Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natasha Trethewey

I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.

Shirley MacLaine

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

Stephen Baldwin

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

I've been to the White House a number of times.

Ken Kesey

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

Tammy Faye Bakker

I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.

Bindi Irwin

I've been working a lot with Dick Smith on overpopulation.

Jason Ritter

I've certainly auditioned for big budget studio films. I don't know if it's because there's so much money involved, but a lot of times the pressure overwhelms me and engulfs me. I end up falling apart in the audition.

Kathy Mattea

I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that.

Candice Olson

I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.

Delta Goodrem

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

Sam Rockwell

I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.

Dennis Christopher

I've done three Broadway shows; once the curtain goes up, that's it. I mean, you prepare and you rehearse like crazy, but after opening night, the director's not there anymore, you know. He gives you notes during previews after each performance, but opening night, you're on your own.

Ezra Miller

I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can become an attack.

Chris Tucker

I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get a whole bunch. Nothing's going to be perfect, and I realize that; but I am a perfectionist, so you go through a lot of stuff.

Lynda Barry

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?

Simon McBurney

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

Sarah McLachlan

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.

Daniel J. Boorstin

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

Angelina Jolie

I've learned that we all change constantly. It's rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

Tony Curtis

I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.

Steve Guttenberg

I've made a lot of people a lot of money, and I've made a lot of people really happy. I've entertained millions and millions of people.

Sam Mendes

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

Oliver Stone

I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.

Sam Kinison

I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.

Raekwon

I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

Simon Cowell

I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of 'American Idol,' we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don't believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make 'American Idol 'a better show.

Tom Petty

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.

Claudia Schiffer

I've never hidden the fact that I used to be shy, even when I was 30. However, I might have been self-conscious on the inside, but I was never inhibited about my body.

Andrea Arnold

I've not used a score in any of my films so far.

Ryan Giggs

I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.

Tom Scholz

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.

Stephan Jenkins

I've spent several years now with my head down

Paul Reiser

It's not like some movies where you're following a bunch of different stories you can cut around. There was nowhere to cut to. It's these guys. We're not cutting back to anybody else

Gary Hume

It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.

Heath Ledger

It's odd, that's why I don't like telling people I played field hockey. It's real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, 'Oh, you girl!'

Harvey Pekar

It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick.

Shania Twain

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.

Josh Turner

It's so cool for me to do what I love to do for a living and meet people from all over the world.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.

Dylan McDermott

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

Penelope Cruz

I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.

Moby

I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people.

Nick Frost

I volunteered on a farming community in Israel for two years when I was a teenager. One of the jobs involved clearing out a massive warehouse full of chickens ready for the abattoir. The smell of 40,000 chickens in 45C is awful.

Karen Thompson Walker

I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.

Liza Minnelli

I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.

Delta Burke

I wanted it so badly that there was no choice. It's like something in your blood that you have to do.

Nina Bawden

I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

Tory Burch

I wanted to help women and their families.

Zoe Saldana

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.