Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amandla Stenberg

I come from a very musical family. My dad taught me to play guitar. I play violin and drums as well. Violin, I started in elementary school. Drums actually came when I was in a program called 'Rock Star,' which was really awesome. We were doing a song by the Ramones, so I thought, 'Why not play the drums?'

Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.

I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.

Seamus Heaney

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.

Stephen Stills

That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.

Sarah Gadon

Movement is very important to a character, no matter what period you're working in. So when it came to playing Emma Jung and lacing up in the corset, it was really not a foreign thing for me.

Sarah Gadon

I'm really into acquiring film paraphernalia - that's my hobby. I love old movie posters, cameras and film reels.

When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course. And I just found myself back in journalism again.

Gerard Butler

When I was a vocalist, a lead singer in a rock band, I was a law student at the time. It wasn't a professional rock band, it was for fun. I was already way out of that by the time Phantom came along. Having to learn to sing, it was such duress, having to really try and get to such a quality.

Gia Coppola

Costumes say a lot about a character. When it came to 'Palo Alto,' it was important for me that the kids didn't look perfect. In most teen movies today, all of the clothes are expensive. I remember wearing a lot of dirty vintage clothes.

Gene Kelly

I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.

Go Ah-sung

I got Elliott Smith's photography book as a gift before. The publisher of that book's logo were glasses, and those glasses came to my mind when I was thinking of having a tattoo.

George Mastras

I started writing prose before I started writing television. Then 'Breaking Bad' came around, and to me, writing 'Breaking Bad' is like writing a novel each season. So it's been very creatively satisfying writing for the show.

Gregory Benford

Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency.

George Smoot

When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart and very motivated and worked very hard, but they were still humans, whereas before they were kind of mythical creatures to me.

Ben Mendelsohn

Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia.

Francesca Annis

My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

If I would characterize my life, I would say that I was a very lucky actor who came into very lucky times, and got to Hollywood, and was put under contract by Warners in the very last days of the studio contract era, and was privileged to go through that time which is gone now.

FKA twigs

When I first released music, and no one knew what I looked like, I would read comments like: 'I've never heard anything like this before; it's not in a genre.' And then my picture came out six months later: now she's an R&B singer.

Frances Fisher

I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

Hulk Hogan

The leg drop was a move that nobody really used, and nobody ever hit the ropes and jumped up really high, so I tried it out in Japan and the people loved it. That's how I came up with it.

Huston Smith

When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones.

Hugh Laurie

It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues record.

Donald Sutherland

When the camera starts to roll, there is something of death about it.

Donna Mills

I feel more comfortable in front of a camera than anywhere else.

Christopher Nolan

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

Ansel Adams

The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

Andrea Arnold

I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me,

Alice Englert

I bought a camera with my first ever paycheck.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Richard K. Morgan

I came quite late to gaming: I didn't start playing until 2002.

The deal just came about. We've been working on it for a while. We're very pleased that DIRECTV recognized the sport by sponsoring a Nextel Cup event. We're more than happy that they chose Martinsville because it's their first entry into a Nextel Cup sponsorship.

Nick Clegg

The contrast with experience and youth compared to the callow charms of David Cameron will serve us well.