Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eli Roth

Hopefully we'll get to a point where there are absolutely no restrictions on any kind of violence in movies. I'd love to see us get to a point where you can go to theaters and see movies unrated and that people know its not real violence. It's all pretend. It's all fake. It's just acting. It's just magic tricks.

Eli Roth

I want an iPhone 5, someone said something nasty on twitter, or my boyfriend isn't texting me back, like whatever the thing is that seems so major in your life, when a real disaster hits you suddenly strips it all away and you see what's really important and who you really are.

Edward Whitacre, Jr.

I was brought in by the White House as GM's chairman in 2009, around the time of the bankruptcy, and became CEO later that year. As a company, we were grateful for the government's support. But as GM's financial health began to improve, I could detect no real sense of urgency, or even interest, on the part of the government to relinquish control.

B. F. Skinner

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

B. C. Forbes

The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.

B. C. Forbes

The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.

B. C. Forbes

The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about him. He must do spectacular things. He must not be punctilious about dignity, decorum and other refinements characteristic of the real British gentleman. The Yankee pictured by the Briton must be a bustler. If he is occasionally flagrantly indiscreet in speech and action, then he is so much more surely stamped the genuine article. The most typical American the British ever set their eyes on was, in their judgment, Theodore Roosevelt.

Ashley Bell

or The Last Exorcism, I researched a lot of real exorcisms. I watched videos of exorcisms, I listened to tapes, and I read actual accounts of priests' logs. I also looked at a lot of the physicality. I would look into fits of hysteria and look at energies of people in manic, hysteric fits.

Ashlee Simpson

I think you get noticed a lot more as a brunette, but I don't know. People approach me, I think, but maybe it's because of the reality show.

Ashlee Simpson

I’m going out to let my real talent show, not to just stand there and dance around. Personally, I’d never lip-synch. It’s just not me.

Ashlee Simpson

Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real.

ASAP Rocky

But for real, for me, I feel like with the red lipstick thing it all depends on the pair of complexion. I'm just being for real. You have to be fair skinned to get away with that.

ASAP Rocky

My real name's Rakim - my parents named me after the god MC himself.

Ashleigh Brilliant

What could possibly be more fantastic than reality?

Ashleigh Brilliant

Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane?

Arthur Hailey

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

Arthur Helps

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

Armando Iannucci

The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.

Armie Hammer

My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant.

Arlen Specter

The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method of reasoning'?.

April Gornik

Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

Aprilynne Pike

Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love.

Arabella Weir

The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.

Apolo Ohno

I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.

Ben Shapiro

Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.

Ben Schwartz

When you're acting on TV, you want to keep it real.

Ben Stein

It's a great stretch for me to do my game show. It's very hard. It's not me at all. The only part that's me is sort of when I'm sitting in the booth looking tormented. That's the only part that's the real me.

Bayard Rustin

The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .

Beah Richards

There are a lot of movies out there that I would hate to be paid to do, some real demeaning, real woman-denigrating stuff. It is up to women to change their roles. They are going to have to write the stuff and do it. And they will.

Bea Arthur

I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.

Barbara Goldsmith

No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.

Barbara Deming

It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.