I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
~By Gabriela Sabatini ~
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
~By Horatio Nelson ~
I'm a more mature actress now.
~By Eliza Dushku ~
Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work.
~By John Engler ~
You're looking at an actor whose price has just doubled.
~By Art Carney ~
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.
~By James Gunn ~
I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.
~By Elena Anaya ~
We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.
~By Kofi Annan ~
Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity.
~By Edwin Land ~
Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.
~By Todd Akin ~
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
~By Warren Buffett ~
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
~By Francis Bacon ~
I fit into the quirky, character class type of actor.
~By Debra Wilson ~
I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.
~By Julia Barr ~
I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.
~By Dave Barry ~
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
~By Ichiro Suzuki ~
The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.
~By Megan Fox ~
I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.
~By Tom Selleck ~
On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
~By Mel Gibson ~
I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.
~By Bruce Nauman ~
Everyone needs reminders that the fact of their being on this earth is important and that each life changes everything.
~By Marge Kennedy ~
For me, acting is doing.
~By Pierce Brosnan ~
And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.
~By Scott Speedman ~
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
~By Bill Gates ~
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.
~By John H. Reagan ~
The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
~By Charles Evans Hughes ~
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.
~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.
~By James Randi ~
Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
~By Sasha Cohen ~
Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.
~By Mary Tyler Moore ~
There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us.
~By Lisa Murkowski ~
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
~By Dean Inge ~
It turned out to be exactly that, but more challenging emotionally. I looked at it in a more physical way, having to act in a chair and move around. But it really was more emotionally challenging.
~By Gregory Hines ~
You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.
~By Estelle Parsons ~
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
~By Galileo Galilei ~
Directors, like actors, get typecast.
~By John Landis ~
One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.
~By Kristin Davis ~
There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.
~By Peter DeFazio ~
I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.
~By Audrey Tautou ~
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
~By Gary Lucas ~
I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.
~By John Otto ~
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
~By Warren E. Burger ~
If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.
~By Paul Bremer ~
I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set. And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse. I don't have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay.
~By Dana Delany ~
In terms of Cube I think he's very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you're just hired as an actor, you're not really secure in that part of your work and you're not really paying attention to where the camera.
~By Nia Long ~
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.
~By Keith Henson ~
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
~By Chuck Jones ~
Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
I like rain, actually.
~By Bill Rodgers ~
Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
~By Victoria Abril ~
In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care.
~By Michael Burgess ~
Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God.
~By Rider Strong ~
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
~By Ian Hart ~
As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.
~By Fred Ward ~
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
~By Phil McGraw ~
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
~By Anne Frank ~
The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny.
~By James Denton ~
It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.
~By Norm Coleman ~
It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.
~By David Blunkett ~
The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.
~By Charles D. Broad ~
I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.
~By Carter Burwell ~
I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.
~By Ryan Gosling ~
But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen.
~By Steve Case ~
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.
~By Famke Janssen ~
The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
~By George W. Bush ~
A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.
~By Tony Scott ~
I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
~By Macaulay Culkin ~
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
~By Claude Adrien Helvetius ~
I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.
~By Humphrey Bogart ~
Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.
~By David Kay ~
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
~By Steve Buscemi ~
And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.
~By John Abizaid ~
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
~By John Berryman ~
The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
~By Erich Fromm ~
When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.
~By Kim Cattrall ~
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.
~By Taye Diggs ~
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
~By Andre Maurois ~
I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.
~By Gijs de Vries ~
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
~By W. H. Auden ~
The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.
~By Pia Zadora ~
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