Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vanessa Hudgens

My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

Colm Meaney

I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.

Denis Villeneuve

The truth is, when I started to make films, I was terrified. I had a huge difference in what I was writing in the screenplay and what was on the screen after. Sometimes there was a big gap. Now, the more I have experienced, the more I do movies, the more I feel that the dream is closer to the screen. It's coming with experience.

Charles Francis Richter

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.

Alexander Payne

I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.

Ban Ki-moon

When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.

Ban Ki-moon

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons. A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.

Carolyn Kizer

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

Gary Dellaverson

We are not in a good place. We should be closer now. There should be more progress. And I can't stand here and say that I am comfortable with the negotiations as they stand at this instant.

Bel Powley

I think that Hollywood misconstrues actresses saying, 'Oh I wanna play a strong female character,' like we all want to play, like, superheroes or something.

Bel Powley

I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Most female actresses will have a very difficult time being made unattractive.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

Sue Smith

We play Trivial Pursuit in the female version, rather than poker. There are six of us who are high school buddies.

Adrianne Palicki

I'm naturally athletic, and I think playing strong, female roles just kind of happened.

Catherine Asaro

I do sing a bit, a solo called 'Rubies,' and the female vocals on 'In Paradisum,' 'The Sound of Silence,' and 'Sapphire Clouds'.

Leah Busque

I've never thought of myself as a female engineer or founder or a woman in tech. I just think of myself as someone who's passionate.

Lynne Reid Banks

I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.

Chino Moreno

I grew up in the eighties; that's probably why I like some of the earlier electronic from Kraftwerk to all throughout new wave and things like that.

Chino Moreno

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music.

Eve Ensler

I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.

Chelsea Clinton

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

Bill Hader

I grew up with my two sisters and my mom, so it's my lot in life to be surrounded by women.

Eric Andre

I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida - the worst place on earth.

Drew Barrymore

I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

Damien Chazelle

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

Sevyn Streeter

I've been singing forever; I grew up singing in church.