All Quotes

A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting.
‐‐ Erin Cummings

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!
‐‐ Ashton Kutcher

A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood. These are big subjects, big subjects. You can't balk at work like that. As an actor, that's as good as it gets.
‐‐ Robert Carlyle

A lot of the characters I've played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety and pain.
‐‐ Jason Statham

A lot of the children I photograph are extremely colorfully dressed in some way. But I also find a lot of kids with outsized personalities or who happen to be doing something charming.
‐‐ Brandon Stanton

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
‐‐ Frederik Pohl

A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.
‐‐ Alan Moore

A lot of the data we collect is stuff that has to be analyzed on the ground. For instance, we can't see, you know, bone loss. Our cells, you know, that's something that we'll have to notice with imaging technology when I get back.
‐‐ Scott Kelly

A lot of the demonstrations that I do, when I get inside people's minds, is understanding human behavior and understanding how people think and getting their patterns down so I know how to create the illusion that I get inside their brain.
‐‐ Criss Angel

A lot of the differences between people have biologic underpinnings. Now, we have a dogma of egalitarianism. Everyone's the same.
‐‐ Gregory Stock

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.
‐‐ Matthew Tobin Anderson

A lot of the earliest 'Instagram' celebrities took really beautiful photos. But you're starting to see a change where it's not about beauty; it's about the story that you tell.
‐‐ Kevin Systrom

A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of the people who ran WordPress were on their own.
‐‐ Matt Mullenweg

A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal.
‐‐ Frederick W. Smith

A lot of the education that I got at Michigan State I still use to this very day.
‐‐ Tyler Oakley

A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.
‐‐ George Soros

A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.
‐‐ Dylan Moran

A lot of the fighters will say you'll know if a fighter's won or lost just by a fighter's eyes - whether they're scared of the other person.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.
‐‐ Martin Compston

A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.
‐‐ Alfonso Cuaron

A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past.
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh

A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
‐‐ Eva Green

A lot of the friends I had went on to become criminals.
‐‐ Joel Kinnaman

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
‐‐ Anthony Hecht

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski

A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington to accomplish anything. They don't understand why people end up in politics; they would do much more good for the world if they worked at Google or Facebook.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.
‐‐ Jill Scott

A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.
‐‐ Nick Cannon

A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'
‐‐ Eric Schmidt

A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments.
‐‐ Phil Klay

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.
‐‐ Mike Gordon

A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.
‐‐ Michael Bolton

A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.
‐‐ Audrina Patridge

A lot of the hate mail I get is clearly misogynist. I am a proud liberal, feminist woman, and the hate mail I get about those three things is not about me.
‐‐ Janeane Garofalo

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.
‐‐ Ronald Graham

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.
‐‐ Roy Ayers

A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.
‐‐ Nate Lowman

A lot of the Indians who came to North America in the '70s, and who made very successful adjustments, always had an idea of the India that they had left, not realizing that the India that they had left has changed more profoundly than the America they came to.
‐‐ Clark Blaise

A lot of the issue that is happening in Syria is Assad is still there. And after years now, the administration, of saying Assad has to go, the pressure is not being applied to Russia, to Iran - the folks that are propping up Assad - and Assad himself to be able to actually be removed there and to transition to another leader.
‐‐ James Lankford

A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character.
‐‐ Shawn Wayans

A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.
‐‐ John Updike

A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.
‐‐ Sam Hunt

A lot of the listeners don't realize that the Daytona 24 Hours is the most difficult race in the world. It's 24 hours, a lot of darkness because it's held at the end of January, so you're talking about 13-14 hours of darkness.
‐‐ Scott Pruett

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.
‐‐ Thurston Moore

A lot of the lyrics I write involve images that just swing the song in a way that feels really good to me and there isn't a literal explanation. They're not riddles for the listener to solve.
‐‐ Matt Berninger

A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe.
‐‐ Kirk Hammett

A lot of the messed-up stuff that men inflict on women is kind of a symptom of the messed-up stuff that they should be dealing with themselves.
‐‐ Ben Schnetzer

A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.
‐‐ Ron Chernow

A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.'
‐‐ Joseph Gordon-Levitt