Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Rossellini

I became an actress way into my 30s because I thought that I had to find my own way, and that's why I worked so much in modelling, until I realised that the differences between acting and modelling weren't that great. I always say that modelling is a little bit like being a silent actress.

Isabella Rossellini

Once I realised that my job as a model was to emote in front of the camera, I thought, 'Well now, I just have to add words, and I can do films.' But also, my success as a model made me more confident about becoming an actress because, just in case I failed, I thought, 'Well, you know, if I failed as an actress, I can do another job.'

Kirsten Dunst

Madonna is my role model she's such a powerful woman. I love Gwenyth Paltrow, she's an actress I aspire to be like. And, of course, my mom. She drove me from New Jersey to New York every day for commercials so I could get where I am today.

Lee Remick

Many times as an actress I feel crazy, yet the truth is that I would feel far more crazy if I were not an actress.

Robert C. Merton

One week before my 17th birthday, I had a blind date with June Rose, a television actress on network soap operas, a model, and a regular on the popular Dick Clark's Saturday night 'American Bandstand' show from New York. We were married five years later, one week after my graduation from Columbia.

Talulah Riley

I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.

Chloe Sevigny

For some reason the public has embraced me as a fashion icon, and I feel like it has diminished me as an actress. Or I don't get as much recognition as an actress -- and that upsets me.

Greg Harrison

From our first meeting I was very impressed by her. She clearly had more potential as a dramatic actress than one would think, given her comedic performance on Friends .

Sherri Saum

I worked on this Showtime series called 'Beggars and Choosers,' this was like 2000, and Bea Arthur guest-starred on our show. I always loved 'The Golden Girls,' and thought she was a supreme comedy actress, supreme actress period.

Mallory Ortberg

One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.

Horace Walpole

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Jean Bruyere

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

Dave Foley

Maybe we will, and we'll take the entire comedy industry with us.

Joe Keenan

One hit can get the audience's faith back that a comedy can be good,

Arthur Marx

(My father) he would be surprised to know he was still popular today, ... He told me, when he was quitting the Marx Brothers, (that) their kind of comedy was old-fashioned.

Tom Stoppard

One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.

Dick Van Dyke

There aren't many pratfalls in comedy anymore.

Diane Cilento

I did comedy Francaise acting. When I was in a play with Michael Redgrave, I learnt to take the stage and have control of what I was doing.

W. Hull

Mandy... that's my favorite song of all time. Man, oh, man.

Bruce Bowen

Severna Park is the favorite this year and next year. They're four top players are all juniors.

Kirsten Dunst

May favorite food at the moment is Pasta, "with tons of shaved Parmesan on the side. Not crumbly but like the hunks, you know what I mean...when you get the thin slices.

Brian McBride

My favorite sports are soccer, hockey and volleyball.

Dedrick L.

My favorite singer? I'd have to say A'Leithia Sweeting.

Frank Darabont

My favorite was the Green Mile parody in Mad Magazine.

Selenis Leyva

My favorite thing is just sitting in a makeup chair and letting makeup artists do their thing.

Jeremy Smith

My favorite thing is hitting. Maybe hitting a home run.

Angie Stone

My favorite thing about L.A. is the sunny breezes that mimic the mindset of the energy in the people.

Peter R. Grant

Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.

Standard Life

There are different mortality rates for males and females, so females get a higher sum assured.

Action Bronson

When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.

Peter Sorensen

to mate with females who would waste their reproductive potential.

William Shakespeare

Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad

Gayle Forman

I don't have a lot of men in my life. I'm married, but I have daughters. I'm surrounded by a lot of females in my world.

Reggie Jackson

We have a lot of females who volunteer as a coach. Our girls who play see that.

Nancy Mathews

They always come back and the females never leave, so it is unlikely they are contributing to large-scale transmission of CWD. A big key for understanding transmission is young bucks. They are the only segment of the population that makes permanent movement out of their home ranges.

George Morehouse

These stations are occupied with personnel 24 hours a day, and if you have mixed genders on the force, you can see where things could get crowded. It's one thing when you have only guys in a station, but when males and females are in the same structure, it can get dicey.

Seth Landau

Much like I want 'Take Out' to be one of the funniest things people have seen I want this movie to be one of the scariest.

Keith Jones

one of the funniest people you ever met.

Sean Hayes

I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television.

Akiva Schaffer

You learn, even at 'S.N.L.,' that the funniest scripts a lot of the time were written with the actor, because they know what makes people laugh. It's always going to be better if they own it.

Roly Keating

Harry was a truly independent spirit and one of the funniest people I've ever known,

Charles Keating

Robin Williams, by the way, is the most consummately skilled actor, and one of the funniest people I've ever encountered.

George Bernard Shaw

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

My way of joking is telling the truth; that is the funniest joke in the world

Julane Sullivan

Mary is one of the funniest women I have met.

Richard Rogers

I love my job. What would I retire to?

Robin Chase

I would love to have had much more money so that I could be a philanthropist.

Robert Palmer

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

Robert Osborne

I love to be able to meet people who are successful, and I love them not because they're successful, but usually people who are successful have qualities that make them interesting to be around.

Malcolm McDowell

I've tried it all. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

Malin Akerman

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

Albert Schweitzer

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

Albert Schweitzer

Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Scott Moody

Like I have to start from scratch, I don't have anything.

David Collins

One way to start all over is to find a young woman and start a family.

John Beilein

Now we just go back and teach. We start over.

Joan Van Ark

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Chris Elliott

But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.

Chris Farley

I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But they do. It's still life on life's terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

Chris Evans

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal.

Charles Spurgeon

Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost!

Charles Spurgeon

You may fear that the Lord has passed you by, but it is not so: he who counts the stars, and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting his own children. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature he ever made, or the only saint he ever loved. Approach him and be at peace.

Neil MacGregor

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

Nancy Wilson

We've done so many versions of this song.

Paul Rudd

We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,

Theresa Klein

But there is only one version of the truth, right?

Rene Russo

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.

Jon Corzine

If you want a long version of the inaugural address, come on Tuesday.

Mark Lewis

The new CMC version removes the need for an administrator to visit each site.

Joyce Banda

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

Audrey Hepburn

My look is attainable. Women can look like

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it.

Chris Evans

What does a woman want? More.

Tucker Max

Women always want the guy that other women want.

Tina Brown

I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries.

Democritus

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

Denis Diderot

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

Deborra-Lee Furness

As adult women, we're better able to protect ourselves emotionally. We understand we don't need to spend time with people who don't make us feel good. We recognise that some people have bad energy and we know we don't want that in our lives. Instead, we choose to spend time with people who love us and treat us well and make us happy. There's no doubt that shows on your face.