Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Claflin

In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who are very well trained in the basics of acting because they need to get it right the first time - you can't have second or third takes when you're in front of a live audience, unlike in film.

Noah Hawley

In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the end of the movie 'Fargo,' when Bill Macy is arrested, Marge is nowhere to be found because it's a different jurisdiction, and she wouldn't be there. I took that to heart.

In an environment providing real-time information to media, any security incident, triggered with malicious intent or not, can have disastrous consequences. For a highly visible event like the Olympic Games, the challenge of IT security is not only to prevent unauthorized people from accessing the systems, but to control the activity of authorized people inside the games' network.

Michael Copps

In a sense, these mergers can also be seen as an epitaph for the competition that many of us thought we would enjoy as a result of the Telecommunications Act of 1996,

In Aruba, I don't know what the situation is there, but it was interesting that these young men could tell the story, and that it was believable ... and that people did act on the story that they were telling,

Joaquin Phoenix

I'm terrible at metaphors or analogies. I don't know the difference, actually, ... For me, acting is like your dad teaching you to ride a bicycle. You feel totally vulnerable at first. You imagine yourself getting hurt, and the only thing that prevents you from crashing is your dad is running after you, holding on to the back of your seat. You keep looking over your shoulder at him, and he's going, 'You're doing it, kid.' And then, all of a sudden, you're, like, 'Why are you still holding on, Dad? Let go.'

Max von Essen

I'm the youngest of four, and they were all very into sports. I was the first one to express an interest in the arts. I took piano lessons and singing lessons, acting lessons. So it was all new to them, but my parents were great.

Sean Flynn

I'm not surprised by actions the county has taken. I have to do what I have to do to protect my family and I am consulting my attorney, but I hope we can resolve this without lengthy litigation.

I'm not sure we as a community are spending the kind of resources we need. The public sector needs to step forward. And I think that's a good use of public dollars because this activity creates jobs.

Emeka Okafor

I'm obviously disappointed. The player in me, the competitor in me wants to be out there with my teammates fighting hard and out there having fun playing ball in front of our fans. But the situation is what the situation is. You have to act accordingly.

Chelsea Peretti

I'm obsessed with nature and living in the wild, which I just think is crazy. Imagine if a bear attacked you! That's an actual possible way you could die.

I'm now looking at the details of the action plan; it's good they have one. It's something companies have been pressing them to do for a long time.

I'm happy the governor acted in a timely fashion in naming the members. Now we can get to work.

I'm having a lot of fun with the fight scene because Emily and I are friends. I'm lucky to be doing that with such a good actress because Emily makes me stay in character. Once we start, we don't break character.

Lupita Nyong'o

I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on my life, if acting hadn't been a part of it, I would hate myself.

Steve Spurrier

I'll cross that bridge if it comes to that, ... The thing I've tried to do all this year is not be lingering around, acting like I'm waiting for another guy's job. I don't believe that's the right way to do it. But now that he doesn't have a job, I guess there will be some discussion. We'll see what happens.

Jessica Simpson

I'll be playing this all-American celebrity actress who everybody loves, but she can't get the Oscar-winning drama roles - she thinks the roles she gets are cheesy. She ends up joining the army!

I like to travel. I went all over, to Tokyo, London and Paris. I think Paris is my new favorite city. But acting is my passion. I can't wait to get back to it.

Jeff Ross

In the last couple of years, there has definitely been an increase in the number of wage-and-hour actions brought on behalf of computer related employees.

In the four years since the PATRIOT Act's enactment, a broad range of Americans have petitioned their state and local governments to protect them from unwarranted surveillance and other excesses of the federal government. Eight state legislatures and nearly 400 local and county governments have responded by passing resolutions upholding the civil liberties of their 85 million constituents, who make up one-third of the U.S. population. Such a large, powerful, and nonpartisan groundswell of people acting locally to hold their federal elected representatives accountable is unparalleled in U.S. history. We commend Senator Feingold for reading the state resolutions of Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Montana, and Vermont, and the county and local government resolutions of his home state of Wisconsin aloud to his Senate colleagues yesterday.

William Shakespeare

In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies in his true nature; And we ourselves

Bernard Arnault

In the coming five years, there'll be activity in the luxury world and we'll be there,

In the dugout we were acting like was a 0-0 ball game and we knew we needed more runs.

David Morgan

In their long-term interest we certainly hope that they will act responsibly with respect to the species. It's their resource to be looked after.

In their haste, perhaps, to take a stand on the class-action question, my colleagues . . . show a new hostility to a long-recognized form of litigation, ... I am concerned that today's opinion sends a message that we, as a court, will employ different standards for cases coming out of the Fifth District on which national attention has been focused in order to reach a desired result.

In the '70s it was undoubtedly the most active feature in California.

Chevy Chase

In the '60s, I started acting on these little video machines with my friends. We started a comedy workshop called Channel One in the Village.

In the 33-year history of the Endangered Species Act, less than one percent of species listed as endangered or threatened under the Act have been recovered. While most would consider a less-than-one-percent recovery rate a failure, many environmentalists apparently consider it good enough to continue the status quo.

In some cases, you had detainees that had made some incriminating statements about other detainees, and about third parties back in their home countries. In others, detainees had made statements that could be taken by enemy forces as disloyal acts against them. In others, detainees indicated that they had cooperated with U.S. forces, which could be held against them by individuals in their home countries.

In some cases, the globalization and expansion of new business activities in developing nations is causing that. More manufacturing, more chemicals, more construction, more mining, more high hazardous industry work in developing nations around the world.

Rhonda Britten

Intention is living in the present, actively choosing the future while being aware that in each moment your state of mind is up to you.

James Williams

Intense wave action can whip pipelines like spaghetti.

Intense congressional and public scrutiny has not produced a single substantiated claim that the Patriot Act has been misused to violate Americans' civil liberties. Opponents of the legislation have relied upon exaggeration and hyperbole to distort a demonstrated record of accomplishment and success.