All Quotes

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

A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
‐‐ Dan Fogelman

A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set.
‐‐ Doris Kearns Goodwin

A lot of times when people become successful, people don't really understand what they had to do or the sacrifices they made to do that, or they assume that they had money. This is coming from, like, a kid who was broke and lived with roaches and a single mom in Dorchester.
‐‐ Clinton Sparks

A lot of times when people cast me, they want this big, deep black voice... And I tend to recycle them with different roles from time to time.
‐‐ Kevin Michael Richardson

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.
‐‐ Afrika Bambaataa

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.
‐‐ Alan Jackson

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.
‐‐ John Pomfret

A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to deal with you come back spiritually stronger. It changes you in a way.
‐‐ Elvis Stojko

A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.
‐‐ Daniel H. Pink

A lot of times when you keep it real with somebody, you can't expect them to keep it real with you.
‐‐ Gucci Mane

A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
‐‐ Venus Williams

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.
‐‐ Jason Scott Lee

A lot of times when you're making a record, you put your head down and charge forward until you're done. You just hope that the ideas hold up, because you're kind of lost in your own storm.
‐‐ Robbie Robertson

A lot of times, when you're seeing something that you've done, you're thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.
‐‐ Ben Schnetzer

A lot of times when you're young and carefree, you don't realize, when you tip over the edge, how difficult it is to climb back in.
‐‐ Joe Cocker

A lot of times with novels, you can get a really deep, engaging story, but there's not a lot happening, frankly. Those books tend to be super-literary and dense, and they require a lot of commitment, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but if you want fast-moving action and gore and plot and excitement, you can get shorted on that.
‐‐ Caitlin Kittredge

A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!
‐‐ Karrine Steffans

A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.
‐‐ Morris Chestnut

A lot of times, working in stand up, you're by yourself, and so you just have to rely on yourself only... but I like working in an ensemble.
‐‐ Josh McDermitt

A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.
‐‐ Afrika Bambaataa

A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
‐‐ Laila Robins

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.
‐‐ Jerry Seinfeld

A lot of times, you do independent films for passion because you may even lose money doing one, but it doesn't matter.
‐‐ Sung Kang

A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much of the time.
‐‐ Tony Hale

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.
‐‐ Spike Lee

A lot of times, you get into it with your significant other, and you feel like, 'Oh my God, you are acting crazy.' I've heard that before - I'm sure a lot of us have!
‐‐ Sevyn Streeter

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.
‐‐ James Patterson

A lot of times you go to a concert, and when you leave, you don't know anything more about the act then when you got there.
‐‐ Bill Engvall

A lot of times, you had to beat the bullies at their own game. But the difficulty is not becoming the bully yourself.
‐‐ Pierce Brown

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from.
‐‐ Spike Jonze

A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.
‐‐ A. J. Cook

A lot of times you have very ego-driven actors and actresses that stay in their little world, and when you have a scene together, your worlds meet for a moment. But I don't think that makes for a very good cohesion.
‐‐ Dawn Olivieri

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.
‐‐ John Hawkes

A lot of times you'll have somebody who could be the most talented person in the world, but because they are plus-sized, they're not even considered for a call back.
‐‐ Kelly Price

A lot of times you'll hear bands and it's a different sound coming out than what's on stage. Because you can clean it up through a PA and make it sound completely different than what they really sound like.
‐‐ Angus Young

A lot of times, you're interacting with people for whom you're one of the very few veterans that they've met or had a lot of interactions with, and there's a temptation for you to feel like you can pontificate about what the experience was or what it meant, and that leads to a lot of nonsense.
‐‐ Phil Klay

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.
‐‐ Ruben Blades

A lot of times, you're just so determined to get everything that you're going to vote 'no' if you don't. But if you get 75% of what you want and what your district wants, you should be satisfied with that.
‐‐ Phil Gingrey

A lot of times you see really good-looking guys on TV and you sort of assume that maybe there's some sort of vacuity behind them.
‐‐ Misha Collins

A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
‐‐ Camila Alves

A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.
‐‐ Chris Pine

A lot of truth is said in jest.
‐‐ Eminem

A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around.
‐‐ Louis C. K.

A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates - it's wasteful.
‐‐ Martha Stewart

A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid.
‐‐ Dean Karnazes