Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Charles Dickens

We must scrunch or be scrunched.

Alan Parker

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

Alan Rickman

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

Alain Robert

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

Alan Arkin

I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is. I don't want to work for scale anymore. I'm at a point now where, no matter how good something is, I'm not going to kill myself and end up in the hole.

Alan Arkin

I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

Al Sharpton

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

Al Pacino

Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

Charles Holliday

Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

Shinzo Abe

The other side has not responded to any of our requests regarding the abduction issue, so it is highly regrettable.

James Browning

The potential profits are so high there's a win-at-any-cost mentality.

Mark Thompson

The perception is that it's too high end, too futuristic, but I think we will see prices and use models to support it.

John Connaughton

The people who pay the highest income tax are also the most mobile. They simply leave North Carolina.

John Remington

We are always trying to look for unique ideas, and we wanted something new for New York. We thought that hey, it's an island, let's do something on the water...New Yorkers have pretty high expectations.

Marty Natalegawa

We've always been on a high state of alert. The perpetrators of the previous bombings are still very much at large and the risk is still very much with us,

Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Ama Dwimoh

We know who did it. We know what happened. Now we need to hold them accountable - and we will.

Dave Sanchez

We started today in third. We just couldn't hold on to that lead.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Joe Torre

We're in a situation where we can't be thinking about holding our own. We have to make an impact. The only way we can do that is by winning the first game.

Kevin Towers

We're not going to rush him. We're not going to hold him back, either. But I'd like to see him get more innings at the professional level.

Dwane Casey

We always hold out hope. Mathematically we're still in it. Every time we walk out on the floor, we're playing for something and we're playing for improvement.

Monica LeMoine

What the school hoped to do for these kids was to hold them accountable for their actions, which they'd never really had before.

Tyler Brand

We wanted to try and hold them under 15 points in the first half. We got out in the passing lanes, got some steals and were able to get our offense going off that.

Ertharin Cousin

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

Betty Wright

You just have to realize that no matter how delectable that meal looks, there's a chance that you might not get to eat it while it's hot.

Bam Margera

I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

Delta Burke

And sometimes, when you feel low on yourself, that's just when you have to go out there and be photographed or do a scene where you're hot stuff. You're always working on it.

Neil Peart

If I have to travel, I'm going to travel my way and travel in the real world. And I'm going to have conversations every day with people in rest stops and people in gas stations and people in hotels and diners. That nourishes me.

John Gibbons

We're going to give this a go. That's our plan. If somebody is really hot and we're trying to win games, it may come down to that.

Andre Woodson

We're going to give it to the hot hand.

John Hamilton

When we got here on Monday, we rented a hotel and started to get help.

Gina Lombardi

With the light-rail going in right next to us and all the development around, it makes our land a hot spot. You can't really stand in the way of it.

Curt Shaw

We knew what was on the line. The pressure was off after the loss to Hot Springs (Thursday).

Chris Cooper

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left

Lorraine Toussaint

Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I've done is sufficient, and I'm also trusting that I've also left room for magic.

Ryan Holmes

We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.

Adam Allen

When you think of all the teams and we're the only two left in 4A, it's unreal. To be one of those two teams ... it's awesome.

Dennis Hopper

For most of my life I wasn't on the left.

Daniel Handler

When things don't go right, go left

William Cooper

We've got a ton of wood left and we'd like to get rid of it.

Nathan Parsons

I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.

Robin Williams

What's right is what's left when everything is wrong.

Eric Rasmussen

The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.

John Webster

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Elliot Mintz

Janet is merely one of a number of witnesses and there is no allegation whatsoever that Janet has violated any law.

Oscar Wilde

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Lord Salisbury

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

bell hooks

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

Patrick O'Brian

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Martin Broughton

The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,

Raymond Hack

We are proud of the performance of our team in the first leg.

Anthony Chukumba

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

David Hockney

I've realized that I can do performances.

Bob Gunton

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Al Yankovic

So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Softbank's poor performance is especially weighing on sentiment.

H. Hunt

She stays cool. She pulls out the big performance on the big day.

Eric Katzman

When you think of Kraft's portfolio, it's plain vanilla right up the middle.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.

Seth Greenberg

We just have to find a way to make more plays, make more shots. We have to take it over the hump. Plain and simple.

Ann Miller

He was just plain Jim. We always called him Jimmy.

Peter Ustinov

It is of course, reprehensible to steal from others, but plain stupid to steal from yourself

Laurie Colwin

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

Brian Billick

I can do the math. You can't trade sevens for three, plain and simple.

Brian Billick

We've got a lot of work to do, plain and simple.

Robert Rankin

Yes, I have over the years done a lot of the audio books, which are just plain reading.

Bill Nighy

I'm not a royal family watcher.

Christo

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

William Shakespeare

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

Alastair Campbell

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

Alastair Campbell

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

Susie Pelzel

They were grateful. And we were treated with royal southern hospitality.

Christa B. Allen

I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want to play a butt-kicking superhero, like Catwoman.

William Wordsworth

Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense.

Hannah More

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

Beth Moore

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

Al Gore

The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.

Ambrose Bierce

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.

David Platt

The gospel reveals the glory of God. According to God's Word, he is the sovereign Creator of all things.

David Platt

We have nothing to fear, because God is sovereign.

Ted Stevens

This is no way to treat a state, ... We're a sovereign state.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

ALIEN, n. An American sovereign in his probationary state.

David Huang

Taiwan is an independent, sovereign state. Taiwan is not part of China,

Dan Wakefield

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

Baltasar Gracian

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Baltasar Gracian

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.

Chris Faidley

I know how to say 'faster' and 'defend' in Bosnian, Spanish and Creole.

Oscar Wilde

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Charles Churchill

Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.

Bob Beauprez

Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne.

Christopher Love

I would rather be a preacher in a pulpit than a prince on a throne

Honore de Balzac

La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

Francis Quarles

Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne.

John Milton

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

Napoleon Bonaparte

An empty throne always tempts me.

Lord Byron

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse borne away with every breath! Misplaced upon the throne misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be let it end.

Vaclav Havel

Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

Andy Jones

Yes. As a non-smoker, I think it's very unfair that smokers go off and have a break, when I just can't.

Sven Eriksson

No one is untouchable, it would be unfair to say that.

Dean Ryan

It is unfair for him and us that he comes in on a one-off.

Mike Keenan

They were put in a position, in my opinion, that was unfair to them,

Hillary Clinton

We need fair rules of the road, so big corporations can't use their power to gain unfair advantages.

Chris Rock

Yeah, it's unfair that you can get judged by something you didn't do, but it's also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn't work for.

Neil Gaiman

It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is

John O'Hara

I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive....

Jon Kyl

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.