All Quotes

For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you.
‐‐ Jeff Koons

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
‐‐ Nicholson Baker

For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.
‐‐ Keegan-Michael Key

For me, as a fan, when I read book series, I tend to be the most judgmental of the last book.
‐‐ Marie Lu

For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
‐‐ Laura Ziskin

For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.
‐‐ Aimee Bender

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.
‐‐ Bret Michaels

For me as a songwriter, I love when other people cover my songs.
‐‐ John Legend

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
‐‐ Nic Pizzolatto

For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.
‐‐ Ismail Kadare

For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write for yourself, then why don't you just keep it under the bed,' so I definitely write for other people.
‐‐ Matt Haig

For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.
‐‐ Khaled Hosseini

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
‐‐ Simon Beaufoy

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.
‐‐ Taylor Schilling

For me, as an actor, going from TV to film was interesting because TV and film are two very different things.
‐‐ Aeriel Miranda

For me, as an actor, just to keep acting and to keep being able to work and to do different roles and challenging roles, that's something I'd love to do.
‐‐ Stephen Hunter

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.
‐‐ Tyler Hoechlin

For me as an actor, you always sort of want to bring yourself to a character in some way. You want to find a way to approach something in a way that's real and interesting, and also so there's some empathy there.
‐‐ Britt Robertson

For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I've done it with my feet bloody.
‐‐ Elizabeth Berkley

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.
‐‐ Dustin Hoffman

For me as an artist, the expansiveness of my interests and my influences make me enigmatic. I think any man can be that way - if you love enough interesting things.
‐‐ CeeLo Green

For me as an individual, it's important that I have a career as a role model for my children, that I earn my own money, and I spend it prudently and imprudently.
‐‐ Trinny Woodall

For me, as far as skin, I'm a big advocate of facials. And I moisturize. And I read my magazines. I listen to good advice from people who really know, and I try to watch what I eat.
‐‐ Eva Longoria

For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?
‐‐ Robert Harris

For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well.
‐‐ Steve Carell

For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little.
‐‐ Heinrich Boll

For me, at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light-year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, and in such circumstances, you can't help but love.
‐‐ Tim O'Brien

For me, at the end of the day, I want to be judged for my work, not for what I've been through and past experiences, necessarily.
‐‐ Jamie Clayton

For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.
‐‐ Michael Chang

For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
‐‐ Kaskade

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson

For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
‐‐ Eddie Murray

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.
‐‐ Jeff Garlin

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
‐‐ A. Bartlett Giamatti

For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, and I liked being out there playing in the sun, and it was a simpler time for all of us.
‐‐ Robert Lorenz

For me, basketball kind of mirrors life. It sounds deep, but the sport has transformed my personality and my daily coping mechanisms. It has meant a lot.
‐‐ Robbie Jones

For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide.
‐‐ Christopher Nolan

For me, beauty comes from natural happiness. I think that a woman glows, and a man, even, when they're healthy and they're happy.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
‐‐ Oscar Niemeyer

For me, because I've been working out since I graduated college, I have to mix it up. But it's not just working out for health's sake; it's also a whole mindset for me. Yoga is really important for that.
‐‐ Kim Raver

For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me.
‐‐ Margaux Hemingway

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.
‐‐ Adam Driver

For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.
‐‐ Jane Campion

For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need.
‐‐ Joe Jamail

For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
‐‐ Rachel Weisz

For me, being a part of the ASPCA is a great way to tie in my love for animals and my love for New York City. Whether it's fighting puppy mills or working with the NYPD to prosecute people who abuse animals or breaking up fight rings, it's an incredible part of my city life.
‐‐ Georgina Bloomberg

For me, being a starter doesn't matter. Of course, I'd like to be in at the end of the game, to be a big part of the team, and to play as many minutes as I can play. But starting and coming off the bench are two different challenges.
‐‐ Sue Wicks

For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a dying breed.
‐‐ Jenny Eclair

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
‐‐ Laura Hillenbrand