Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Bissell

I have an immensely understanding partner who does something creative herself, and we both need a lot of time alone. I structure my life around getting my work done, first and foremost. Everything else is secondary. That's the only way I've been able to do it.

Freddie Mercury

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

Anatoly Karpov

I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency

Dick Van Patten

I like to do TV series. I think they're so comfortable. You're doing the same part every week.

Galen Rowell

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

Christopher Walken

I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

Matt Bomer

I like to just work with great directors.

Michael Shannon

I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.

Esperanza Spalding

I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance.

Nolan Ryan

I like to refer to my years with the Angels as the foundation of my career.

Kelly Preston

I like to spend my time with my children.

Shailene Woodley

I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.

Stanley Tucci

I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

Willa Cather

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Ivanka Trump

I like very strong guys. Successful guys. Not necessarily financially.

Ridley Scott

I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

I like white wine when it's young and vigorous. I don't think you should cellar white wine at all, unless it's white Burgundy, and definitely not nonvintage Champagne.

Demetri Martin

I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!

Alan Cumming

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

Chris Squire

I like working with modern sounds in the studio as much as I'm happy to work with a basic rock n' roll format.

Victoria Wood

I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

Aaron Tveit

I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.

Shreya Ghoshal

I listen to a wide range of music, from country to pop to alternative rock, as well as Indian music. You know, what excites me are new ideas. And with a lot of the international hits - from Lady Gaga to Rihanna and others - you'd find excellent production and groundbreaking ideas that lift the music to a greater realm.

Lee Konitz

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

Daniel Handler

I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.

Stella McCartney

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

Kim Edwards

I lived for two years in Odawara, a castle town an hour outside of Tokyo, near the sea. It's a beautiful place, and I drew on my experiences there when writing 'The Lake of Dreams.'

Patricia Polacco

I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.

Shawn Johnson

I live for Pilates reformer class. I go at least three times a week. It's a great way to lengthen your muscles, stretch, and kind of relax your mind.

Paul Muldoon

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too

Sean Penn

I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.

Dawn French

I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that.

Frankie Avalon

I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life.

William Howard Taft

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

Sidney Crosby

I'll be the first one to admit my first couple of years I was pretty hard on the refs.

Sharon Horgan

I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry.

Lenny Bruce

I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

Tobey Maguire

I'll go do films for three or four months and then I can't wait to go home to LA. And I complain about LA left and right, but then I always end up wanting to go home, you know?

Susan Minot

Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

Maximilian Schell

I'll never forget Spencer Tracy. He only worked from nine to one - then from three to five again.

George Harrison

I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.

Jacques Barzun

I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

Patricia Clarkson

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

Brian Celio

I'll take a redrum with a rellik please.

Eva Longoria

I'll talk about my Tony all day long.

Walter Hill

I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.

Robert De Niro

I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.

Patrick Warburton

I'll work with Jerry Seinfeld any day of the week. Get a nice little paycheck there, but you do it for free. It's just good to be associated with that man. He's a great guy.

Barry Zito

I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

David Baldacci

I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research.