Famous Quotes & Sayings

I've never really played everyday people. I've played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters.

Plato

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

Edmund White

I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

You don't really know what's happening from one day to the next,

Gwendolyn Brooks

Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?

Kevin Spacey

The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.

Nikki Sixx

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

Evan Peters

'American Horror' in particular is a really crazy show. We have crazy crap happening to us on that show.

Helen Clark

I think we should see what's happening in the currency, which is still strong, as positive for exporting.

William Gibson

I think what's actually happening is I'm just being more overt in terms of what I've always been doing,

Antonio Banderas

There's something happening in the world that didn't happen before. We are acting like one big brain.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

I had finished the first draft of 'Life As We Knew It' before Katrina hit, and it was startling to see things I wrote about actually happening in the real world.

Harry Connick, Jr.

You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

We've got to find a way to keep this from happening again.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.

I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets.

Jodi Picoult

I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write the books, spit three times over your shoulder and you're safe.

There are many, many things that are happening that are not normal.

This will help the classifieds have a strong voice in what will be happening as we are working through the Senate bill.

We love this town. There's so much music happening here, when you think about it.

John Rhys-Davies

There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially.

When dual-language started, you had to have at least a 50/50 model. That's not happening in this school, and it is not happening here in Greeley.

Alan Autry

We knew it. We didn't need a study to show us what was happening in our city,

We kind of didn't skate. It has been happening a lot. We let down.

We're really worried about what's happening to the people who don't have this kind of support system.

We work very hard to make sure the Nasdaq is the most transparent market anywhere. We feel that many times the futures market is not as indicative of what is really happening in the pre-opening session.

Francois Hollande

What is happening in the Sahel for the past several months is that terrorists have structured themselves, have installed themselves. It's not simply a menace for west Africa.

Stephen Moyer

When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'

Mark Turgeon

Finally, we made the shot. I'm excited. I'm happy. I'm tired of it happening to us.

Amanda Seyfried

No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters.

David Bowie

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.

Casey Kasem

When I first heard rap, I wasn't quick to be critical. I couldn't understand what they were saying, but I had a feeling it was a reflection of what's been happening in the ghetto.

Heather Graham

Gosh, it's so fun to do a movie where there's nothing dark happening in it.