Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diahann Carroll

I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's... and I'm lucky to be affiliated.

Jane Birkin

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

Ayelet Zurer

If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don't know the director. If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen.

Busta Rhymes

My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding and being lucky enough to finally get a shot.

Carroll O'Connor

I'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky.

Brian Wilson

I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

Tim Russert

Of course, if he had a wife he would say, 'Honey, you're lucky to have me.'

Patty Schnyder

She was maybe lucky in the first set, a little bit, to win it. Sometimes it's like that.

Paul Duca

Show it, sell it and if you don't get it, you don't get it. We were lucky enough to get it.

David Duchovny

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.

David Brinkley

Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.

Benedict Cumberbatch

One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

Beau Bridges

Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

Barry Bostwick

In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The West has never been all of the world that matters. The West has not been the only actor on the stage of modern history even at the peak of the West's power (and this peak has perhaps now already been passed)... It has not been the West that has been hit by the world; it has been the world that has been hit - and hit hard - by the West.

Antonin Artaud

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

Derek Jacobi

Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors.

Arthur Baer

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

Bruce Schneier

If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

Eddie Murphy

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.

Ben Casnocha

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

Vidya Balan

Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!

Adam Schiff

Too much under the thumb of the Iranians.

Adam Arkin

I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.

Michael Sheen

My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.

James Joyce

Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.