Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bel Powley

I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded character. And it's not a woman who's just there for the purpose of the man.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Granth Sahib

True is my place, and True is my seat; I have made Truth my life's purpose

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

Dave Barry

Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You."

Mark Cuban

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

Bo Burnham

Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.

Anton Chekhov

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

John A. Wheeler

We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is a participatory universe.

Mira Nair

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

Dean Stanley

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

Padgett Powell

I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.

Charlotte Bronte

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned.

Charles Dudley Warner

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Charles Dudley Warner

Politics make strange bedfellows.

Charles Dickens

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

Alan Arkin

Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I've ever experienced. It's made more difficult by the fact that it's constantly changing. You never know what class you belong to unless you're one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.

Colm Meaney

I love doing comedy. You don't get many good comedy scripts. They're rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human.

Emma Roberts

I'd love to do a comedy like 'Bridesmaids;' I think that would be so fun. I would play the Kristen Wiig character.

Colin Firth

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.

Francine Prose

Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style by absorbing the lucid sentences of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson.

Casey Wilson

Molly Shannon, for example, is someone I've always really looked up to, because her comedy is so physical and wild and unembarrassed and brave.

Ginnifer Goodwin

Sometimes I make very selfish choices; like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.

Tracy Morgan

No one set that I ever do is the same. I mean, if I go to a comedy club, and I perform three sets, all three sets are different because anything can happen in between sets.

Mike Birbiglia

When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Philip Seymour Hoffman character in 'Almost Famous,' in my life, and there just wasn't. It was really frustrating for me because I desired that so much.

Cayden Boyd

I like comedy a lot, and dramatics show how I can really act. Because a lot of people can do comedy - I'm not saying it's easy, but dramatics are very hard.