Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Odenkirk

Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

Bob Odenkirk

I'm about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other hand, it might to start feel that way.

Blythe Danner

Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

Blanche Lincoln

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

Bo Burnham

People give me money and I don't know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.

Bo Burnham

I'm interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they're scary, and they're important to think about. I'm also wary about the fact that if you don't proceed with caution and understand what you're doing, you understand these things are realities that you're dealing with, they're real things.

Bo Burnham

What's important is that you stay true to yourself. Because when you enter the real world, the most valuable thing you can bring is all your you-ness. The world doesn't need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers - the world needs more you. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Billy Higgins

But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know, in a real situation.

Billy Idol

My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.

Billy Idol

When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.

Billy Gibbons

It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

Billy Gibbons

It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.

Billy Eichner

By TV standards - I'm not comparing it to manual labor by any means - by TV comedy standards, it is the hardest job I will ever, ever have. There is nothing that could be harder. I mean, when you combine the amount of writing that has to be done - sharp writing - with the fact that you then take it to the street and improvise with both celebrities who have no idea what's going to happen and real people who are not actors or comedians who don't even know I'm about to talk to them... It's lightning in a bottle every time.

Billy Eichner

I'm not a big reality show fan, because I just think it's too fake.

Billy Joel

I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.

Billy Joel

Give us this day our daily discount merchandise.

Bill Rancic

I was into real estate. I was always an entrepreneur.

Bill Russell

We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.

Bill Johnson

Divine favor causes you to rise to the top in your sphere of influence, and the reality is that favor can be recognized more easily is your start at the bottom.

Bill Johnson

Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing.

Beverley Mitchell

In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.

Beverly Cleary

She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

Beyonce Knowles

When you're famous no one looks at you as a human anymore. You become the property of the public. There's nothing real about it.

Beyonce Knowles

We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.

Beyonce Knowles

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

Bernardo Bertolucci

I'm no longer interested in making political films. There's something old-fashioned about them. Young people now don't care for politics. It isn't present in life as it used to be. And increasingly I like films which reflect present-day reality.

Bernardo Bertolucci

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.

Benjamin Netanyahu

In the frameworks of a peace agreement, a government under my leadership would agree to make real territorial concessions but will not compromise our security borders. We want there to be less friction. We want to remove outposts to help the Palestinian population. We will not reoccupy the Palestinian population.

Edward Hopper

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

Edward James Olmos

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through

Edward Gibbon

The spectator and historian of [Belisarius's] exploits has observed, that amidst the perils of war, he was daring without rashness, prudent without fear, slow or rapid according to the exigencies of the moment; that in the deepest distress he was animated by real or apparent hope, but that he was modest and humble in the most prosperous fortune.

Edward Gibbon

We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race.