Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darby Stanchfield

When I moved to Los Angeles, I was straight out of grad school, and I didn't have a single credit to my name. I knew one person in town - another actor whose name is John Billingsley. I just had to audition and audition and audition. I was plugging away for 15 years. So I earned my stripes!

Shanley Caswell

Sometimes you go into an audition and you'll do what you think the character is, and then if they agree, then it's awesome and you'll book it maybe, and you'll live happily ever after. But sometimes they don't agree.

Aasif Mandvi

They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.

Aasif Mandvi

One of the first auditions I had in New York was for a commercial where I had to go in and audition to be a snake charmer... It was either some bank commercial or something where they wanted a guy charming a snake... I remember they wanted to know if I actually knew how to snake charm.

Tom Lenk

It's interesting - years ago, I had such bad stage fright during musical theater auditions that I just gave up. And now I'm on Broadway.

Todrick Hall

When I was 20 years old, my mom flew me for my first Broadway audition for 'The Color Purple,' and I only found out about it because I knew that Fantasia was in it, and so I went online to ActorsEquity.com. I was not a part of the union, but I flew there for the audition, and the next week I made my Broadway debut!

Gary Sinise

The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.

Eric Christian Olsen

I was doing auditions and meetings during the day and going to culinary school at night. And then 'NCIS' happened. So I dropped out of culinary school.

Al Pacino

Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.

Kevin Wright

When you run the option, the idea is to get going downhill right now and Dexter does an unbelievable job at that. He's a player who has the potential to score on every play.

Edward Gibbon

But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest.

Rick Rodriguez

If we lose that game, it's Seminole going to the playoffs and not us. Dexter willed us to a victory in that game because he knew we had to win it. That's what I'll always remember.

Patrick McMahon

It would not be hard to come up with the projects to equal the $500,000. An estimate for the Dexter Plaza from a few years back was $150,000. In addition, the train station could easily reach $200,000, just in soft funds alone.

Gavin Miller

Holy cow; that's a big deal. That's the first time ever for Dexter to be ranked No. 1 in the poll. That is just a really big honor, because even last year we were never No. 1.

Rick Rodriguez

get in front of someone and Dexter will do the rest.

Rick Rodriguez

I took Dexter out in the fourth quarter. Better to be safe than sorry.

George Burley

I'm hoping Paul stays fit, otherwise we may have to use Dexter again.

Jeff Lindsay

I wanted Dexter to have a family that could love him and understand him.

Greg Allgood

We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works for them.

Ted Cruz

And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

Thulasiraj Ravilla

A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see.

Louie Schwartzberg

The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It's very heavenly.

Ewan McGregor

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Tim Hogan

We've got fines accumulating at $1 million a day. The pressure is on to resolve this problem.

Harold Jones

What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.

Stephen F. Lynch

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

Jennifer Hampton

She is going to make her first million by the time she is 20,

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Kris Kristofferson

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Kristin Gore

I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Benny Hill

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Neve McIntosh

I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

C. S. Lewis

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair

Kent Kersten

We have some bruises and we may have one or two wrestlers out. We were injury-free when we won the duals championship in 2003. It's not the same this year.

Abby Wambach

I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.

Diane von Furstenberg

We all have a Wonder Woman inside us.

Bryce Courtenay

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

Elizabeth Wilson

It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

E. B. White

We've won here now so we don't have to worry about the 15-year thing.