Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Rickitt

I don't honestly know why they offered me the part in Rent.

Adam Rickitt

I did manage to secure a feature film for 2005, though, which I'm really chuffed about.

Marianne Faithfull

I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.

Jason Statham

I'm impressed with the likes of Jet Li and Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee was a big hero of mine for many years. They're great influences.

Beck

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

Johnny Depp

I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.

It is a pleasure to me to run up to London and enjoy the collections at the National Gallery, South Kensington, and the Royal Academy.

It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.

Graham Nash

I think Stills has been playing better than ever. I know a lot of it sounds self-serving, but he truly has.

Edward Hall

Jill Fraser was one of the greatest forces in British theatre. She was an inspiration to all my work and a rock whenever times were hard. I have never met a more courageous person, or somebody who managed to focus with such energy and determination on putting challenging work on the stage. As a young director she took a risk on me and has stuck by me even when I made mistakes. Loyalty such as this is rare. The sense of loss at this time is immeasurable.

Julian Glover

Star Wars was not a very big part but I enjoyed doing it and I get more fan mail for that than anything else I've ever done. It's quite extraordinary, it comes in every day, unbelievable.

Mick Fleetwood

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

Saddam Hussein

Terrorism is coming. I told the Americans a long time before Aug 2 (the day in 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait) and told the British as well... that in the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction.

My thesis was on kinetics studies with the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase. When that was finished, I was granted a British Council Fellowship to work under the supervision of Malcolm Dixon.

Richard Wilson

My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.

Jackie Collins

My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?

Sydney Brenner

My parents would have preferred me to become a surgeon or a physician but were most understanding of the ambitions of their son.

Tim Roth

My mentors were my editiors. You come from location work with a million people and questions, and you get into the editing room, and its two people.

My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time.

Located on the incomparable Monterey Peninsula, Pebble was created by Jack Neville. Masters and British Open winner Mark O'Meara says he puts Pebble at the top of his list, and the par 5 18th hole defines Pebble for many television viewers: O'Meara has walked that fairway as a champion five times.

Look, he plays Davis Cup for Britain, but he's Scottish. He's Scottish first and British second, and there shouldn't be any misunderstanding about that.

Susan George

Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.

Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.

John Caudwell

I will stay living in Staffordshire. Other people would be moving offshore. I am reasonably happy to help support the British economy. I have done very well out of Britain.

Dick Francis

I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.

Julian Sands

I was in my mid-20s when I did A Room With A View, and now I'm 41. I can't think of anything since that has been that widely viewed.

Bernard Cornwell

I still have to crack the French market, though that isn't entirely surprising considering that the Sharpe novels are endless tales of French defeat.

John Thaw

I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him.

Jon Anderson

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

Patricia Hewitt

I suppose the one very striking thing, you know, to a British observer is the fact that Labour is in power in every State in Australia.