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.

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

I have actual acting scars.

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 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.

Beau Bridges

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

Kevin Rose

With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.

Kevin McDonald

Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director.

Kathy Mattea

So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.

Ma Huateng

In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.

Joe Wurzelbacher

I'm allowed to have my opinions as an American, but it seems the Left becomes very intolerant when you have an opinion other than what they state.

Cynthia Saccocia

When you put these services out on the Web, you can also employ new rules that allow for better data gathering, and better data often equates to profitable business being written because the requirements are clear and the processes are defined.

Tshepo Peege

We can no longer allow the situation to continue where Africa's skies are known as the most dangerous in the world.

Karen Friel

We needed a run. We needed a stretch where we could get three or four turnovers in a row to get back in the game. But they never allowed us to do that.

Douglas Booth

I believe if you're prepared to kill the animal, you're allowed to eat it.

Al Capone

They can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.

Tommy Chong

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

Jan C. Ting

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

Jason Chaffetz

Straw purchasing is illegal.

Elie Wiesel

No human being is illegal.

Elie Wiesel

How can a human being be illegal?

Barbara Kingsolver

A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.

Dan Stein

Millions of American workers, in all sectors of the labor market, have seen their jobs and wages undercut by the phenomenon of mass illegal immigration.

Jo Handelsman

Some of it is outright illegal behavior, but most of it is subtle. It makes women feel undervalued and not respected.

Ralph Trine

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Benjamin Booker

I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.

Calvin Coolidge

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

Brian May

Mantovani was a great influence on me.

Drake Bell

My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

Tom Lewis

MLK really left his mark even today and influences us in our community.

Alexandra Shipp

My influences are, number one, hand to Jesus, Halle Berry. I think that she's so brilliant, and I love everything that she does, even 'Catwoman.'

Jonathan Lethem

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

Lykke Li

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

Jasmine Guy

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

Vladimir Putin

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

Aaron Spelling

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

Daniel Craig

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

Adrienne Rich

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

Donald Ray Pollock

I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that with my talent. I don't think it would come off.

Jose Maldonado

You'd think if he was a violent offender, they wouldn't let him be out.

Diane Polan

This is not a violent offense. It was a consensual relationship.

Shaun Alexander

It is what it is. We play a violent sport.