Famous Quotes & Sayings

Derek Jacobi

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

Derek Jeter

I just think that your private life is private. What I do is obviously public, I get that. I get the fact that people are interested. I'm interested in a lot of people as well. I've just chosen to stay as private as possible.

Derek Jeter

When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!

Derek Jeter

I want to own a team one day. You know, that's my next goal.

Derek Jeter

I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.

Derek Jeter

Good teams make the playoffs, hot teams win the playoffs.

Derek Jeter

I never think about my own stats, as long as I'm contributing to the team.

Derek Jeter

A lot of teams, I think, are just happy to make the post-season. Here, you have to win.

Derek Jeter

I think sometimes people need to get used to an idea.

Derek Jeter

If I'm shifted two steps toward third base and the ball goes up the middle, people say I have no range to my left. That's why those statistics aren't accurate. You're changing for every batter, sometimes with every pitch. You really can't make one statistic for every shortstop. You have to go by what you see.

Derek Jeter

I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots.

Derek Jeter

You know, what is team chemistry? My opinion is when you have enough people who care about winning and enough people who losing affects. That's what chemistry means to me. It doesn't necessarily mean you're going to win, but you're going to have enough people on the same page. It's almost impossible, I think, to get everyone on the same page, but it's gotta mean something to you.

Derek Jeter

So is work ethic. You do things over and over again, and when you get in a situation you like to think it comes natural. I think there has to be a mind-set that you’re not afraid to fail. I’m not afraid to fail. I’ve done it quite a bit. The calmer you are, the more the game slows down for you, and I think part of that is controlling your emotions.

Denzel Washington

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

Denzel Washington

I try not to think about that [getting Oscar] ahead of time. You just try to do the best work you can, and then you get the movie out there, and we've been hearing good things. But you never know, you don't want to get too high, and you don't want to get too low.

Denzel Washington

We've all had some level of injustice, whether 20 years in prison, or 20 minutes sitting in your car waiting for a police officer to determine your future. Or even a few moments in an elevator with some woman clutching her purse thinking you're going to rob her ¾ regardless of celebrity, that has happened to me.

Denzel Washington

Don't get all sentimental on me, Makes me think I'm gonna die.

Denzel Washington

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

Denzel Washington

I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.

Denzel Washington

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

Denzel Washington

I get nervous when a picture goes beyond two hours.

Denzel Washington

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

Denzel Washington

Cursed be the ground for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground we were taken, for the dust we are and to the dust we shall return.

Denzel Washington

If you don't fail, you're not even trying.

Denzel Washington

Thank God in advance for what's already yours.

Denis McDonough

I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John's in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.

Denise Juneau

Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can't thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.

Denis O'Hare

I think it was 1987 - something like that - or '86, and I thought, 'When you go equity and you're gonna get paid, you'll finally be able to make a living.' But it was not to be so. I always bartended and waited tables so I ended up not doing theater for about a year because nobody would hire me.

Denis Norden

Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.

Denis Norden

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

Denis Norden

You know you're getting old when a four-letter word for something pleasurable two people can do in bed together is R-E-A-D.

Denis Norden

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.

Denise Levertov

we are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story....