Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miranda Otto

When I did A Doll's House I felt like I learnt so much, ... That's another reason to do this, I wanted to push myself and see what else I could learn from doing it. Because Robyn's an actress as well, I feel like I learn a lot of technique and things from her.

Sharon Stone

When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long.

Sarah Steele

I think I'm a character actress at heart, and I think my work is character work for the most part. I'm not the lead of any films - which is not to say that I wouldn't ever want to be; it is just to say that hasn't been my path.

Tahyna Tozzi

I was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm an incredibly insecure person, and knowing that I had to go on set in next to nothing, it scared me, but at the same time, I knew it would be a challenge to open me up, not only as an actress but as a person.

Cesar Romero

I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.

Catherine Deneuve

I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.

Catherine Deneuve

I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.

Catherine Deneuve

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

Elizabeth Wilson

I had no desire to be a star. I wanted to be a character actress and be able to do all kinds of parts and work on a lot of things. That was my unconscious choice. I wanted to be an undercover actress.

Carl Andre

I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets.

Carl Andre

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

Carl Andre

Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?

Carl Andre

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

Mike Dowell

We have a sportswriter's award that we'd like you to give to one artist for one piece of art. It doesn't have to be a category winner or best of show winner, anything you like. You pick it.

Sangram Majumdar

When you see a show like this, I think it will make you care a lot more about art. It might make someone go start painting, inspire them to learn about an artist or start buying art.

Jose Gonzalez

When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.

Agnes de Mille

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

Vince Paul

There are a lot of different types of people who each have their own rites and rituals. The show is actually quite a fusion of all of those different styles.

George Shaheen

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Taylor Wilson

I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.

Gary Stibel

Procter did overpay for what was there, but not for what they bought. Give them a month and see what Fusion can do.

John Wookey

There's a path to Fusion applications. But you need to take that step.

William Stephens

That's just a sound bite. The fusion ticket is working very well.

Josh Greenbaum

For Phillips to say they are halfway to Fusion is over the top.

Jean Monnet

The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.

Jeremy Rifkin

The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.

Andre Previn

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Agnes Repplier

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

Charlie Byrd

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

Charlie Byrd

I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that.

Charlie Byrd

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

Charlie Byrd

The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so much as the music itself. But the guitar is the vehicle I use. It's how I express myself. As for the emotional side, music takes up where language leaves off. To try and verbalize what music says, emotionally and spiritually, is futile. Let me put it this way, Louis Armstrong once said if you've got to ask, you'll never know.

Charlie Byrd

Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group-carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does.

Charlie Byrd

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Bryan Adams

I moonlight as a singer.

Jasmine Guy

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.

Brad Paisley

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

Brad Delson

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

Boz Scaggs

I'm not a jazz singer.

Charisma Carpenter

No, I'm a horrible singer, I'm awful.

Eddie Marsan

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

Rose Rosetree

She is a talker and a thinker more than a singer or performer. And she has an unusually strong sense of humor.

Bryan Adams

I moonlight as a singer.

Jasmine Guy

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.

Brad Paisley

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

Brad Delson

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

Boz Scaggs

I'm not a jazz singer.

Charisma Carpenter

No, I'm a horrible singer, I'm awful.

Eddie Marsan

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Longing alone is singer to the lute.