Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Wilkinson

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

Tom Wilkinson

When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.

Tom Wilkinson

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

Tom Wilkinson

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

Tom Wilkinson

Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

Tom Wilkinson

It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

Tom Wilkinson

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

Tom Wilkinson

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

Tom Wilkinson

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

Gary North

Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.

Christine Martin

Pluto is a pit bull, and he must've been very well-trained at some point, but he had just lost everything. He didn't have the commands anymore.

Muhammad Yunus

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.

Monica Johnson

Young people are not immune to following God's commands concerning discipline.

Mike Rizzo

You can tell right now that he commands the position of shortstop. He's going to be a solid shortstop who can really hit. If you get J.D. Drew 's production when he's healthy, with a solid defensive shortstop, you've got an All-Star.

Francis Herbert Hedge

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Mary Antin

The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.

Sathya Baba

We can be successful leaders only if we are disciplined followers, who do not issue commands to others but rather set an example of service in our actions.

Michael Strahan

He showed a lot of poise. He commands the huddle and he commands the offense.

Mark Langan

This ranks up there with the worst I've seen. There (were) feces throughout the house, urine-stained carpets, urine-stained sheets, trash throughout the house.

Bill Castle

We've got a bulls-eye on us. I think we're ranked because of tradition and our past. Everyone comes after you.

Jonny Moroni

To be ranked sixth internationally our first time out was pretty great.

Tom Perkins

If that happened, it would rank right up there with anything else I've done in my career.

Sean Fleming

He is the type of wrestler who can be ranked in the state and do some big things in tournaments.

Zac Sandvig

To come up here and shut out a ranked team like this is really something.

Rodney Tention

Give them credit. They compete. That's why they're ranked No. 5 (now 4). They toughened up when they got down.

George Crooks

Marysville is ranked in the state and they have seven state qualifiers back. That's going to be a tough one.

Bill Richards

Northwestern is always very good. They are ranked 51st in the nation.

Kenny Smith

We recommend you do it from a ladder, it's safer.

Sam Claflin

Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.

Elias Hicks

To this light, then, would I recommend all, with mine own soul, - to this sure way of salvation.

Helen Oyeyemi

I can recommend wearing blue mascara whilst writing. I'm telling you, it really adds something.

Johannes Laitenberger

It is not up to us to recommend anything to the press.

Marcia Cross

I think she would be a very interesting patient. I'd recommend she come three times a week.

Mike Hohensee

We'll be sure to recommend him when the time comes.

Jane Harman

There's a NIMBY issue, ... We have to solve that before we recommend nuclear.

Mike Hammond

We don't recommend just everybody. We don't want to be a rubber stamp.

Charles Dickens

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

Charles Caleb Colton

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

Sergio Perez

Pastor is a driver who doesn't respect other drivers.

Dave Barry

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

C. Wright Mills

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

Bryan Singer

What we call evil doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

Cary Grant

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Carole King

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

Callie Khouri

I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.