All Quotes

A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.
‐‐ Jason Ritter

A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
‐‐ Liev Schreiber

A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to.
‐‐ Hayden Schlossberg

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.
‐‐ Sanya Richards-Ross

A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things.
‐‐ Lee Ann Womack

A lot of times, it's nice to open, because the heat's off you. You just go out and blast your set and say to whoever's going to finish, 'There you go.' Even though when you first start, people are drifting in, and that's kind of a bit disconcerting.
‐‐ Joe Cocker

A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.
‐‐ Dan Gilroy

A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.'
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in a box - to say, 'Oh, since this work deals with surface desires at times, this is about consumerism.' And of course, the base of the work is... not about economics at all.
‐‐ Jeff Koons

A lot of times on our show, 'Shadowhunters,' we have excuses to dawn some kind of sexy black leather attire under the excuse that we're going to fight demons, but it's all part of the tone of the piece and the tone of the story.
‐‐ Katherine McNamara

A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
‐‐ Fergie

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.
‐‐ David Duchovny

A lot of times, people are ashamed of feeling weak and being rejected - so it's liberating to be able to sing about those things. And it's amazing when other people don't feel alone because they hear it.
‐‐ Banks

A lot of times, people complain about how books and stories change when they're translated to the screen. But I think sometimes people forget that a lot of changes have to be made because we're not in a book when we're watching a movie.
‐‐ Brian Selznick

A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.
‐‐ Sam Yagan

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
‐‐ Kali Hawk

A lot of times, people just want to be an individual. But if you really want to win, at the end of the day, it's not about you just achieving something. Everybody can achieve more if they work together.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

A lot of times people's main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think there's enough good people that help make the world a good place.
‐‐ Tina Yothers

A lot of times people say, 'As soon as you relax you'll have a kid.'
‐‐ Courteney Cox

A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.
‐‐ James Altucher

A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles.
‐‐ Jan Koum

A lot of times, people think that it doesn't make sense for people to be depressed when they have everything, a loving husband, a successful career, fame and fortune. I wanted to make this point that profound despair can strike anybody.
‐‐ Miriam Toews

A lot of times, people won't be 100 percent real with their story, and I wanted to give people the drawn-out experience of the perseverance and the struggle that it took to get here.
‐‐ Tory Lanez

A lot of times, really wonderful things that have come my way have come basically out of the blue.
‐‐ Stacey D'Erasmo

A lot of times, scripts are written so the character is all one way. Even with 'Bringing Out the Dead,' the character was written a little more generic.
‐‐ Ving Rhames

A lot of times, some of my best ideas happen when I'm running. That's when I do my best thinking.
‐‐ Apolo Ohno

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.
‐‐ Mick Jagger

A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like on record. If I had total control, I would do a lot of the old songs - not only my songs but Sam Cooke songs, Luther Vandross, melody songs. That's what I would really do if I had an opportunity to do a record.
‐‐ Darlene Love

A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.
‐‐ Alan Ball

A lot of times, the inspiration for a novel is a messy bird's nest of shiny things. Little things that don't make a whole lot of sense or that, no matter how hard you look, cannot be found directly in the finished book.
‐‐ Molly O'Keefe

A lot of times, the internal R&D doesn't pan out. You go down one route, you find that it doesn't work the way you planned, and you have to switch and go down another one.
‐‐ Brendan Iribe

A lot of times, the press guys ask why I take an hour and a half to come to the interview room, but if you don't do the massage and the ice baths and the stretching and the cooling down and the eating, and your opponent is doing that stuff, they already have an advantage.
‐‐ Andy Murray

A lot of times, us within the industry, we can put this bubble around ourselves and create what a show is supposed to look like and sound like, and we're seeing so much content. The best compliment is, 'I finally found something to watch with my family,' or, 'This is how I really feel, and I can't believe they're showing this on television.'
‐‐ Jerrod Carmichael

A lot of times, we also have to live and work. You have to make money to pay rent. In that respect, I don't think you can be so demanding. Those great stories are not the normal stories that come on a daily basis. It's a struggle to land those roles. Everybody is looking for the good parts.
‐‐ Djimon Hounsou

A lot of times, we are trapped by our own false sense of security. You can do whatever it is you put your mind to. Your goal is to find your purpose.
‐‐ Kenny Leon

A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don't see a big picture for our lives. We don't love ourselves. We don't have a way of kind of gauging the future.
‐‐ Jennifer Holliday

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.
‐‐ Spike Lee

A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
‐‐ Aaron Diehl

A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.
‐‐ Josh Radnor

A lot of times we see choices in front of us, and we limit ourselves by what we see. God wants us to see His way of doing things. And His way is always greater than our ways.
‐‐ Victoria Osteen

A lot of times we work across multiple platforms. We'll go to Japan working on the tsunami for 'Nightly News' and it'll end up on 'Dateline.'
‐‐ Lester Holt

A lot of times what happens is, not even just with child actors, but people in general, is they get so caught up in the now. The hot song, the hot TV show, the hot movie. You're not saying 'OK, this is cool, but where am I trying to be 20 years from now?' That's always been in the forefront of my mind.
‐‐ Malcolm-Jamal Warner

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.
‐‐ Matt Cameron

A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that I loved about them. Rereading 'The Secret Garden,' I felt a lot like Mary feels when she visits her garden.
‐‐ Ellen Potter

A lot of times when I'm not at work I like to let my face breath and not put makeup on.
‐‐ Jessica Szohr

A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.
‐‐ Nate Ruess

A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
‐‐ Gail Devers

A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two and go, 'Let me try a bunch of things I was thinking of, as you were doing that.'
‐‐ Hank Azaria

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.
‐‐ Joel Hodgson

A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
‐‐ Karen Allen