Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Wilkinson

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

Tom Wilkinson

When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.

Tom Wilkinson

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

Tom Wilkinson

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

Tom Wilkinson

Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

Tom Wilkinson

It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

Tom Wilkinson

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

Tom Wilkinson

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

Tom Wilkinson

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills.

Carlos Mesa

I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.

Carlos Gonzalez

I feel good hitting in the three-hole. I guess that's where everybody wants to be. You want the responsibility of hitting in the middle of the lineup.

Jaswant Singh

We have never said we are absolved of our responsibility,

Agnes Repplier

Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

Aaron Sorkin

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

Alan Trammell

We're all responsible. I'm the leader, the captain of the ship, and I have to take responsibility.

Charles W. Pickering

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

Charles Dudley Warner

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

Bruce Vilanch

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

Diablo Cody

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

Scott Trost

We made a little adjustment. We switched off on screens on him. We made him work for all his shots.

Joe Sakic

I didn't do much. I was just trying to get a screen in there. He shot it, and it just went off my stick.

Buck Henry

We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.

Eleanor Parker

I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.

Hill Harper

Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks.

Sidney Poitier

If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.

Christopher Darden

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.