Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Duchovny

There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have actual acting scars.

Beau Garrett

Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

Beatrice Wood

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

Antony Sher

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

Denzel Washington

We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.

Denzel Washington

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

Denzel Washington

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

Denzel Washington

The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.

David Remnick

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

David Henry Hwang

Consider it this way: what would you say if a blond homecoming queen fell in love with a short Japanese businessman? He treats her cruelly, then goes home for three years, during which time she prays to his picture and turns down marriage from a young Kennedy. Then, when she learns he has remarried, she kills herself. Now I believe you should consider this girl to be a deranged idiot, correct? But because it's an Oriental who kills herself for a Westerner–ah!–you find it beautiful.

David Heyman

I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of.

David Hockney

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.

David Hockney

There's no-one up there in Northern Norway , food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.

David Hockney

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

David Hockney

I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.

David Hockney

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

David Hume

There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric of human sentiment and affection.

David Vitter

The United Nations has no business in our elections.

David Robinson

I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.

David Dreman

Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.

August Bebel

The nature of business is swindling.

David Ogilvy

There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.

Frederic Bastiat

If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.

Chuck Mulloy

We acknowledge that representatives from the Korean FTC (Free Trade Commission) did pay an unscheduled visit to our office in Seoul earlier this week during normal business hours.

Alan Marks

We always feel we win in our business when we stay focused on our strategies and our customers. It has always been a competitive business and it will continue to be a competitive business.

Denis Waitley

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Kourtney Kardashian

We've always wanted to do a clothing line, and I personally love doing stuff with my sisters; I think it makes the whole process that much better.

Ed Smith

There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.

Louise Slaughter

I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.

Taylor Lautner

It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?

Thomas R. Kelly

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

Amir Abdulla

Since the earthquake struck in October, these helicopters have been crucial in transporting food and non-food items, like medicine and warm clothing and they have helped to prevent many deaths.

Owen Fitzpatrick

Since it's a quiet day in economic news, I think retail sales numbers are the big story out there today, and they seem to be a little disappointing, especially clothing store sales.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, the shaven-headed ones are devils. They are not pleased to hear these words. When it rains, there is happiness. Water is the key to all life. When it rains, the corn grows, and the sugar cane, and the cotton, which provides clothing for all.

Susan Whitson

We've actually never disclosed her clothing size. And, since I would like to keep my job, I don't think I would say what her size is.

Condoleezza Rice

We are very focused on hoping that these negotiations do succeed,

Ben Jackson

Last year we were focused on going to states and this year we're more taking it one game at a time,

Bruce Thompson

The program has been under way for three years now and has focused on the development of equipment-testing techniques, so they may be used for longer periods time safely.

Shanen Boettcher

There is a lot more to providing a biometrics platform than what the consortium is focused on.

Stanley B. Prusiner

From the point of view of many scientists, gods represent an explanation for the unknown. Scientists are focused on trying to understand the unknown, so there is a fundamental conflict. That said, some scientists find religion useful and perhaps even fulfilling.

Karl Hobbs

We're just trying to follow our dreams. That's it and that's all we're focused on. We can't tell you about anything in the past.

Diane Tuller

We have as good a shot as anybody. We just have to get focused on the court, not the arena.

Robert Esche

My first thought? You can't write it. I'm focused on seven games. I'm focused on leaving this one behind.

Peter Rohde

Obviously we're focused on not getting players rubbed out, but at the same time we don't want to make them too gun-shy.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.

Jamal Lewis

Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.

Thomas Middleditch

I've had the fortune of meeting most of the 'Kids in the Hall.' One meeting was special in particular because this was before I had gotten anything, before anything was clicking, and I just found myself hanging out with Scott Thompson.

Barbara Kingsolver

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same

Carlos Fuentes

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

Charles de Gaulle

It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

Arthur Helps

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Edward Gibbon

The fortune of nations has often depended on accidents . . .

Belle Boyd

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

David Duchovny

You're kinda striding the line of what's yours and theirs. What's yours (points to us), what's mine, what's ours as creators of it and what's yours as owners.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I did smoke a joint and I did inhale. The bottom line is that's what it was in the '70s, that's what I did.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Lines are very difficult to learn.

Bear Grylls

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

Deepa Mehta

While we're working on the script, I never see any films. I make it a point because I don't want to get distracted. I don't want to be influenced, and before I know it, have somebody say, "My God, she plagiarized that line."

Diana Nyad

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

Channing Tatum

If I want to do action, you don't really get to do it. They don't let you, there's too much on the line to let you jump out of a building.

Billy Bob Thornton

Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.

H. Hart

When the offensive line is playing well, I don't think it really matters.

Kathryn Lasky

I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!

Robert Krulwich

When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions.

Brian Price

Look, we would have loved to have won the ballgame, no question about it,

David Justice

This was a team that really loved each other. It's rare that you find a team that really pulls for each other, that really loves each other.

Ronald Williams

She really loved her neighbors there. She made a lot of friends there.

Angela Ross

She never complained about it. She loved those kids.

Linda Thompson

She loved to travel with me and my sister. If we called and said we were going anywhere, we had to take her along.

Patricia Bryant

She loved to talk to people; even people she didn't know.

Andre Cohen

She loved tattoos. All that's gone. All her skin is gone.

James Frecheville

Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

F. Stone

Let's just say it would be in the millions of dollars,

Thulasiraj Ravilla

A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see.

Louie Schwartzberg

The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It's very heavenly.

Paul Moreno

We've restored power to about 1.328 million people, but 89,000 are still without.

Ted Cruz

And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

William Stafford

One way to find your place is likethe rain, a million requestsfor lodging, one that wins, findsyour cheek: you find your home.

Kevin Wilson

Money's not everything - the volunteering professionals to get this thing done is worth more than anything ... that's worth a million dollars,

Stephen F. Lynch

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

Robert Price

We had been at Warehouse C-11 in Atlanta, where we had played before,

John Calipari

Let me tell you, we played well. Don't think we didn't play well, we're not much better than they.

Dan Dersam

Leah played exceptionally well in the first half. In the second half, they did everything but tie her shoes together to try and stop her.

Tim Finchem

I've never played golf with Tiger Woods. To tell the truth, I'm not sure that watching him pound it 100 yards past me all day is something I'd like to do.

Erik King

I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.

Edmond H. Fischer

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

Ed Speleers

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

Lesley Nicol

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

George Higgins

This proves there's no such thing as the No Smile Line, don't you think.

John Chambers

This proves our strategy is working in terms of the convergence of voice, video and data.

Kirby Copeland

This proves a lot. We can come out and play with the No. 3 team in the nation.

Steve Mitchell

We're a service industry, what a town does is it proves services. We need to be able to look and see how we are raising revenues to provide these services.

Azzam Tamimi

If the tape is genuine, then this proves what we have been saying all along,

Michael Bailey

What it proves is it's not completely genetic. They have the same genes.

Bayan Jabr

I will punish them if (an investigation) proves they are responsible for any violations.

Joe Davis

He kind of proves that you can still serve long after you take off your uniform.

Takashi Sensui

There is no real success for the Xbox unless it proves successful in Japan.

David Riesman

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

Denis Waitley

The world needs role models, instead of critics.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Charles Barkley

I'm not a role model.

Channing Tatum

No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

Romeo Miller

I didn't even dance at my high school prom, and I have turned down so many movie roles because I didn't know how to dance.

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Jason Clarke

I can't complain about the roles that have come my way.

Tyra Banks

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

Kourtney Kardashian

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Theaster Gates

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Steve Prentice

More than ever, what we spend on is more important than how much we spend.

Jonathan Moreland

Why spend time trying to read this guy's tea leaves?

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Audrey Meadows

We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches.

Audrey Hepburn

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Audre Lorde

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.

Audre Lorde

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.

Denzel Washington

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Denise Levertov

I'll dig in into my days, having come here to live, not to visit. Grey is the price of neighboring with eagles, of knowing a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen.

Denise Levertov

If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening.

Charles Darwin

Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, butwhether or not proportionally to his larger body, has not, I believe, been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of skull smaller; the outlines of the body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.

Chris Evans

What does a woman want? More.

Beatrix Potter

I am worn to a raveling.

Doris Payne

I am real pained by this, but I am worn out.

Roy H. Williams

Basically, Tyler's just worn out. I think he's completely spent.

Brady Quinn

I don't think he's worn all of them at the same time.

Lee J. Cobb

The HUAC did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn't borrow.

Benjamin Franklin

Had I revenged wrong, I had not worn my skirts so long.

Jeff Horner

We weren't worn down. We just didn't make plays.

Tyra Banks

I have worn fake hair since I was 17 years old.

Bruce Arena

That's Brian. It's uncommon, but that's why Brian's worn the captain's armband as well.