Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Al Pacino

Either I act or I die.

Laila Ali

I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

Dorothy Young

She looked so beautiful. I was so moved. I intended to say a prayer, but I forgot.

Sarah Churchwell

'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

Gavin O'Connor

I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.

Betty Wright

I only intended to be married one time. But marriages are made; they don't just happen. It takes two.

Barbara Jordan

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

Trey Parker

Doing a musical is like having a kid. It's out there alive somewhere. It's not like a movie or a TV show where what we intended is what everyone will see. The kid can act out. The kid's going to do what it wants to do.

Mike Jones

I don't think it is right to use the petition system when you have no intention or likelihood of prevailing. That is not what the system was intended for and to misuse it now is reckless.

Carolyn Anderson

We're sort of the soundtrack to these wonderful, wonderful images, ... The subject is the universe, but we interpret that loosely.

Maria Bamford

When I'm up on stage and do a joke, half the people interpret it one way and half of them interpret it the way I want them to.

Rick Parker

We don't have to interpret what it looks like. This is what it is.

Devdutt Pattanaik

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

Gary Jennings

I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The text has disappeared under the interpretation.

Robert Wilson

Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.

Jonathan Brandis

I dont like being told someones interpretation of something that I do.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Yet is was very difficult to seperate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, if someone judges himself, only then is he known as a real judge.

Warren E. Burger

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

Charles Grassley

only want judges who will do their political bidding on the bench, regardless of what is required by the law and the Constitution.

Lord Hailsham

Fortunately, Lord Chancellor, your judges do not appoint the Master of the Rolls. I do.

Don Samuel

Just get rid of judges altogether. Just let the Legislature set the sentences.

Doug Anderson

That could reduce the population by 200 inmates, ... The judges are supposed to come in soon.

Kate Reed

I thought I pulled it together for the the last jump, it was the most pressure I've ever felt. Unfortunately the judges didn't see it that way.

David Frum

Judges in the mould of Scalia and Thomas were the 'no new taxes' pledge of this presidency.

Jaymie Pedigo

Judges can come from the community; they don't have to be scientists.