Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer
Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz
Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.
‐‐ Nouriel Roubini
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy
Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.
‐‐ Jon M. Chu
Once you see how powerful music is and how it can affect people, then you want to use it to impact the world.
‐‐ Andra Day
Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland
Once you see the entertainment world from both sides, you really get a greater understanding of how it all operates. As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural and what an actor could actually say.
‐‐ John Francis Daley
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
‐‐ Bodhidharma
Once you sell yourself, it's over. You've got nothing left.
‐‐ Morgan Brittany
Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.
‐‐ Albert Brooks
Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.
‐‐ Chris Cornell
Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.
‐‐ Natalie Massenet
Once you start a war, you have to win.
‐‐ G. Gordon Liddy
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
‐‐ Chanakya
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
‐‐ Mary Astor
Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot.
‐‐ Richard Engel
Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.
‐‐ John Mayall
Once you start cycling, the city opens up for you. No longer are you fighting it, hot and frustrated; no longer are you at the mercy of bus drivers, roadworks, decisions made by others and over which you have no control. Believe me, once you've tasted this freedom, you're hooked.
‐‐ Deborah Moggach
Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.
‐‐ Jack Whitehall
Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.
‐‐ Jerry Seinfeld
Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.
‐‐ Robin Ince
Once you start losing weight and seeing results, you're like, 'I want to see more!'
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian
Once you start lying, you get kind of comfortable. You start believing it. Especially if you truly believe you didn't really cheat because you were doing what everybody else was doing.
‐‐ Tyler Hamilton
Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.
‐‐ Daniel Barenboim
Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.
‐‐ Andrew Cuomo
Once you start talking to people, you find out there's a lot more wrestling fans than you think there are.
‐‐ John Darnielle
Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you.
‐‐ Melissa de la Cruz
Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.
‐‐ Geoffrey Fisher
Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.
‐‐ Tommy Shaw
Once you start thinking about where your products come from and what they 'do,' that's going to be an inherent part of your choice as you purchase products throughout your life.
‐‐ Ellen Gustafson
Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.
‐‐ Linus Torvalds
Once you start to look at the gospels one by one, you realize that followers of Jesus were trying to understand what had happened after he was arrested and killed. They knew Judas had handed him over to the people who arrested him.
‐‐ Elaine Pagels
Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.
‐‐ Peter Garrett
Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.
‐‐ Trevor Phillips
Once you start trying to sell creativity, you're always going to run into the problem that the people selling it aren't as creative as the people making it, and the people making it don't know how to talk business with the people trying to sell it.
‐‐ Dave Pirner
Once you start working out, you feel better and it becomes something you make time to do.
‐‐ Amber Heard
Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.
‐‐ Derek Bok
Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.
‐‐ Melissa McCarthy
Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it down.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia
Once you step on stage, the people are actually looking to be transformed. That's why they showed up; that's why they spent some money. And great performances do that.
‐‐ Jason Moran
Once you step on that stage, to me, that's where I feel most comfortable - performing live. So that's something would do each and every day of my life if I could.
‐‐ Drew Lachey
Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.
‐‐ Stefan Edberg
Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.
‐‐ Tamsin Egerton
Once you take care of people, people respect you.
‐‐ George Weah
Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.
‐‐ Maynard James Keenan
Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
‐‐ Anthony Sampson
Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.
‐‐ Peter Landesman
Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.
‐‐ Bobby Orr