Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Nolte

Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent is different, so they are used to hearing different pitches. In America, you gotta travel maybe 10 states before you can really hear a difference.

Keith Stanfield

We used to do sock puppet shows for my auntie back in the day. Me and my friends would do accents of Englishmen, and we would sip tea and act like we were rich in front of the family, and they thought it was just hilarious, the level of perception that we had about things that we'd never experienced.

Nick Park

He was concerned about how the British accents would translate, and sometimes we rerecorded lines to make things clearer,

Chuck Inglish

Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation.

Ben Barnes

I've actually, very rarely have I worked in my own voice. I've played, I think, Russian, American, Northern from the North of England. All sorts of different accents I've worked in.

Toks Olagundoye

Accents are very easy for me. With me, it's clothing and makeup and hair and all that stuff that inform how the character moves and feels.

Nick Park

When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out.

Jackie Earle Haley

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

Al Jarreau

Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people danced to? Jazz has the dynamic thing. I don't think you have to be playing only Charlie Parker licks on your horn or whatever the new version of that is.

Glynis Johns

Relatives cannot help you in the studios," she says. "You stand or fall by your own efforts.

Mary Wittenberg

Our races are to our sport what Wimbledon, the US and French Opens are to tennis and the Masters, U.S. British Open and PGA championship are to golf.

Tom Baker

ordinary British folk: what is them, who do they and why?

Lee Raymond

Our movie also received offers from French, British and Japanese distribution companies.

Julian Glover

Star Wars was not a very big part but I enjoyed doing it and I get more fan mail for that than anything else I've ever done. It's quite extraordinary, it comes in every day, unbelievable.

Mick Fleetwood

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

Shinya Yamada

Pilkington has been in the glass business much longer than Nippon Sheet Glass and they have pride as a British firm, and it would be very difficult for Nippon Sheet Glass to control it.

Shinya Yamada

Pilkington has been in the glass business much longer than Nippon Sheet Glass, and they have pride as a British firm, and it would be very difficult for Nippon Sheet Glass to control it.

Jeremy Spencer

Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I like their depth and the way they look beyond the surface of things.

Barbara Ryan

Recent results provide clear evidence of the turnaround at Schering-Plough and the positive momentum of the cholesterol joint venture.

Bart Melek

Recent oil and fuel inventory trends are clearly demonstrating that the oil industry is no longer in crisis mode and that energy prices are likely to continue to soften.

Dipen Sanghavi

Reliance Industries has clearly led the rise today, and investors are confident because of the fund flows into the market.

Adam Ereli

President Chen's assurances were quite clear that the NUC has not been abolished.

Stephen Greene

Our research shows that event information consistently ranks as one of the top three requests by visitors to our Web site. People clearly want to know all their options as they map out their vacation plans.

John Skipper

Our research and the ratings clearly suggest that a daily show may have been too much.

Jack Straw

Our position in terms of paying ransoms has been very clear and consistent. The United Kingdom does not pay ransoms.

Christopher Hill

Our position has been very clear on this. North Korea needs to get out of the nuclear business.

Scott Paluch

Parse and Thomas are clearly as good of a one-two combination as there is throughout the country. But on the other side of the ice we have a pretty good combination of our own.

Bob McLaughlin

Regardless of the numbers, everyone is held accountable for every single child.

Mark Blondin

Our members spoke out and held the line.

Avi Cover

People in policy positions need to be held accountable. We're waiting to see more acknowledgement of those mistakes.

Bill Riley

Our pitching has to come through. It hasn't held up.

Stephen Ames

Overall I held it together. I just couldn't make enough birdies.

Gary Turcott

Our big kids played solid. I don't know if anybody's held them (Argos) to 71 points.

Tracy Egeland

I think they held up pretty well. We had a lot of skating, a lot of skill work. I think they did pretty good.

Rob Moore

That's what impressed me the most. He got in those situations and rose to the occasion. He held his own.

Donald Bough

That's been our trademark. We held on. Antilles had the momentum.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Gary Lewis

Most of the riders up there are locals,

Leslie Peterson

We live together. We ride together. It's our whole life.

Laura Bush

I think it's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous comment, that's what I think.

Kyle Wright

It is kind of a make-it-or-break-it game. There is a lot riding on it.

Omar Vizquel

I think if I could have come up cleanly it would have been the same result, because it didn't take me too much to get rid of the ball.

Carlos Chitty

I could talk to him. He would ride in my car. We were really buddies.

James Blake

I am just going to try riding the wave until I wake up.

Wayne Lawson

He wanted to ride Vexing because he thought she could win.

Laura Melisi

He couldn't get her out of his life. She wouldn't leave. She wanted everything, and he didn't know how to get rid of her because of her threats.

Adam McKay

A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.

Christian Cooke

I never want to be seen in my boxer shorts ever again.

Rafael Nadal

I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

Jim Tutwiler

I have a Rembrandt etching. I have a Renoir etching, and we've already sold two Renoir etchings at this show.

Terry Davis

He was a soldier of justice, which is indispensable to our freedom, stability and peace.

Syed Ahmed

He not only sold us a building, he sold us the town.

Channing Tatum

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

Blaise Pascal

If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

Benito Mussolini

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

Calvin Coolidge

Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.

Carl von Clausewitz

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I don't go out with strangers," I said. "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.

Bill Bryson

Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Grown ups are certainly very strange.

John Abraham

I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me.

Steve Walsh

I think it is so strange it has to be real.

Willie Morris

He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.

Alain de Botton

It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

Earl Nightingale

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts

Edward Norton

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

Davis III

We got to watch a lot of their match. We suggested that we go around them, but that didn't go over real well.

Joseph Tate

I never once suggested that she should not testify. It was just the opposite. I told Mr. Abrams that the waiver was voluntary.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

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.

Axl Rose

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived.

Paul Lieberstein

I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.

Hank Azaria

I have no new voices - they've all been used.

Janet Weiss

You don't hear it on the radio. There's something about the voices in Sleater-Kinney that's a little too challenging to ever be on the inside.

Richard LaGravenese

I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head!

Rick Springfield

Young female voices are the loudest voices of all with the fans.