we can call ourselves 'Saved Our Seahawks. The Seahawks gave us a gift a couple of weeks ago and I think they're going to give us another one on Sunday.

Matthew Arnold

Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill.

Pat Robertson

God is tolerant and loving, but we can't keep sticking our finger in his eye forever. If they have future problems in Dover, I recommend they call on Charles Darwin. Maybe he can help them.

He said, I got stabbed - call the police.

He said, 'I don't want you to call her no more, leave her alone.' ... He was really fired up. I started feeling like he was my boss.

Mark Cuban

He said he would call back the next day. He never did. So we dropped the idea.

Al Groh

He's got his pads on. You can call that what you want. He's done a little bit, but as I've said before, not to dodge the question, but until it really looks like he's going to play in a game, it's just a distraction from what we're trying to do.

He's got good skill, and I think he gives our team depth, and maybe he'll surprise us. In the new world, you're going to have to have some players that are good bargains. At the worst, he'll be a good player for us in Grand Rapids and if we get into injury situations, he'll probably be a good guy to call up with his NHL experience.

He's a very emotional young man. He's what you call high maintenance. He's getting it ... He's got to. I'd rather him be super talented and a challenge than not super talented and perfect.