All Quotes

As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school run, and I'm sewing labels onto socks. That's what I'm doing.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.
‐‐ Kate Forsyth

As an adult, I'll give a writer 50 pages. If the book doesn't interest me in 50 pages, I'll say the heck with it - there are just too many other things to read. A child won't give you 50 pages.
‐‐ Sid Fleischman

As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made me more graceful.
‐‐ Ann Hood

As an adult, I've always found the stereotype that Jews are liberal a curious one; my parents' circle was predominantly conservative, not just on Israel but on most political issues. Most of all, they were intensely (and this is a word I remember repeating in my own angry adolescent dialogues with myself) tribal.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.
‐‐ Bruce Eric Kaplan

As an adult, there are technical aspects of filmmaking you understand, like having to pick up a cup on the same line every time.
‐‐ Brie Larson

As an adult, you think of yourself as being someone else when you're away from your family, but when you come back to your family, you suddenly find yourself back in the exact same role that you always had in your family as a child and as a teenager.
‐‐ John Wells

As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told.
‐‐ Chadwick Boseman

As an African American actress, there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.
‐‐ Monique Coleman

As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down, never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.
‐‐ Rita Dove

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.
‐‐ Tim Hardaway

As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
‐‐ Omari Hardwick

As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.
‐‐ Ta-Nehisi Coates

As an agent, I functioned like a guy. But the fact that I was a woman affected everything.
‐‐ Sue Mengers

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.
‐‐ Maurice Gibb

As an already high-demand, low-density military asset, we cannot afford to lose the JSTARS's BMC2/ISR unparalleled capability.
‐‐ Tom Graves

As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.
‐‐ Mandy Moore

As an ambassador for the aid agency Cafod and the Anthony Nolan Trust, I need to be sure that my public support for those charities is a help for their work, not a hindrance.
‐‐ David Harewood

As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.
‐‐ Daniel Sunjata

As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love doesn't stop at borders. Love is infinitely boundless and all about holy trespassing and offensive friendships.
‐‐ Shane Claiborne

As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.
‐‐ Jason Mraz

As an American, I grew up in an era where we led the world in everything. Everything!
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

As an American, I want our forces to prevail.
‐‐ George McGovern

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?
‐‐ Jodi Picoult

As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
‐‐ Arthur Golden

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.
‐‐ Benjamin Todd Jealous

As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.
‐‐ Taylor Negron

As an American, you appreciate the importance of our security alliance, the importance of the economic ties between our two countries, and while I knew of the two bonds between our two people, until I came here, I didn't really appreciate how deep the people-to-people connections are between the American people and the Japanese people.
‐‐ John Roos

As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.
‐‐ Andrew Weil

As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a minority of one. That was a source of misery, but at the same time, one of the effects of receiving the message that you don't belong to the club is that you watch the club with detachment. The fact that no one quite knew who I was was a major contributory factor in starting to write.
‐‐ Glen Duncan

As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show.
‐‐ Randy West

As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation.
‐‐ Ellen Gustafson

As an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, I testify to you this day that the time will come when every one of us will look into the Savior's loving eyes.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.
‐‐ Rem Koolhaas

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.
‐‐ Gianfranco Ferre

As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do.
‐‐ Renzo Piano

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
‐‐ Norman Foster

As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enjoy music - making a space for art is the same thing.
‐‐ Renzo Piano

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
‐‐ Alan Alda

As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread.
‐‐ Jim Lee

As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
‐‐ Vince Vaughn

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
‐‐ Paul Robeson

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
‐‐ Laurie Anderson

As an artist, I feel so fortunate to be able to learn from all these great musicians that came before me, when some people have nobody that came before them.
‐‐ Kiesza

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.
‐‐ John Cassavetes

As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.
‐‐ Edward Ruscha

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
‐‐ Theodore Bikel