As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas broken up into cardboard boxes. They make us think twice about changing addresses.
‐‐ John Updike
As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents, and we just go out and audition for them.
‐‐ James Frain
As much as everyone says that Superman is good, a lot of other people might say that that's why they find him boring... A lot of Batman fans might say that.
‐‐ Henry Cavill
As much as football can cause war, it can also cause peace. Football is a kind of Geiger counter of civilisation, or a catalyst for good as well as bad.
‐‐ Elfriede Jelinek
As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.
‐‐ DJ Jazzy Jeff
As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.
‐‐ Jake Gyllenhaal
As much as I appreciate acting and enjoy it, and like it, it wasn't something where I grew up wanting to be a movie star.
‐‐ Max Thieriot
As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is my... interpretation and my truthfulness with songs, and I don't want young people to think it's all about the high notes that they have to hit.
‐‐ Idina Menzel
As much as I believe in the Franco-German partnership, I question the idea of a duopoly. European construction is based on a well-balanced and respectful partnership between France and Germany.
‐‐ Francois Hollande
As much as I can act, I don't have anything in me that yearns to be an actor - that sense of needing to be onstage, in costume, in character; that is utterly not interesting to me.
‐‐ Jason Robert Brown
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
‐‐ John Adams
As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen.
‐‐ Chris Van Allsburg
As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.
‐‐ Steve Earle
As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.
‐‐ Curt Schilling
As much as I'd love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.
‐‐ Holliday Grainger
As much as I'd only like to concentrate on the creative side of acting, the whole business in general is just that - a business - and you have to do your homework if you want to be successful.
‐‐ Margot Robbie
As much as I devoured comics, I read non-graphic books exponentially more, so I'm not sure I can credit or blame them. Comics, however, taught me a lot about what makes a story arc work and how to bring a story to its natural resting place between issues.
‐‐ Lilith Saintcrow
As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.
‐‐ Christopher Atkins
As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.
‐‐ Penn Jillette
As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my house, it's hard for me to relax. I'm too obsessed with whether everyone's having a good time.
‐‐ Rachael Harris
As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.
‐‐ Christopher Moore
As much as I enjoy seeing other guys do the superhero approach to the Batman universe, personally my own vision falls a bit left of center.
‐‐ Lee Bermejo
As much as I enjoy TV, I've always loved radio. And I love doing the NFL games, the Monday night games, on radio. Because you are the game. I really enjoyed calling basketball and hockey on the radio, but the presentation is more specific - you're talking all the time.
‐‐ Marv Albert
As much as I hate auditioning - it's so hard and awkward - it's way better to walk out of that room and win a role because of what you did.
‐‐ Jessica Biel
As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.
‐‐ Tony Kushner
As much as I hate to say it, what I'm coming to realize is that all we're really able to do is put the brakes on. Imagine going real fast in a Flintstones car, and my heel is out there. I went to Washington to change the world, and all I can do is put my heel out.
‐‐ Blake Farenthold
As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.
‐‐ Patton Oswalt
As much as I like to be thoughtful and think things through in my decision making - I don't like knee jerk decisions - but I'm not afraid to make decisions.
‐‐ Ron Jaworski
As much as I like to explore the world, I explore music - from classical to rock.
‐‐ Jochen Zeitz
As much as I like watching horror films, I never thought I would act in them.
‐‐ Jessica Lucas
As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.
‐‐ Pierre Salinger
As much as I loathe this aging thing, I'm beginning to recognize that I am now a healthier person in terms of self-worth and knowing who I am and where I fit in the world. That's been a good trade-off for the wrinkles.
‐‐ Patty Duke
As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.
‐‐ Matthew Macfadyen
As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it.
‐‐ Jonathan Demme
As much as I love acting, I just want to be a healthy person.
‐‐ Brie Larson
As much as I love and respect my brother, I'm doing my best to distance myself from him and kind of show people that, even though we do look similar and have similar mannerisms, we are completely different.
‐‐ Dave Franco
As much as I love Antonioni films, I love the Three Stooges.
‐‐ Joe Carnahan
As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.
‐‐ Mark Helprin
As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out.
‐‐ Tift Merritt
As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
‐‐ Budd Schulberg
As much as I love creating entertaining visuals, I love toying with the pace of a movie and trying to perfect that. It's imperative to the impact: faster cuts, cuts at the right moments that meld with the tenor of a scene. Creating and maintaining that feeling.
‐‐ Asif Kapadia
As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.
‐‐ Gary Vaynerchuk
As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.
‐‐ Zakk Wylde
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin
As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.
‐‐ Julian Lennon
As much as I love my daughters, I wasn't happy with only being a stay-at-home-dad, and my wife encouraged me to try, to really try, at being a writer. More than anything, I didn't want to let her down.
‐‐ Alexi Zentner
As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm... it's hard for the audience to relate to them.
‐‐ Brian Helgeland
As much as I love scores of wonderful sites across the web, most of them are driven by the daily grind of the display/pageview hamster wheel. They create 20, 30, 40 'content snacks' a day, and I miss far more than I consume.
‐‐ John Battelle
As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.
‐‐ Corey Taylor
As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I'd eventually run out of steam on that, and that would've been the end of it.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood