All Quotes

Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
‐‐ Rachel Miner

Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating.
‐‐ Jacques Pepin

Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
‐‐ Bai Ling

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
‐‐ Mary Leakey

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
‐‐ Bernadette Devlin

Basically, I just want to do a movie where I'm surrounded by women.
‐‐ Leslie Mann

Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.
‐‐ Sarah Pinborough

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. I was 4 or 5 or whatever. I think it's a fairly common story.
‐‐ Stephan Pastis

Basically, I left Northern Telecom after 7.5 years of being in one company after school. And then, I ended up in a series of start-ups. The first of those was a company called Sitech, and they were in local area networks.
‐‐ Ram Shriram

Basically, I like research because research is like to solve the quiz, you know. Always there is a problem, and I have to solve the problem. So I like those patterns. It's almost like research is sort of in a quiz.
‐‐ Shuji Nakamura

Basically, I like to pick up my flute, which is a pretty instrument, and play pretty on it.
‐‐ Paul Horn

Basically, I live to do gigs.
‐‐ Amy Winehouse

Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.
‐‐ Rachel Stevens

Basically I'm a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating delicious food with my delicious friends and laughing at ridiculous things that don't translate while you are desperately trying to make them.
‐‐ Tig Notaro

Basically, I'm a free spirit. I'm kind of an Everywoman.
‐‐ Pamela Anderson

Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
‐‐ Iggy Pop

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.
‐‐ Kevin Nealon

Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.
‐‐ Graham Norton

Basically, I'm a romantic.
‐‐ Pia Zadora

Basically, I'm a shy human being. Very introverted.
‐‐ George Hamilton

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
‐‐ Lars von Trier

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
‐‐ Frank Sinatra

Basically, I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don't have a lot of scope, and I'm really picky about what I wear. Even if it's weird, it's very particular to me. And you can't make a business out of what I would wear. We'd be out of business.
‐‐ Marc Jacobs

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
‐‐ Olivia Munn

Basically, I'm more confident in my whole game.
‐‐ Reggie Lewis

Basically, I'm motivated to write about sociopolitical issues as well as relationships. I think those themes have stayed with me throughout my life.
‐‐ Jimmy Cliff

Basically, I'm one of the greatest producers ever. And I'm also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I'm also one of the best executives ever.
‐‐ DJ Khaled

Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
‐‐ Grimes

Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.
‐‐ Miuccia Prada

Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.
‐‐ Chris Farley

Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.
‐‐ Brian McBride

Basically, I see myself as a maker of things who knows how to support other makers of things. At the end of the day, I am just committed to helping put good stories out into the world in whatever role is appropriate and needed for that particular project.
‐‐ Mark Kassen

Basically, I start my morning off with a Bustelo coffee made in a mocha pot - the Bialetti. I warm some milk on the side, on my stove, and I add one teaspoon or half a teaspoon of real sugar. I have two of these every morning. Even when I was pregnant.
‐‐ Debi Mazar

Basically, I started on stage yelling and I kept yelling, and then I yelled some more, and then I yelled even louder. I'm modulated now.
‐‐ Lewis Black

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.
‐‐ Bjorn Borg

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
‐‐ Mariah Carey

Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again.
‐‐ Bruce Boxleitner

Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
‐‐ Ian Watson

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.
‐‐ Edward Norton

Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

Basically, I think that most people either make too much money or not enough money. The jobs that are essential and important pay too little, and those that are essentially managerial pay far too much.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.
‐‐ Edward James Olmos

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.
‐‐ Arlo Guthrie

Basically I try not to knock other comedians.
‐‐ Robert Webb

Basically, I use hammer-ons and pull-offs.
‐‐ Stanley Jordan

Basically, I've always had a complex with the way I walk. I've not always been told I've got a bad walk, but someone's always commented on my walk.
‐‐ Jamie Dornan

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.
‐‐ Henry Flynt

Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really kind of optimistic, and I look forward to a new day. I pick up 'The New York Times,' and I look at the front page and realize that once again I'm wrong. I start to fixate on stuff.
‐‐ Lewis Black

Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.
‐‐ Luis von Ahn