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 Horowitz

I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have been not only the key to much of the knowledge I have acquired, but also have given me a direction within my profession. The best thing about the library is that it is available not only to me, but to everyone. It does not discriminate.

Benicio Del Toro

I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence and drugs is portrayed in exaggeration. This is fiction. That is how I looked at it. And, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Just open a newspaper.

Ben Stiller

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.

Bear Grylls

I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

Audrey Tautou

I'm not inspired by any career because I don't have any expectations.

Arn Tellem

The rule should be HS students should be allowed to pursue their career

Arnold Palmer

I never felt I could be a complete professional without having won the British Open. It was something you had to do to complete your career.

Benh Zeitlin

Local casting is just something I love doing.

Kevin Alejandro

I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and I'd love to do some period pieces with classical text. I'd love somebody to cast me as Macbeth, but for a film. I just want to be all over the place.

Bible Bible

When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

Tommy Rettig

So, in the last year, the whole cast sued for release from our contracts.

Thomas Sangster

When I'm working, I look forward to weekends. Film sets give your time a structure; otherwise, one day can run into another. I often find myself in unusual locations, so Friday nights I might head out with some of the cast and crew to explore the town.

Rich Sommer

I was a temp for three years in New York when I was auditioning; when I was cast in 'Mad Men,' I was still a temp. I'm good at making copies; I'm good at typing things. I'm good at killing the day and making it look like I'm doing something.

Issa Rae

I think that just because the show is titled 'Awkward Black Girl' and it is a predominantly black cast doesn't mean that you shouldn't be able to relate to these people. We're all human beings. We all essentially go through the same things when it comes down to it, so I don't I think that should limit who watches it.

Kurt Browning

I have been performing and touring and doing shows all over the world. But it's really something special to get back on the U.S. cast of 'Stars on Ice.' It's something I let go because of family commitments.

Donald Trump

Make sure that this embargo stays in effect and drives Castro into oblivion.

Denzel Washington

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

Alan Cumming

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Kevin McDonald

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

Michael Posner

When I was at the Toronto Film Festival this week, I saw this wonderful Brazilian film called House of Sand. Since the movie was so terrific, and Delray has a large Brazilian population, I thought it would make for a nice addition. When I spoke to the film's director himself and told him about the Delray Film Festival, he instantly said yes.

Isabella Rossellini

My father's films are often very slow for the modern audiences, which are used to a lot of editing. It's the audience that watches the film instead of the director dictating the reaction he wants from you.

Leslie Caron

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.

Kristen Stewart

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

Tao Okamoto

My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.

Emraan Hashmi

I am tired of kissing on screen. I have to do it because it is synonymous with me. Also, the producers and directors want to add that element. I don't give it too much importance.

David Brooks

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Baron Davis

I am the donation to the foundation.

Antony Garrett Lisi

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.

Russ Pate

We always found the right person at the right time for the right job. Of course, you need volunteers, and we had so many who contributed.

Blaise Pascal

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

Johan Cruyff

My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.

Robert Barnes

When I was a young man, I was overly sensitive to things, and I found it difficult to eat when I was nervous.

Jared Kennedy

We're glad we can get the news out that this is an option. We were just glad we found out about it.

Doug Tobin

We're glad he's found and he's reunited with his loved one.

Benjamin Franklin

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

Ann Andrews

Right now, I see nothing. Just a lot of thick brush, a harsh terrain.

John Stack

For too many years, we only saw pictures like that in a Hollywood movie. Now it's harsh reality, and it's sobering.

Aml Ameen

We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world.

Shari Arison

I saw things before they happened, and that scared me very much. The premonitions would always be accompanied by harsh and painful physical sensations.

David Beckham

I thought the first yellow was harsh and the second even harsher,

Dwyane Wade

I think it's what he wants. He knows he's an important option on offense and knows what we expect. I'm sure he doesn't think we've been harsh about it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves than with others

Don Stark

He speaks out pretty strongly and quickly and some would say harshly on ... what he would see as a sort of giveaway to big business.

David Ricardo

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

Barry Commoner

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

Alan Dershowitz

The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

Charles Darwin

Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Blaise Pascal

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Blaise Pascal

Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.

Blaise Pascal

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

Stephen Colletti

Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do.

Gary Collins

She told me she was thinking seriously about it.

Abu Sabaya

If they wanted to seriously talk to us, they should show it by removing the military. While the soldiers are here, there will be no talking.

Jim Gillespie

We're not going to be taken seriously if we speak or we may not have a voice at all,

Bryan Williams

We take every setback seriously because we want to stay on schedule. We'll keep testing.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

Tone Loc

I was actually very into all of that seriously and I didn't really want to be carryin' all of that over, the street life, into the studio.

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Char Seward

I think it should have been taken seriously then.

Dick Cavett

The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.

Donita Stewart

She is very independent, and suddenly she couldn't do the things that she's always done.

Mark Woodhead

(Miller) just hoisted us up. Defensively, she got about three picks. We were down two at half, and all of a sudden we're up by five, that was critical.

Dan Gorrell

I don't think Americans are telling us all of a sudden they want small. They are telling us they want more affordable.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

Nicole Ari Parker

I have one little pooch-y stomach in a picture, and all of a sudden I'm pregnant.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

Sam Worthington

I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

Gary Jones

Suddenly you've got this big-screen, movie-screen, home-theater experience, wherever you are.

David Viscott

Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

David House

People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

David Hilbert

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

David Hilbert

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

David Hume

Time is a perishable commodity.

David Brainerd

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

David Brainerd

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

Beatrice Wood

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

Arthur Rimbaud

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Larenz Tate

'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; we did not know what to expect. I was a kid, and my father took me, and we didn't leave. It was so disturbing, but we loved it.

Trinny Woodall

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

Barbara Green

She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Gary Gambardella

She was a fortune-teller, and she took this woman for a fortune.

Jason Swearingen

We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Eric Norris

Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this.

Neil Callaway

Basically, we took him just because he's a big kid.

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.