Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Riesman

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.

David Hockney

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it's a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.

Derek Fisher

You have to work hard at things.

Derek Jeter

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Derek Jeter

I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don't short-change yourself. Keep working to get better.

Derek Jeter

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Dee Dee Ramone

It's very hard to tour.

Deepika Padukone

I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.

Kelli O'Hara

When I've done TV and film, when it's offered to me, I loved doing it, and I would do it again, but the ins and outs of auditioning is - that's time away from my kids.

Rob James-Collier

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Brett Gardner

We have had a lot of requests about our Y2K status, but no one has offered in any way to give us a hand.

William Brownfield

For more than 20 years, the United States has offered replacement parts for the F-16 planes,

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

Logan Marshall-Green

When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.

Don MacAdam

We'd end up in the office talking hockey. He offered (to coach), and I'm not one to turn down help.

Robert Powell

I was 24 when I was offered 'Doomwatch.' There was an option for a further series, and I turned it down. It is a wonderfully glorious thing to be unknowingly arrogant.

Dennis Lillee

Just the other day he told me Dougie Walters had phoned. I thought, 'that's good' and he said, 'yeah, he offered me his liver. I said no thanks, I'll take my chances.

Paul Register

Many times you have witnesses who are reluctant to come forward.

Mark Howard

He was reluctant to integrate. And he wasn't alone.

NeNe Leakes

I was kind of reluctant to sing on the 'Housewives' because there are so many 'Housewives' that are singing that can't really sing. I didn't want to get out there and sing and not be taken seriously.

James Greenwood

Reluctant witnesses will not keep us from getting at the truth.

Ian Baker

We were very reluctant to make the move, but we had no choice.

Dean Darling

We don't want them (veterans) unaware or reluctant to seek out services for which they are entitled.

John Negroponte

I've been very reluctant to get into numbers.

Eve Ensler

At first women were reluctant to talk. They were a little shy, but once they got going, you couldn't stop them.

Cindy Winstead

At first I was very reluctant and for about three weeks I was unable to sleep.

Dick Cavett

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

Al Yankovic

When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

Callie Khouri

Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.

Kim Cattrall

I don't really watch television, and I don't watch these shows that promote shows.

Carson Daly

It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.

Tracie Thoms

I like shows that are ensemble-based, that explore the humanity of every character.

Casey Wilson

So many shows don't have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.

Brian Henson

The show is probably 60 percent improvising and 40 percent not. So there's quite a bit of it that we do have prepared and that part of it, you have memorized and you've rehearsed and you're prepared, just like any show.

Demetri Martin

I never set out to do a sketch show.

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Dave Orlandini

We've turned the corner. We still have a long way to go, but at least we can see the road. Before we couldn't even see the road.

Monty Python

Well she turned me into a newt!""A newt?""I got better...

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Sheldon Danziger

I was surprised. I thought things would have turned around by now.

Tubby Smith

We really got rattled. They really had another gear; they turned it up.

Timothy Simons

When I was in Chicago, I was working as a carpenter while I was doing plays. I thought it'd be a fun set construction job, but it turned up to just be a straight-up factory.

Diablo Cody

It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

Dick Cavett

Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place.

Magnus Scheving

LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.

Azita Ghanizada

TV and film has defined my entire life.

Brian Eno

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

Edward Ruscha

I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.

Bruce Willis

Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.

Brit Hume

Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.