Up To You Quotations

People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.

I'd rather you didn't talk, but it's up to you.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody.' When you care about them, they'll open up to you.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

I've still kind of maintained a low profile but people still kind of recognize you and will come up to you, and that's taken a bit of getting used to.

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.

It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.

Don't worry. Don't apologize. Don't cower behind the defeated security of there is no 'room for someone like me'. There isn't room for any one of us. It's up to you to make a place for yourself in the world. So get to work.

Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

You can seek clarity, you can seek warmth, you can try to make something for lasting. You can pack something in salt so that it's well made and you can hope that it outlasts time. But, ultimately that's not up to you.

It's up to us to save the world for tomorrow: it's up to you and me.

Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot.

You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.

Love takes many forms - it is up to you to choose which you wish to express.

There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.

Being snubbed is not always a bad thing at awards shows because you end up getting a lot of people coming up to you and telling you how great you are.

You are a human with one life and it is up to you to make it the best life you can.

It's exciting when kids look up to you or kids come up to you and ask for your autograph. When grown ups come up to you, that's really not exciting. Why would a grown man be excited for meeting another grown man?

The further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you.

You only have a number for one day. After that, it is all up to you

With wealth, I can do pretty much what I want. But you've got to provide a good example because you have a lot of people that look up to you now.

There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

It’s up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.

When God calls you to something, He is not always calling you to succeed, He’s calling you to obey! The success of the calling is up to Him;the obedience is up to you.

Being young and being first-round picks and everything, people look up to you and look for you to lead. It's something Brett and I are able to do, and we can use each other to help each other out.

When a fan comes up to you and says I love your music, there’s nothing better than that.

Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.

Dear Alec and Magnus, How are you? Everything's just fine here. Thanks for you postcard with the picture of the Taj Mahal. It looks nice. Disregard my last few postcards. I see I overdid it. To make it up to you, I'm going to redecorate Magnus's loft for free. -Izzy

If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere; it's up to you, New York, New York.

When God closes a door, he opens a window, but it's up to you to find it.

Your physical safety is up to you, as it really always has been.

It is up to you to give life a meaning.

Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

I'm going to do my thing and if you react a certain way - with pity or with anger - that's up to you.

But the thing is if you've got an hour to sit down in front of a television, then the likelihood is that you've probably got two hours. So why wouldn't you, if you're enjoying it not want to watch the other one? And so, this is the future. Ten episodes at once is what everyone wants, and then it's up to you how you spread those out

Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.

There is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far. Then its up to you to make it happen.

What you do, who you’re with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you.

Your Destiny is chosen by God, Your future is certain, whether you arrive there is up to you

What people need to do is conserve what they have, .. There is a supply out there; we just need to conserve it. Going up and loading up your tank is not going to do that much. It's just going to deplete the supply, and the problem will eventually catch up to you.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

Well, I beat my man. Now it's up to you to beat yours.

You can choose, don't confuse, win or lose, it's up to you.

If you don't like what you're getting, then change what you're doing. It's up to you.

When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others.

Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.

If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.

Whenever you are in anger, remember yourself. In that very remembering the focus changes, the gestalt changes. You become more and more centred. Anger remains there just on the periphery of your being, but you know now that it is separate from you. You are not angry, you are only a witness to it. Now it is up to you to choose to be angry or not to be angry. You are no more identified; hence the freedom to choose.

It’s entirely up to you, Artie. He lives or dies by your word. (Acheron) No, akri! Don’t ask her that. She never let me have no fun. She a mean goddess! (Simi)

Well, I guess I’m just not as special as you are. (Urian) No one knows their true mettle until it’s been tested. This is yours. Whether you pass or fail is entirely up to you. I can’t tell you what to do, but I know where I’ll be tonight. (Acheron)

I often tell my students that you can't worry about the end of an improv scene because the end is not up to you. You just play as hard as you can until someone changes the scene. The scene has changedthe end is not up to us.

I opened up to you and you judge me

It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club

You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.

People come up to me and say, 'Emo, do people really come up to you?'

Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

The sex tape rumor had nothing to do with me, that's why it's so weird. It's like, if you have a sex tape, that's up to you. I want nothing to do with it.

God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.

I've worked with Woody Allen twice and he was like, "Whatever you want to change, it's up to you. If you want to change the words, make them your own."

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.

It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.

You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

It's almost embarrassing to be out in public and someone comes up to you and says, 'My mother had the same thing you did.' What do you say? I don't know what to say to make them feel better about their situation.

... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through

You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you.

You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans - it's up to you.

The world is not there to please you. It's up to you to please the world.

It's much easier to have nothing to live up to. You surprise people when you form a full sentence.

It's all up to you, girls. You have to be strong. These are the days of post-women's liberation. You have grown up by now and you have to take care of yourself. No one's going to help you.

You can laugh or you can cry. It is up to you which one you do.

It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but apart from making you feel warmer, it wouldn’t do any good. You could say it was unfair, and that was true, but the universe didn’t care because it didn’t know what “fair” meant. That was the big problem about being a witch. It was up to you. It was always up to you.

...every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.

Being on a television show and having so many fans is something that I've never experienced before, and it's really neat when they come up to you and are like, 'That storyline is amazing and really spoke to me in my life,' and it's really cool. I really enjoy it.

The trouble with going crazy is that you have to go around making it up to everyone afterwards. It seems they should be making something up to you.

It's very simple: When you're working your hardest, the world opens up to you.

The starting point is always now. The end is up to you.

Most of the reasons people think they can't do something are reasons they've created. Everything you do is up to you. Part of life is realizing that you have much more potential and ability than you'd ever know. However, it is up to you to reach inside, face the fears, and unleash that which really drives you.

To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.

When you’re engaged in what you love to do, it’s like driving in the fast lane. Time flies by and more roads open up to you, alternate routes you may not have even known existed.

Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, "You Stink." And you got to deal with that. It's like being in front of the lions.

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.