Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judith Jamison

I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.

Spoken Reasons

I went to L.A. and got an acting coach for one day. Then I went in to audition and I smashed it. You have to take risks, and one thing I know about people: your presence is everything.

Megan Park

I think the most important thing is you have to learn to love auditioning, which I have definitely learned to love. It's going to be a huge part of your career, even if you're right at the top. You're still going to have to audition sometimes, and if you don't learn to love that, that's such a big part of what you're job's going to be.

Giovanni Ribisi

I think Steven Spielberg has first movies! Martin Scorsese has first movies. I don't just jump into something. I like the whole audition process.

Dave Bautista

Just getting auditions was rough. But also just learning how to act - when I did my first role, in a film I did which was a favour to a friend, I realised I was really bad at it.

Mircea Monroe

I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie 'Cellular.' I did, and I got the part. It actually makes me sick to tell that story because it's obnoxious.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

I went out on auditions because I didn't know if I was coming back on '24,' and then my pilot got picked up, so I was in London for nine weeks.

Joan Chen

I went on auditions for a movie called Year of the Dragon. I was pretty much fresh off the boat, and I had a little baby fat on me. I was a cute - really cute 22-year-old.

Elizabeth Banks

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.

Dan Hill

I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability.

Yossi Alpher

He was able to project charisma and give people a sense of security and stability at a very difficult time.

Jon Voight

He had great charisma and he had great love for people in general, and a great regard for young people, ... He had real faith and real fervor, and he was a man of God. He did some great things, some controversial things.

Jim Rees

He had a charisma, and charisma is not just the way the face looked. It's how he moved, how he stood.

Frank Carroll

He grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia, where the greatest male dancers of all time have come out of. He has a way of moving and charisma about him that no one else can achieve.

Ed Sarpolus

Hendrix doesn't have the charisma the mayor has, and that's key. But the mayor doesn't have the trust right now. If he can regain the trust of the people, then he can close the gap. Detroit doesn't generally like kicking out incumbents.

Carine Roitfeld

Let the others have beauty. I've got the charisma.

The Beatles

with such wit, perception, insight, charm, cleverness and charisma

Shirley Eaton

The reason why people are huge stars is nothing to do with acting. It's the magic. Charisma is a word that's used too often; it's something special, and it's what makes stars. It's luck, and basically, it's genes.

Howard Davidowitz

Is Wal-Mart going after the Hispanic and African-American consumers? Absolutely. They're a significant percentage of Wal-Mart shoppers,

Alfredo Alonso

Hispanics tend to use radio very frequently. They spend longer listening to radio. The Hispanic population is very brand-loyal, and once they identify with a radio station, they tend to stick with that station.

Frank Cruz

He was a true pioneer of Hispanic media here in Los Angeles. And he was a gutsy cameraman.

Andrew Greeley

One Hispanic woman... was telling me about her religion, and all she was talking about were the parties, the festivals.

David Ware

We've never had Hispanic day laborer sites. That's a totally new phenomenon.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Ozzie is the Hispanic Jackie Mason. If you look at him in that light, you don't worry about anything he says.

Bob Yevak

White, black, Hispanic we should all be in one league playing as a team together.

Ted Cruz

There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.

Raul Rodriguez

Why tackle the Hispanic people only? That is not fair. That is not right. That is not justice.

Max von Essen

'La Vie en Rose' is just about my favorite movie. Marion Cotillard, I'm so desperately obsessed with her work.

Marion Bartoli

I think if people ask, 'How is Marion Bartoli?', they will always respond, 'She's a nice person.' That's what I'm most proud of.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I think Zelda 64 is utilizing about 90 percent of the N64 potential. When we made Mario 64 we were simply utilizing 60 to 70 percent. So we have come a long way I believe.

Mario Balotelli

What is important for me is that the people who know me for real know Mario how he really is. People who don't know me, they read newspapers and they watch TV. TV is made to give a lot of opinions... so I can't show the real Mario to everybody.

Roy Johnson

Marion can be our Citadel and VMI if we do it right.

Dan Gurney

Mario (Andretti) was within two seconds of me for the whole race, ... We had a stellar cast.

Darryl Tapp

I'm sure Mario probably is chomping at the bit. I would be, too.

Gary Arthur

I don't know how to put this into words. In 16 years of working in Triple-A baseball, Mario was right at the top. There was just something about him.

Ivan Ljubicic

It was a strange feeling, for Mario and me.

B. B. King

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer

Daniel Gomez

He was a singer and they were loud.

Mitch Leigh

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

Dave Mustaine

I'm not a great singer

Rose Rosetree

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

Bjork

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

Donald Fagen

Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.

Donald Fagen

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

Debbie Harry

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

Mike Leinbach

I'm here to tell you that it really is truly better.

Herbie Hancock

I was trying to make something truly collaborative,

August Wilson

I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.

Albert Schweitzer

Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.

Carrie Fisher

I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

Craig Bruce

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

Chris Hemsworth

I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.

H. Hunt

We are now well and truly in the post-Maui era.

Barbara Green

Those who complained truly feel that they are discriminated against, they truly feel that way.

John Hull

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

Wilson Alvarez

I'm here trying to do it one more time. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my wife. I'm doing it for my teammates. So they can all say you've still got it.

Bebe Neuwirth

Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.

Beck

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

Beck

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.

B. B. King

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

Billy Corgan

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

Billy Corgan

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

Billy Corgan

In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they can use and exploit, often times lazily. They have no sense of the tradition, they have no sense of honor about those who came before and charted the path.

Bill Hicks

The Voice of Reason is in us all...and everyone can recognize it because it makes sense and everyone benefits from it equally.

Mike Judge

I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.

John Nash

I thought of the voices as... something a little different from aliens. I thought of them more like angels... It's really my subconscious talking, it was really that... I know that now.

William Wilberforce

No matter how loud you shout, you will not drown out the voice of the people!

Carl Jung

If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.

Two Chainz

I can say sincerely, don't take your voice for granted. It is truly what makes us all equal.

Chris Isaak

He was really cool, ... We really connected. His voice just aches.

Al Gore

It's an important point, and every little bit helps not least because those who make those kinds of changes are more likely to make their voices heard as citizens. But the ultimate solutions are going to come through policies.