In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
~By Jonathan Lethem ~
Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity.
~By Conan O'Brien ~
And I'm hoping that fair-minded people will stand up and say that what's been done to me is wrong, and that-that people's personal lives have no impact on their ability to be a journalist, you know. Why should my past prevent me from having a future?
~By Jeff Gannon ~
A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs.
~By Kieran Culkin ~
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
~By Barack Obama ~
Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.
~By Meredith Monk ~
It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!
~By Mark Rydell ~
I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support.
~By Wendie Malick ~
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
~By Jean Genet ~
You are not an active creator of the film.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.
~By Gavin MacLeod ~
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
~By Princess Diana ~
If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.
~By William H. Macy ~
No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
~By James Earl Jones ~
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
~By Donald Trump ~
You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.
~By David Lee Roth ~
Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline.
~By Jeff Bingaman ~
Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.
~By Peter Mayhew ~
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
~By Pythagoras ~
So I think it was to Bryan's credit that he was able to let go of some of those things because you create these scenes and you think you become creative, even I, acting things, you become very creatively taken by it.
~By Brandon Routh ~
When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.
~By Pia Toscano ~
One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
~By Nancy Kerrigan ~
If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
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 ~
Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
~By Paul Tillich ~
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad.
~By Stephen Cohen ~
I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.
~By Alan Jackson ~
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
~By Nora Ephron ~
There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.
~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
~By Ernst Mach ~
The fact is that I loved being in England.
~By Martin C. Smith ~
The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.
~By Patrick Marber ~
We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting.
~By Roger Waters ~
Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.
~By Herbert Croly ~
I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.
~By Margot Kidder ~
I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
~By Sean Penn ~
I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought about it all the time. I never thought it would actually happen.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
With representation there to do the speaking, the guilty are suddenly given the freedom that comes with hiding behind the fact that they never said that - in fact, they never said anything!
~By Michael Musto ~
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
I used to think I actually was Batman.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government.
~By Scott Brown ~
Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.
~By Bill Klem ~
Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.
~By Christian Bale ~
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
~By Georg Simmel ~
I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.
~By Debbie Gibson ~
I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
~By Howard Hodgkin ~
Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult.
~By David Wenham ~
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.
~By Jason Statham ~
I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.
~By Anne Dudley ~
I love being able to wear dresses and clothes that make me feel feminine and beautiful, and I love the fact that I don't have to all the time; I can wear a tank and jeans.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.
~By Joel Osteen ~
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
~By George Orwell ~
Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.
~By John Cale ~
I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm relating what he's playing.
~By Benny Green ~
If you have never been amazed by the very fact that you exist, you are squandering the greatest fact of all.
~By Jim Fiebig ~
It's really kind of a challenge to keep coordinated with the two station crews that we'll be interacting with. And of course one of them launched quite some time before our mission.
~By Linda M. Godwin ~
Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are.
~By Art Spiegelman ~
Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
~By Nat Friedman ~
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years.
~By Tim Holden ~
If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.
~By Maxwell Anderson ~
I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.
~By Lynn Abbey ~
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
~By David Hume ~
Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.
~By Jim Evans ~
I don't know about doing a sequel. I think you can retroactively damage a product by adding to it.
~By Simon Pegg ~
You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.
~By Lucy Liu ~
It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
~By Randy Harrison ~
Action makes more fortune than caution.
~By Charlotte Whitton ~
I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
~By Sam Mendes ~
When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.
~By Dougray Scott ~
The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
~By Laurence Olivier ~
If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
~By Harold Evans ~
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 ~
I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions.
~By Jo Bonner ~
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me.
~By Paul Reiser ~
When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man.
~By James Sanborn ~
My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.
~By Vanessa Hudgens ~
I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.
~By John Sayles ~
However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.
~By Jim Hodges ~
Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.
~By Silvia Colloca ~
Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this.
~By Scott Patterson ~
Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
~By Abraham Cahan ~
When the war ends, it will be found that there was an equal amount of "thuggery" practiced on both sides, that terrible things were done to force the final victory.
~By Rufus Jones ~
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
~By Stewart Udall ~
I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.
~By Joe Lieberman ~
We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.
~By King Hussein I ~
Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.
~By Periander ~
If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.
~By Hans Blix ~
I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again.
~By Andrea Corr ~
The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.
~By Lukas Foss ~
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
~By Mattie Stepanek ~
Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.
~By James L. Buckley ~
Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
~By Matthew Fox ~
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
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