Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

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

Alan Rickman

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

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.

Al Pacino

Either I act or I die.

Al Pacino

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

Al Pacino

It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

Al Pacino

A lot of acting is private time.

Chow Yun-Fat

An actor is only merchandise.

Devon Werkheiser

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

Kathleen Blanco

We are praying that the hurricane dissipates or that it weakens. This state can barely stand what happened to it.

Brene Brown

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either.

Edan Lepucki

I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?

Nick Bosnic

We were in a slump and out of sync because of the injuries. The win was important because were finally starting to get healthy. We've barely had enough players to conduct a practice. Now it's just a matter of getting our timing back and working on a little conditioning.

Helio Castroneves

Unfortunately, I think we made the wrong choice on our race setup, and the Marlboro Team Penske car had a tremendous push in Turns 3 and 4. Those corners were my biggest problem. I could barely touch the throttle going through there. The team made front wing adjustments on both of our pits stops, but it didn't really help. All considering, I'm pretty happy with a fourth-place finish.

J. M. Roberts

We're barely meeting the core in rural Utah.

Pam Davis

We're barely keeping up with the growth in Naperville and the surrounding communities, ... We need more beds.

Tom Halbmaier

We're barely getting beat, just one or two possessions away from winning. We've played good basketball. But we haven't played consistent.

Paul Thomson

Three years ago, I used to go out a lot and I used to drink quite a lot. On a Sunday night, I'd think, 'Right, I have to sign on on Thursday, and I can't forget that' and now, into the space of one day, I'm cramming in what then I would have done in two weeks. I can barely remember my old life now.

Jedd Gould

We want to try to bring services to our community that would not otherwise be here.

Don Reynolds

We want to take the concept as big as we can. To really ramp the company up and roll it out the way we want to, we really wanted to take some time and bring somebody in of this caliber.

Ellie Radke

We knew they were bringing down some fan buses. But we didn't think there would be that many.

Steve Fisk

We knew they'd bring a lot of pressure, and we had to come and handle it.

E. O. Wilson

We know where we stand and where we are. Why bring it up? It's the past. That happened last year.

Tony Pulis

We know where the frailties within the squad are. It's all about being given the opportunity to try and improve the squad. Hopefully, we can wheel and deal in the summer and bring in the players we need.

Jeff Jillson

We know we have to play better at home, but overall we need to play better. We're going on a long road trip next week, and these two games at home are very important. We have to defend our home ice and bring a lot of energy to these two games.

Leroy Hill

We know we have to bring everything. Put our big-boy pads on and bring him down.

Steve Carroll

We know every team's out to get us. We have a target on our chest. Every team is trying to get revenge on us. We know that, now that we're in league, everybody's bringing their A game.

Kevin Krone

We want to thank our Customers for their continued excitement about DING! since its introduction last February. Thanks to our hardworking Employees, fare sales were revolutionized with the creation of DING!

Hilary Clinton

Very calmly, we went out to the sidewalk in front of our office and continued our discussion.

Justice Theodore

The potential danger to the continued existence of the union rests with the adjudication of these fines.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The perfect man in Eden therefore was rich, and such riches he might have possessed forever had he continued obedient to his Creator.

Nick Griffin

We are pleased to see continued growth in the Hawaii financial services industry.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to say that we are off to a good start in 2006 with continued strong growth in software and product revenues for the first quarter.

Hoshiyar Zebari

We are at a crucial period now and we need their continued engagement.

Martin Van Buren

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Chogyam Trungpa

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

Ian Logan

We know what to expect. We have a lot of experience and our rookies are quickly learning the ropes. This really could be our year, but our mindset is to take every game at a time and not look past any team.

Mario Little

We know what a tough loss was (versus Simeon). It gave us experience and confidence. This time of year, it's all about mental toughness.

Raymond Cruz

When I was a kid, they bussed us down to a screening of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in an old theater, and it was just a great experience.

Lukas Haas

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.

Lorraine Toussaint

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences

Mike Cisco

We've all had experience to this point, which has been good.

Nicholas Negroponte

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

Jordan Spieth

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Alexa Vega

I've been through a marriage, and I'm still very fond of my ex-husband; but if I've learned anything, it's that relationships are about compromise.

Michael Brown

We've been able to put those things we've learned in the past in place and save many more structures,

Dave Nutting

We're a young team and I think we learned a valuable lesson. And we'll know what it takes to win in the playoffs next year. I couldn't be prouder of the guys.

Melissa Leo

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.

Tracy Morgan

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

Twyla Tharp

I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.

Marvin Hamlisch

learned about listening to yourself. You know the punch line but it has to seem as if you're going to find it.

David Strathairn

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

Bob Kane

Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.

Bobby Darin

I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25

Dick Trickle

Not yet, when I'm gone I'll be a legend, right now I'm just very good at what I do.

Coco Chanel

The right ingredients can create a legend.

Gary Neville

He'll always be one of the legends of Manchester United,

Albert Einstein

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

Dan Brown

Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.

Brenda Jones

We like to have a mix of the legends and the younger acts.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Al Ries

The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

Akon

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

Mike Butters

We want to see who we're going to keep around next season.

Chris Cooper

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

John Smedley

We know what we're doing now and we're going to take it to the next level.

Djuna Barnes

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

Dhani Jones

Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

Steve Alford

We've already got three up on the board.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Anton Chekhov

When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

Billy Sunday

Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.