Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Mann

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Berkeley Breathed

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Bill Budge

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

Arthur Ashe

If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

Bertrand Russell

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

Ben Gazzara

some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

Alan Coren

Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.

Aaron Copland

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Brett Somers

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

Carrie Fisher

Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.

Carrie Fisher

Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.

Ashton Kutcher

I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.

Ajay Naidu

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

Ayelet Zurer

Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.

Benjamin Bratt

I find that most of us actors can't stand ourselves in any form.

Carice van Houten

I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.

Catherine McCormack

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

Catherine Keener

I know many great actors who have small heads.

Bijou Phillips

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

Bill Hicks

I don't get along with anything, I really don't...I'm, I'm, maybe I'm just a, you know, incredibly tasteful human being.

Michio Kaku

Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Jason Silva

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

Mary Roach

I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.

Erich Roeckner

Humans have had a large one-of-a-kind influence on the climate.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.