Famous Quotes & Sayings

Quentin Crisp

It is not a biopic; it is not a trawl through the facts of somebody's life. It is more an evening with a Shakespearean clown who speaks the truth and was whipped for his pains. Writing the play made me love and loathe my country more: love it that it could create, and has always created, one-offs like Quentin; loathe it for its rejection of him.

Paula Gonzalez

He was funny, he had this huge sense of humor. He was just a clown all the time. He was just incredible.

Mary Lou Williams

He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.

Jaime Camil

When you do a good comedy show, you have to understand that if you don't have drama or sad moments, then the comedy turns into a clowning kind of situation.

Gina Bellman

Some directors are really strong on action, manhandling you around the set; others are very focused on setting up the camera shots and practically ignore you. You have to get used to introverts, extroverts, directors who clown around for the crew, and the odd one who's monosyllabic.

Orla Brady

I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.

Margaret Rutherford

You never have a comedian who hasn't got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every great clown has been very near to tragedy.

Frank Miller

'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

Brad Goreski

I am preppy, geek-chic with a touch of Bozo the Clown with a touch of 'Showgirls.' Sometimes, I look at myself and think I should put on a red nose, white face and maybe entertain some kids.

B. J. Novak

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

Antoine Fuqua

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

Paul Clarke

The 48-hour stoppage is aimed at CIS staff and CIS directors but unfortunately there will be an effect on some customers,

Julianne Moore

I think people are always really surprised when they realise I'm not a very serious person and that I'm not tremendously serious about acting. I don't like to rehearse; I hate improv. Directors that don't like to talk, they're my favourite ones.

Patricia Clarkson

I think I am monumentally lucky but I do have the good fortune to have these great young directors offering me parts in their scripts.

Colin Trevorrow

'Jurassic Park' is like 'Star Wars.' Different directors can give a different taste to each movie.

Lesley Manville

I'd love it if doors open for me in America. There are directors I'd love to work with there. I'll always do theater, but I've got to pay the mortgage.

Grant Heslov

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

Stephen Chbosky

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.

Steve Matlock

Our reorganized sales management team is 100 percent focused on providing dealers with the support they need to be successful in their businesses.

Elliot Hovey

Our race on Saturday was the most focused and well-executed race this year. Every race we've been getting better and better.

Edouard Michelin

Our operating income is showing progress. Yet, it does not reflect the group's growth potential. That is why in 2006, we will strengthen our focused growth strategy and strengthen our cost-reduction efforts.

John Mesenbrink

Our kids were very focused and very tenacious today. Our guys had 12 pins for the day. I thought our seniors really did well. All three of those guys did great jobs for us.

Dick Armey

stay focused on the singular question: Is taxing marriage appropriate?

Rodney Taylor

Our pitcher wasn't focused -- we had too many walks, and hitting-wise, we weren't there. It's one of those games where you get away as quick as you can.

Paul Rozak

Our girls really played well, especially the four minutes in the fourth quarter. They (Assumption) have a really nice team, very similar to us because of their versatility inside and out. We needed our rebounding tonight and that was what we focused on for this game.

Kevin Boyd

Our game has to be focused on us. Most of what we're trying to do is to get better every game.

Ron Averill

I'm hoping they can stay focused and relax at the same time. The sad thing would be to go down there and have all kinds of success and not have any fun with it. I want this to be something the kids can remember and tell their grandkids about.

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.

Chad Henne

Just going through last week, not playing ever like that before ... (you) just pretty much got to ignore it and move on and be more prepared than you were last week.

Bob Brewer

I don't think you can completely ignore that.

John Edward

Ignore the polls. They're wrong all the time.

Miriam Toews

Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!

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!

Dave Davis

Matt's idea, as it is with all injuries, was to ignore it and it would go away.

Parry Aftab

Most spammers will ignore the state laws, as they have all others.

Joe Schwarzer

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

Becca Fitzpatrick

Right now, holding you, I feel like we have a shot at beating all odds and making it together.

Bill Bryson

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

Stephen Colbert

I'm very comfortable with uncomfortable situations, and I think that can seem odd to people, that I like the thrill of discomfort.

Christopher Traulsen

I think the odds are good. I would be surprised if he didn't (beat the S&P).

Colin White

He's done that to all of us in here during practice at the odd time. We know he has wheels.

Arthur Blank

I got a lot of winks around the room. What's really odd is, you walk around and you would have thought I got all 32 votes.

John Wilson

There are no secrets. We know what they like to do, they know what we like to do. We play them three times, and the odds are that we win at least one of those.

James Woods

I would give you seven to one odds that this is going to be a slash piece, but that's OK. I'm willing to take the heat.

Bertrand Russell

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.

Ken Auletta

Sure we play rough, they said, but look what others do to us.

Tim Finchem

Stature is something that we don't determine. Others determine.

Tom Donahoe

Some have durability issues. Others haven't produced for more than one season. They're kind of all clumped together and no one has really separated himself.

William Butler Yeats

Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.

Ed Abner

Others had contacted her, but these were the two others she seriously considered.

Genghis Khan

It is not sufficient that I suceed - all others must fail.

John Connors

Like many others in the industry, we are seeing slowing PC sales as the quarter progresses.

Dolores Smitley

I was the one who was always telling the others how to do things because I had more experience.

Lalit Modi

If others want to play they can. Why should we play in October?

Ariel Sharon

I have begun, with my colleagues, setting up a new party,

Gilbert Arenas

I'd been setting up my team all night, ... I'm going to win the game. That's what I do. . . . They didn't say it was going to be easy.

David Leslie

I don't think it's so much of a disadvantage setting up from scratch.

Kevin Henkes

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.

Mike Harris

She's our unquestioned leader. She does so much, whatever we need, whether it's points, rebounds, assists, setting up plays. She does it all.

Sam Aiona

There are various interpretations of the new law. It is setting us back.

Veruschka von Lehndorff

In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.

Ruby Dee

We've got the possibility of setting things right,

Stephen Friedman

To make it more meaningful, you really have to have the right class. What makes this work is the setting of the right person in the right class.

Ryan Gomes

(Pierce) has been making those big shots for us.

Bethenny Frankel

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Joey Mullen

I thought he was solid all night. He didn't have a lot of shots for two periods, but when they did, he was there.

John Ontjes

Friesen's a tough player. She made some unbelievable shots in the first half.

Justin Gray

I take tough shots all season. I do take a lot of them. You end up making some.

Frank Sciolla

It didn't matter. We were getting lay-ups. We were getting all the shots we wanted. They just weren't going in.

Kirk Hinrich

I thought all of my shots were going in. When they didn't, it starting getting frustrating.

Bernie Bickerstaff

He's had to do a lot of things because we haven't been making shots from the perimeter.

Russ Crist

We made the shots to win the game. They just had enough time to get one off.