Famous Quotes & Sayings

Raj Babbar

It is a shame that an actress of her stature has to go through this.

Tamsin Egerton

Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

Randy Nelson

Theater owners are scrambling to get the Best Picture nominees or the big stars. If your film only gets a supporting actor or actress nomination, you can get squeezed out.

Mandy Moore

I think it's the fun and the challenge as an actress to get a meaty part like this and sort of play against type. Sally is pretty far from who I am, so I definitely enjoyed it.

Ravi Shankar

It is natural to have your favorite actor or actress or musician or composer. But India is the only place where we fight over it.

John Cusack

I was working with a great actress - a superior artist in every way - and she really liked Celine Dion. I tried very hard, but I couldn't understand it. I just can't listen to Celine Dion! So I guess music is a deal breaker.

Deborah Kerr

I suppose the part nearest me is Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy. Of course playright Bob Anderson didn't know that, but he wrote Laura Reynolds and Laura Reynolds happened to be me. It was the coming together of a part and an actress - the same attitude to life, a certain shyness in life, a deep compassion for people who are being persecuted for anything.

Maisie Williams

I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was; it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.

Joan Blondell

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.

Daddy Yankee

Reggaeton means the same thing to Latino youth as hip-hop does to African-American kids. We didn't have artists to look up to before. But the young kids now, they're looking at Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderon and Ivy Queen like kids in the American 'hood look up to 50 Cent or 2Pac. I'm representing for my culture and my people. It's their music.

John Cusack

Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.

Keith Davis

Parks was a man of perhaps unparalleled artistic talent.

Susan Baker

Paul Kellogg has been a beloved and visionary leader of City Opera and we will miss him deeply. During the past ten years we have been fortunate to have had the benefit not only of his extraordinary artistic sensibility, his wise counsel and his inspirational leadership, but also of his impeccable human values, warmth and charm. That said, we cannot help but understand that he wishes to have more personal time after many years of service to the arts and we salute and thank him for his formidable accomplishments and significant contributions both to City Opera and to opera in general. Paul Kellogg's vision for City Opera has charted our course for the coming years. We are grateful beyond measure and will miss him profoundly.

Susan Barnes

Our lives are so hectic today. I don't care what we are, artists or whatever, people need to come and enjoy it.

Pam Walker

Our legal folks say we don't have copyright clearance. Graphics artists are working on it as we speak.

Karen Hughes

Our music and film industries, our artists and entertainers create very powerful impressions, sometimes good, sometimes bad, but they're always, always powerful.

Stephanie Szostak

People in fashion treat it as a business... I guess Hollywood is a business, too, but you talk about story: you talk about a more artistic world than in fashion.

James Hunter

People often think that every artist in that realm had the same qualities. If I want emotional intensity, I'll listen to Little Willie John, but if I want some pyrotechnics, I'll go to Jackie Wilson. It's not all the same emotional level, that stuff, which people make the mistake of thinking it is.

Sen. Gallegos

Regardless of who you are, if you have this addiction, you've got to deal with it, or something's going to happen to you.

Michael Griffith

Recently, school districts have been getting more and more successful in winning these cases, and getting a great deal more money.

Frank Rijkaard

Real started with a great deal of spirit,

Walter Bugno

Our position is still that we're delighted with Dwight's contribution, delighted that he's on a two-year deal and want to see him back here next season. But internally and publicly we have been trying very hard to help Dwight find suitable arrangements until the World Cup.

Mamie Gummer

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

David Schultz

Our record isn't too big of a deal right now. We know what we have to do, and as a team we know we can do it.

David Montgomery

Pat has accomplished a great deal in three situations.

Jason Smith

Paul (Horvath) has a strong opinion about taxes. Every year he pays his taxes right before the (county tax) sale. This is nothing new with us. This is how Paul deals with taxes. He paid his taxes at this time last year.

Drew Neitzel

Paul gets them all the time. I guess it's not that big a deal for him. But it's big for me.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

Lynne Sipiora

Our population has been lowered because we have seen such a mild winter. We thought we were just going to slide into summer, but I guess the weather says otherwise.

Marc Levitan

Our thought was we could be proactive and not have to wait until after we got smacked. I guess that's not going to happen.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Reporter, n.: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

Kendall Gielow

I was just getting open shots. I took them when they were there and hoped they went in. And I guess they did.

Dan Wheldon

I was kind of surprised (because) I was under the impression they were going to do it with younger kids. But I guess they want to do whatever it takes to win.

Christopher Hill

I think they know our position and I guess we know their position because I don't think anything has changed.

Tom Izzo

It is a win-win-win. I guess on paper, if he goes, it looks like it's a lose for me. It's a lose if you look at the small picture, but a real win if you look at the big picture. The potential of maybe having three first-round picks is pretty impressive.

Johnny Damon

That would be nice. I guess we'll see what happens. I'm not too worried about it.

Rajon Rondo

That's what got me a starting role last year. Whoever's got the hot hand for Florida, I guess that's who I'll be checking.

Connie Lemos

Our mother did not want them to take Ritchie's name and whitewash it and they didn't. She liked it.

Reggie Larry

Out of all the schools that I was recruited by, they stuck with me from the beginning. I really liked them. I like it out in Idaho. Going up and meeting everybody, I liked all the coaches. It was not just about basketball, they're very sociable and you could talk to them about everything.

Sean Berdy

Planking is not as easy as you think, but it was very addicting to do in public! I liked the fun attention from the people when planking.

Jeff Sessions

I might have liked a different type nominee myself, but that's the president's choice.

Tom Moffett

We noticed in the paper they liked to shoot a lot of threes and we wanted to take that away from them.

Robert Pires

I will remind him of that one for sure, ... I was pleased with that, I liked it very much.

Mitch Hedberg

I wrote a script for a guy, and he said he liked it but he thought that I need to rewrite it. I said, Screw that, I'll just make a copy.

Jason Patric

I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.

Kaley Cuoco

I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.

Sherwood Boehlert

Our voice is being listened to now more than it has in the past.

DJ Paul

Right now, when you look around and listen to radio and watch television, hip-hop is taking over. Clothes, underwear, there is so much going on. Hip-hop is taking over.

George Michael

Please listen to this song. This one is called, 'Brother Can You Spare a Dime,'

Jerry Angelo

We've talked to some teams about players. I'm not going to get into the specific names, but it could be something we'll listen to.

Carrie Underwood

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

Bernadette Peters

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

Joe Gibbs

I will say this, we don't listen to him all the time or we'd be out here in our underwear.

Bill Burr

I don't mind either one [crowd that is more willing to interact or crowd that's more ready to just watch]. Both of them are forms of listening to what I'm saying so I can't ask for any more than that.

Geri Federico

That will be something we will do a lot of is listening to students.

Sully Erna

Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.

Estelle

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Keith Richards

Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

Bela Bartok

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Bela Bartok

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

B. B. King

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

B. B. King

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

Baltasar Gracian

Superiority is always detested.

Bob Enos

We've tried surgery, medications, and nothing has changed.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.

Joe Novak

We've tried A.J. at fullback and other types of things.

Sidney Crosby

I was too close, so I tried to back off and whack it. I didn't get it.

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Vernell Brown

He's got some big ones. If I was a coach, no way I'd have tried that.

Grant Hill

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.

Andy Fisher

Our understanding is that it is not yet in place.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Bill Shorten

I think they understand that what's being done is in their interests.

Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Charles Jackson

I think a lot of us don't understand circumstantial evidence.

Cervantes Saavedra

It is not the hand, but the understanding of a man, that may be said to write

Emma Stone

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

Vince Young

Just interview. I don't feel like I have to show a lot. I think they understand me, have been watching me for a long time.