All Quotes

As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.
‐‐ John Williams

As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.
‐‐ Jim Evans

As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that's a disguise for being a writer.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera

As a youngster, I travelled every year across the sea to Tiree. On occasion, we ventured to Skye on the Kyleakin-Kyle of Lochalsh ferry, where there is now a bridge.
‐‐ Johann Lamont

As a youngster, I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.
‐‐ Johnny Marr

As a youngster, I was considered exceptional, and in many ways that was to my detriment.
‐‐ Michael Owen

As a youngster in the projects, I definitely didn't have anything. So if you get something, you want to be able to give back and help others.
‐‐ Tyson Chandler

As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. My father was kind of funny. I'd score 40 points. I'd come home and say, 'Look dad, I scored 40.' He'd never have a smile on his face. He'd be like, 'I saw that move you did. What if you'd hurt your knee?'
‐‐ Shaquille O'Neal

As a youngster, my parents made me aware that all that was from the African Diaspora belonged to me. So I came in with Caribbean music, African music, Latin music, gospel music and blues.
‐‐ Taj Mahal

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

As accelerators reach higher and higher energies, we may need a new Standard Model, or, at least, today's may need to be modified, but that's the way science operates.
‐‐ Burton Richter

As actors, for the most part, there's that neuroses most of us possess where, in a day of watching, this character get killed off of this show, and that character get killed off of that show - one never knows.
‐‐ Rick Hoffman

As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.
‐‐ Navid Negahban

As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.
‐‐ Tim DeKay

As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.
‐‐ Reggie Lee

As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor.
‐‐ Holland Roden

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.
‐‐ Linda Fiorentino

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.
‐‐ Juliette Binoche

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive.
‐‐ Ryan Kwanten

As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.
‐‐ Tim Crouch

As actors, we don't shy away from saying, 'I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to meet girls.' Directors cannot say the same thing.
‐‐ Gael Garcia Bernal

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.
‐‐ Moran Atias

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.
‐‐ Teresa Palmer

As actors, we have a philosophy, which is this: great fun. That has transmitted itself into the dwarf philosophy of life. We're up for a brawl, we're up for a bloody good feed, and if you've got food, well, we share what we've got, and so should you.
‐‐ John Callen

As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of options, it's very hard to define yourself.
‐‐ Joel Kinnaman

As actors, we tend to usually have some issues with self-esteem and some need for validation, and it takes awhile for that fear of not having a job to go away.
‐‐ Simon Helberg

As actors, we want to choose somebody who has conflicts. I can't be always playing the girl next door. What's the challenge in that?
‐‐ Sonam Kapoor

As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.
‐‐ Emily Watson

As actors, you always have that moment thinking you've been absolutely terrible or a fraud.
‐‐ Lydia Leonard

As actors, you become an expert at starting over.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.
‐‐ Tom Irwin

As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.
‐‐ John Noble

As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.
‐‐ Marin Ireland

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
‐‐ Laura Carmichael

As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.
‐‐ Matt Bomer

As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.
‐‐ Norman Macleod

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
‐‐ Dennis Potter

As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully.
‐‐ Anthony Browne

As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

As African-Americans, that's what's being played fast and loose with, our citizenship. When you have the Trayvon Martins and the Michael Browns being shot and killed, it's because, on a certain level, there is a kind of mutability in the understanding of citizenship around the black body.
‐‐ Claudia Rankine

As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.
‐‐ Pearl Cleage

As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?
‐‐ Richard Attias

As Africans Americans we often think about the tragic stories associated with our lineage, but there are a lot of triumphs. Traveling helps you learn about other aspects of our history, like the story of Christ the Redeemer. It's empowering and inspiring.
‐‐ Laz Alonso

As Alexander Hamilton said in 'The Federalist Papers,' law is about the exercise of judgment and not will. Judicial activism is best understood as substituting judicial opinion for the command of law. The law is not an infinitely malleable tool.
‐‐ Edwin Meese

As all Americans head forward into the new reality globalization has created, they want leaders who will level with them and help level the playing field.
‐‐ John B. Larson

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.
‐‐ George Henry Lewes

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.
‐‐ Jessica Jackley

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.
‐‐ Stockwell Day