Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Favreau

People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.

Jen Lancaster

Remember when Japan was cool? We used to run around with 'Mr. Roboto' on our Walkmans, 'The Karate Kid' in our Betamaxes and wore T-shirts embossed with the characters for 'storm sewer' and 'dishwasher.'

John Lasseter

Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development.

Kelli O'Hara

Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow.

Joshua Sasse

I want to try and portray characters that are in real life, that you see day-to-day. If I were to just stay in my little village in Wales, I would have gotten a very small taste of a very big plate.

Gina Rodriguez

I will play the characters with last names like Sanchez and Gonzalez until the day I die, but I also want to play the 'Michelle Smiths.'

Julian Fellowes

I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice, some are not, but it has nothing to do with class or oppressors versus the oppressed.

Joseph Bruchac

I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters.

Steven Levitan

I think every time there's a show like 'Modern Family' or 'Will & Grace' that portray gay and lesbian characters and is successful, it just further opens the door.

Ray Valdes

I'm impressed with what they've been doing. But I think the experience still is unsatisfactory. It's a little like the proverbial dancing dog it's impressive that it can dance, but if you want a real dancing partner, you have to look somewhere else.

Bill Bryson

Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.

Betsey Johnson

I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.

Rutina Wesley

I worked as a singing, dancing busgirl in high school.

Ray Bolger

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

Trevor Noah

I don't know how to let loose when I'm dancing to the music and the people that made the music are watching me. I've never felt so much pressure in my life.

Suzanne Weyn

Perfect happiness would be knowing that all my family and friends were happy and safe. Then I'd go to a tropical island with my husband where it was gorgeous and fun all day long and interesting and fun all evening. Good food and dancing would be nice, too, and weekly visits from those safe and happy family and friends. Plus world peace.

Michelle Lombardo

He saw I had talent and he wanted to keep me in the business, whether it was through dancing or designing,

Ajay Naidu

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

Chris Noth

Maybe in 20 years, when Disney rots and looks like sort of a pornographic version,

Gary Loftus

It is just part of the evolving market. We are just doing it a little less subtly than Disney does it, and it is happening all at once. It's just what happens. It's called evolution. Every 20 years or 30 years, it churns.

Jimmy Johnson

I found most of the Disney executives to be less than forthcoming,

M. Wolfe

I have a Disney movie stuck in it and I can't get the tape out. It's Bambi, so at least it's a classic.

Christopher Byrne

I think the Princess line has been the single strongest initiative Disney has done in years. (The campaign) is a really strong strategic move.

Henry Selick

I was at Disney for about four years, so I made good friends there. It was a time of not a lot of creativity. It was the end of the first great era, with a few of the original animators. They called them the Nine Old Men. I learned a lot from them, but it wasn't going to be a future home for me.

Don Bowes

He skated with Disney on Ice for years.

Anika Noni Rose

I always dreamed of being a voice in a Disney movie, and even in those dreams, I never once dreamed of being a princess. I just wanted to be a voice.

Jonathan Freeman

I grew up on Disney movies and, as a kid, I always liked the villains.

Bill Curry

That's the only halftime speech I remember, and it wasn't really a speech at all.

Steven Jackson

I won't wait till halftime to say it, ... I think a lot of people know how I feel about running the ball.

Tim Beck

I think I need to give my halftime speech before the game.

Matt Hasselbeck

I don't know. We could take a halftime and do the orange slices and all that kind of stuff. I'm not worried about it.

Jim McKay

Halftime Highlights. It was a milestone in TV sports coverage.

Lou Geary

Holding them to a 7-0 halftime lead was huge. But we just couldn't get anything going offensively.

Carolyn Peck

We made some adjustments at halftime and our team really picked up the intensity.

Lesli Priebe

I got on them a little harder during halftime tonight than on Thursday night. I told them that it was their championship to win.

Chad Morton

We talked at halftime about being the first team on opening day to score on a kickoff and punt return.

Steve Ross

I think they said they were looking to read the law more aggressively than it has ever been read before. It was a mistake for them to pursue this matter. They ignored the original intent of the statute.

Rivers Cuomo

I always loved the 'L.A. Weekly.' I totally looked up to it when Weezer was starting out, and I always wanted to be in it, and they always totally ignored us!

Joe Schwarzer

Mitchell was a tireless promoter of airspace, but he ignored military protocol,

Bonnie Raitt

People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

Agatha Christie

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Clive Sinclair

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

Patterson Hood

Most everything on it is real new. Lord knows I've got a backlog of songs, but when we went into the studio I pretty much ignored it. Everything else we've written since we started recording.

Peter Schuyler

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?

Alexa Von Tobel

Money shouldn't be worshiped and it shouldn't be ignored.

Jeb Bush

Please don't go outside until the storm has completely passed because the west side of the storm will be as strong and intense or maybe even worse.

Dan Phillips

I was kind of joking around with it. I was saying, 'We should be intense runners and shave our legs.' We thought it would be funny. I was the first one to take a swipe.

Chris Kennedy

It got pretty intense there. It started getting a little heated.

Renee Miller

(Future Cities) is a very intense project. It involves teachers, parents and the community.

Brandon Low

It actually motivated me more. It was an intense match already, but that made it even more intense.

M. Wolfe

I think it's going to have even more intense scrutiny than usual from markets.

James Hong

He's a very intense guy. He needs to be working on something all the time.

Douglas Coupland

For whatever reason, I tend to get reporters who are maybe in the middle of intense therapy, and they turn what's supposed to be a professional interview into therapy for themselves.

Yannick Noah

He has just lived through the most intense moments of his life. He is still away in his cosmos.