Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Martin

I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music.

Steve Carell

It's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny.

Steve Carell

Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting.

Steve Carell

Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.

Stephen Jackson

I have no problem dressing up . . . because I know I'm a nice-looking guy. But as far as chains, I definitely feel that's a racial statement. Almost 100% of the guys in the league who are young and black wear big chains. So I definitely don't agree with that at all.

Stellan Skarsgard

It's really nice to go down to an extremely low-budget movie, but that is very daring and courageous and try something different, where the roles usually are more complicated.

Spike Lee

I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.

Simon Cowell

Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.

Simon Cowell

I don't like people who are hypocritical, who pretend to be nice, particularly in show business when they're nice on camera, and then off camera they're absolutely appalling to the makeup people, or the waitress in a restaurant, you know? I don't like - I can't bear those kind of people. So I like people who are, you know, up front in your face.

Sigourney Weaver

I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film. But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.

Sigourney Weaver

It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.

Shirley Knight

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

Shemar Moore

I like to make money; I like to have nice things. But I love to act; I love to tell stories.

Shelley Moore Capito

Those old adages - you attract more with honey; do unto others - are true. You can get attention by being acerbic or mean or making a bizarre comment. But by being nice, being empathetic, building relationships and listening, people begin to recognize that you're thoughtful and respectful of their position.

Shawn Ashmore

Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.

Shahrukh Khan

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don't want big cars, I don't want big hotel rooms.

Scott Wolf

But since I'm single, it's nice to get a kiss where I can.

Rick Riordan

Anubis frowned. He locked his very nice eyes with mine. “You’re not dead.” “No,” I said. “Though we’re trying awfully hard.

Rick Riordan

Could I just use the loo?” I asked the nice officer. “No.” She closed the door in my face, As if I might rig an explosion in the toilet. Honestly.

Rick Riordan

I just love family meetings. Very cozy, with the Christmas garlands round the fireplace and a nice pot of tea and a detective from Scotland Yard ready to arrest you.

Rick Riordan

In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.

Richard Brautigan

We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.

Richard Brautigan

Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

Renata Adler

Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and invective.

Richard Branson

People are no different from flowers. If you water them, they flourish. If you are not nice to them, they shrivel up

Richard Branson

Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Swami Vivekananda

If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free from all anxiety. One who desires a comfortable and nice life and at the same time wants to realize the Self is like the fool who, wanting to cross the river, caught hold of a crocodile, mistaking it for a log of wood.

Tinie Tempah

I was well brought up, my parents are still together. I lived in a council estate, but I don't anymore; I saw my parents buy a nice house and move me to a nice area.

Tite Kubo

BE QUIET!!...What do you want...? I was in the middle of saying something nice...

Tite Kubo

That wasn't very nice...I do believe you killed my hat. ~Kisuke Urahara

Robert Altman

The Oscar for the films, it'd be nice. But I don't make those kind of films, and I don't think that will ever happen.

Robert Altman

They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.