Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
~By Jeremy Irons ~
I want to work on some more complicated baking... and it would be interactive!
~By Lisa Loeb ~
I actually did use to sell shoes.
~By Alex Winter ~
But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are.
~By John Cornyn ~
The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
~By Branford Marsalis ~
Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.
~By Cordell Hull ~
However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?
~By Elliot Richardson ~
I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.
~By Jhonen Vasquez ~
I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play.
~By Corbin Bernsen ~
I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district.
~By Jim Costa ~
For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors.
~By Lloyd Bridges ~
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
~By Frank Herbert ~
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
~By Jim Rohn ~
As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.
~By Tim Conway ~
There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.
~By Mary Steenburgen ~
We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.
~By Clarence Thomas ~
In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
~By Bruce Nauman ~
I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.
~By Lusia Strus ~
When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.
~By Bob Woodward ~
The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past and you have other people who will actually take from better directors and that makes them better directors.
~By Jerry Bruckheimer ~
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
~By David Douglass ~
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
~By Henry James ~
Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.
~By Anthony Anderson ~
We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.
~By Barack Obama ~
This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.
~By Charles Krauthammer ~
I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.
~By Tom Sizemore ~
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.
~By Thomas Jordan Jarvis ~
The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.
~By Gene Barry ~
I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.
~By Anne Rice ~
The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.
~By Dick Wolf ~
These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.
~By Lewis Tappan ~
I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.
~By David E. Price ~
It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.
~By Joan Van Ark ~
Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't.
~By Bernice Weissbourd ~
The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.
~By Taylor Lautner ~
But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.
~By Neil LaBute ~
I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
~By Dolly Parton ~
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
~By Henri Matisse ~
I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.
~By Judd Nelson ~
Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.
~By John Moody ~
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
~By Roger Babson ~
Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.
~By Peter Pace ~
Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
~By Damien Hirst ~
Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.
~By George Halas ~
Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's.
~By Joel Hodgson ~
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
~By Hugh Prather ~
Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.
~By Pete Maravich ~
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
~By Olivia Wilde ~
I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.
~By Marguerite Moreau ~
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
~By Nafisa Joseph ~
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
~By Walter Anderson ~
People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.
~By Jessica Hahn ~
I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.
~By Joan Blondell ~
How can a president not be an actor?
~By Ronald Reagan ~
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think.
~By Chantal Kreviazuk ~
After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.
~By Edward Hopper ~
I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.
~By Joe Lieberman ~
This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.
~By Javier Bardem ~
Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.
~By George G. Simpson ~
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
~By Caroline B. Cooney ~
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
~By Berthold Auerbach ~
The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills.
~By Robert McChesney ~
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
~By Samuel Butler ~
What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.
~By Charles S. Dutton ~
Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
~By Rachel Dratch ~
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
~By Ruben Blades ~
I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
~By Natasha Richardson ~
As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.
~By Edward Sapir ~
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
~By Will Rogers ~
I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~
Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.
~By Luigi Pirandello ~
But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.
~By Michael Douglas ~
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.
~By Beverley Mitchell ~
The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
~By Laurence Olivier ~
Once this key conflict is eased, it will have a huge impact on the world. It will take time to find a solution. It's similar to the situation between East and the West at the time of my flight.
~By Mathias Rust ~
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
~By Edward Tufte ~
We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.
~By Anthony Kiedis ~
As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.
~By Billy Eckstine ~
That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera.
~By Gunther Schuller ~
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
~By Caskie Stinnett ~
I've always had this deep and chronic sense of dissatisfaction.
~By Lusia Strus ~
I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.
~By Richard Ernst ~
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
~By Jeff Koons ~
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor.
~By Shia LaBeouf ~
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