Nailed Quotations

The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody else could have played. Pacino owned Michael Corleone... but DeNiro could have owned it as well. Who else, though, but Val Kilmer could have nailed Jim Morrison? Does anyone besides Will Ferrell pull off Ron Burgundy?

Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked 'Howl's Moving Castle.' Lord, give me strength! Also, IT, please disconnect the e-mail thing.

Every time a consumer walks into a retail store, experiences the Nokia experience for the first time and purchases that product. Those are the moments where you say, 'We've hit it. We've nailed it.'

'Peace Mom' is my most heartfelt, but I am most proud of 'Myth America' because I nailed the problem and gave the solutions long before the Occupy Movement. I think it's a great organic class analysis.

I was born singing. My father tells this story about when I was 3 weeks old, how I would rock in the crib and sing in the crib all night long. My crib would roll across the floor in the middle of the night. Finally, my father nailed its legs to the floor.

I'm not a good writer, and I don't care. Unfortunately, after I left college, I didn't have time much for literature. I wish I did. Most of the time I read documents, and that's not going to help your writing. But I'm a very logical writer, and you can't get out of me. Once I've nailed you, you're finished.

Of all the soul divas, Gladys Knight was the one for me. Knight's always been about tone and heart, none of the big showboating or extraneous doodling. She nailed a melody and only played a little around the edges like Ma Staple.

The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

We experimented a lot with it but we felt more comfortable with four guards in there. I think we nailed things down.

We did great on floor. We came out really aggressive and nailed all our landings. As a coaching staff we're trying to figure out how we lost our aggressiveness on vault.

We really haven't nailed down exactly what the paint skin is going to be on it, ... but it's going to be a good-looking bike.

We have had too many in the last couple of games, and we have to get rid of them. I'm disappointed I got nailed with a penalty at a crucial time in the game.

This provides us an opportunity to extend our reach and bring added value to the fans. After we nailed down our other TV packages, we now are turning our attention to other media deals, such as on the Net and video-on-demand.

When we sort of got close to production, her name kept coming up. She came in and read and she nailed it.

Madonna has nailed it with this record and we are rolling it out very big indeed.

Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this is often a most unfortunate and repulsive beginning.

She showed up today and had her game face on. She nailed her race.

Poor J.P. Morgan. The company has got nailed on everything from Enron to Argentina and bad loans, ... But if we see the economy recover, the financial services will do well.

I couldn't have done any better. I knew if I nailed that first vault and took the sting in my ankles, the rest would take care of itself.

Bryan did a nice job for us. The very first pitch in the first, he nailed one. He knocked another one through the middle with the infield drawn in. He walked and scored the other time. That made a big, big difference.

I don't think we quite have it nailed down, but it would appear the recurrence time for the 1906 event is 200 years. So, it looks like we are safe for a while from a recurrence. I'm pretty happy about that fact.

He nailed the big one. We believe we have the goaltending that can seal the deal.

He nailed the big one. The question was, can he rise to the big game? And he did.

He nailed it when he said a good song makes people think, move and feel. That's what we try to do with every song we write and record. If people are doing all three of those things, then we did our job. Making music is not a one-dimensional thing.

He came through the door and he was really nervous, which again made me excited because, OK, this isn't someone who is professional and wearing a mask and being slick and all that. His first take was horrible, and I was totally crestfallen. I told him to stop acting, and he nailed it. It was a sort of 'meant to be' type of thing.

her right foot is nailed to the floor in having to defend the Iraq war.

Hitting a Major League baseball. I wasn't that good at either one. I think I've got the marriage thing nailed down now and that took me three tries. I know I can't hit the fastball anymore.

He just nailed it, ... I don't know how he nailed it; that's why he's Steve Martin ... he's a scientist of the heart, or something.

Harvard Medical School is famous for asking interviewees to open a window that is nailed shut.

Harold just keeps getting better. I can't imagine doing this play with anyone else. He had it nailed from the word go, but over the years, you learn things and experience things that enhance the performance.

I thought that kick was a big momentum changer. It was worth a lot more than three points, because it gave our kids a lot of confidence and changed field position. I knew it needed distance and I was scared it would get blocked, but John nailed it.

I think that charged the club. Whether he hit Bobby to send a message or not, I think the team backed up Bobby. We scored five unanswered runs, and that nailed the coffin.

I think at some point, we're going to make a decision of who's going to start the first game of the playoffs. But let's get in the playoffs, we still don't have that nailed down. In the meantime, we're using all of our players to get us there.

I was a little disappointed that they nailed me during the winter.

I saw a kid I liked right out of the blue. The other night I was watching Pittsburgh and I saw this kid Colby Armstrong. Pittsburgh's going nowhere. They were going to lose the game and this kid was hitting and trying, blocking shots. He gets nailed at centre ice and bounced right up. He's playing like it's the seventh game of the Stanley Cup. I just love it when I see guts like that.

Our supply of lineout ball was an issue and there were just too many turnovers. We had opportunities we didn't take and we should have nailed a couple more tries.

Our friend Robbie Taylor called the bird in for him on our farm, and he nailed it. Not bad.

Our basic policy is, wherever it is, until you've got something substantive committed and nailed down, there's really not much to talk about. Once you have something, you're happy to talk about it. It could be right now that we have multiple sites, multiple things legally that you're looking at.

It enables you to create balance and direction over the rubber. It freed him to where all his energy was going to home plate. His command today was outstanding. He just nailed a spot over and over and over again.

I think he's nailed it. This is about moving forward or just fighting to survive. If we have George W., that's what it will be for us, just trying to survive.

I think George just nailed the whole thing, the whole time period, the whole look and feel of what that newsroom was like. I did a lot of research for the role and believe me, it's all pretty genuine, down to the very last cigarette butt.

We just couldn't get the offense going. We did hit the ball well, we got five hits, but Rifle played well and turned some nice double plays. It was that fateful third inning that hurt us. Eli Snead from Rifle nailed a huge home run right into the wind.

We got behind and had to foul them, and they nailed their free throws. We cut a 17-point lead down.

We played pretty much every song we know. It was just one time through and we nailed it.

We were sitting there watching the coffin being nailed shut, and what was inside was imagination and vision. With Carl Sagan, we determined to change that.

Yeah, totally! I think you've nailed it! You know, I don't think SOULFLY sounds like SEPULTURA , myself. I think it's just that whole connection that people have with Max . I think it's just like a vibe thing with most fans. But I consider myself a fan of music first, and I agree with you. You know, I definitely think SOULFLY sounds like SOULFLY , and I think that SOULFLY is more of a groove-oriented band. As opposed to SEPULTURA , which was really thrashy and pretty much straight metal. I mean 'Roots' was a really groovy record, and half the songs on that were really groovy, but I think that that was a natural progression of the way that Max was writing at the time. And then, as opposed to the way we do stuff now.

This year the real question is 'how do we streamline our operations so we don't get nailed so hard when these energy prices spike like they do'.

We've had three or four scripts written, and we've never quite nailed what we wanted to do. We've got a new writer. A very famous writer, a Pulitzer Prize winner indeed. I can't name him because I don't know the situation at the moment. You can't tell someone's life story in two hours on film.

We've really got availability nailed (with Solaris 8) and have completely removed scalability issues. IPv6 can bring China online because they're running out of IP (Internet Protocol) addresses.

We are very, very concerned about revisionist history. While we that lived through it are there, we want this thing nailed down in the next five years.

We had played lights out in the month of September, but I don't know what happened last week. Coming into this last week I thought we had it nailed down, especially how we were playing.

At this point, we don't have any concrete options that we can talk about. We don't have everything nailed down.

Thank God she did it. The arrangement changes keys three times, and she generally doesn't like to do that. Everyone basically that night just started reading it for the first time. I said, 'Do you want to play piano?' And she said, 'Sure, I'll do both.' So she played piano and sang simultaneously, and that was the first take. She nailed it. Beautifully. She's an incredibly gifted musician.

Coming into this last week, I thought we had it nailed down, especially with the way we were playing,

Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.

Anything that isn't nailed down, they pick up and take home to their districts.

As long as people can find the right merchandise, have a job and borrow a little bit, they are going to go shopping. Overall, the holiday season was good. Retailers who had it all nailed down were the winners.

You nailed it. You couldn't have done it any better.

This is nothing more than special-interest legislation for an irresponsible developer who was nailed by the 3rd Circuit Court for polluting the water and desecrating burials and avoiding our land-use law, and now the Legislature's going to bail him out at the expense of our agricultural land.

They were doubling up on Wayne and Gerald whenever they had the ball which freed up (Tim) Ivory and (Pat) Kelly. Kelly had some open looks in the first half and passed them up for whatever reason. But he nailed those 3 threes in the third quarter, which was key.

They're still working on the script - they've got to get that nailed down and they want the first movie to come out obviously, not get too ahead of themselves. But yeah, it's looking good. I love the second book a lot as well, so kind of diving into that is awesome.

Almost every year there is one package that goes out, and this year it is yet to be nailed down. There's a bunch of people talking about different things, but there is no definitive hip-hop package out there. We'll know probably in the next four weeks whether a package is going to form or not.

They nailed us in November. We'll see how we deal with them in March.

They really nailed her on the interview. The judges were ruthless.

Abercrombie & Fitch and American Eagle seem to have really nailed it. They have great popularity. They've hit a great line, both moving in the right direction. We see great upside for the next year in both of those names,

It's a relatively slow-growing market. I wouldn't say it's doing great in Europe because the technology is in the early stage of adoption. It's reaching critical mass, but nobody has hit the home run and nailed the market entirely.

It was a split second. I nailed it in training. I gave it my best.

It's almost the best cast I think I've ever worked with. The voices are so distinctive, they really nailed their characters. ... For me, in this particular case, it almost becomes more like a live-action movie, because their voices are so strong.

It's tournament time, so you have to keep a constant effort, and that's what we tried to get done tonight. Nobody let up. At halftime coach just nailed into us that we need to keep playing hard, and that's what we tried to do.

They came out in the third (quarter) and nailed those 3s, and those were daggers.

They buried us in the third. We didn't score early, Robbie Harman nailed a couple of threes and they took it to us.

They loved him more than me . I would have nailed Bond .

They'll steal anything. It doesn't matter what it is. If your shoes aren't nailed down, they'll steal them.

So basically, at this point, all indications point to the fact that we'll need to raise rates this calendar year. What we don't have nailed down yet is the percentage.

I knew I was going to shoot it. I just nailed it.

I guess my day is coming, ... I tried real hard. I just got nailed in the rear end on the last lap and turned sideways. I didn't expect it.

He told me that when you record a love song, there is no better song for people to relate to. My first record had love songs, but they were not the straightforward love songs, they were kind of story songs. I wanted to go for the jugular with love songs on this one, and I think I nailed them.

He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!

Caroline has grown a bit and she's stronger than she was last year. It looks likes she's really nailed down the spot at third base.

Heather tried a more difficult first pass on floor. It's a big risk, and it could have a big payoff. Unfortunately she fell in the meet even though she nailed it in warm-ups. But its good, she needs to make a statement if she wants to make nationals.

The guy they thought they could get over on and take advantage of nailed them. My client feels vindicated.

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.

The girls just went out and did their thing. They went out in all three rounds, did a great job, nailed their routines, and were just on.