All Quotes

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.
‐‐ Anthony Hopkins

Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.
‐‐ John Green

Every time I use an app, part of my brain dies! We'll get to the point where we go to bed and wonder: 'Did I have a thought today?' You'll have to go to your 'Thought' app!
‐‐ Lewis Black

Every time I've been on Everest, people have died, though not in any expedition I was part of.
‐‐ Kenneth Kamler

Every time I've been to Los Angeles, I've hated it. My brother works there, so I usually go each year for a holiday.
‐‐ Laurence Fox

Every time I've crossed to a new level of film acting, the film has been a breakthrough project.
‐‐ Anupam Kher

Every time I've done a fund raiser, I've been blown away by the amount of money and the generosity that our fans have.
‐‐ Amanda Tapping

Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.
‐‐ Aziz Ansari

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
‐‐ Mario Cuomo

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings.
‐‐ Norman Foster

Every time I've gotten myself into trouble, it's because I'm choosing a project based on a long-term career goal as opposed to something that speaks to me at the moment.
‐‐ Ryan Reynolds

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.
‐‐ Shaun White

Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.
‐‐ Dermot Mulroney

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
‐‐ Robert Rauschenberg

Every time I've talked about my family in the past, people have ended up getting upset. So I said to my friends and family: 'I shan't refer to you at all, and there's nothing for you to get upset about. There's the deal.'
‐‐ Richard Griffiths

Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.
‐‐ Javier Bardem

Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals.
‐‐ Diplo

Every time I was driving on the L.A. freeway in a small car, it was very unnerving for me. One time I rented an SUV, and it just changed my whole perspective of driving, and I was converted to SUVs from that day on.
‐‐ Lauren Lee Smith

Every time I was playing basketball, I felt sick to my stomach. I didn't realize that feeling was having to leave my family - having to leave my sister, who can't even communicate with me when I'm gone.
‐‐ Elena Delle Donne

Every time I went into the studio, I always sung with my heart. If it came out as strong, as good, as powerful as that to my fans, then I was satisfied. I never slacked. I always did all the songs the same way as the first.
‐‐ Percy Sledge

Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.
‐‐ Dick Dale

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.
‐‐ Sara Blakely

Every time I went on the radio, I would take the crummiest radio station, the station that was like a toilet bowl. I would go on there and build up the ratings, so you couldn't do any worse.
‐‐ Howard Stern

Every time I went on TV I got a threat.
‐‐ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.
‐‐ Jimmy Connors

Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long to have children.
‐‐ Janine di Giovanni

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
‐‐ Viktor Korchnoi

Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.
‐‐ Bill Nunn

Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.
‐‐ Sammi Hanratty

Every time I work on a scene or I work on the overall movie, I had my kids unconsciously in mind. Is that going to please them? Is it going to be funny for them? And if it is funny for them, is it going to be funny for their friends and their friends' friends?
‐‐ Pierre Coffin

Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.
‐‐ Elizabeth Pena

Every time I work with a star, I learn a lot. Also, I teach a lot because I'm a shoemaker, a designer. I'm born with a pencil in my hand. For old teenagers like me it's good to learn.
‐‐ Giuseppe Zanotti

Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer to call it government leadership. My life has taken me to places where I have experiences that I think I can share. A lot of times, we see people who are career politicians. I'm not the conventional candidate, nor do I want to be.
‐‐ Brad Wenstrup

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
‐‐ Nana Mouskouri

Every time I write a book, I think how I could be doing it better to please people - a nicer book with nicer characters - but I just can't.
‐‐ John Burnside

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.
‐‐ Lauren Myracle

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.
‐‐ Joseph Wambaugh

Every time I write a song I feel really lucky and kind of surprised. Not surprised that I wrote it, but just surprised that things exist that you don't know about.
‐‐ Amos Lee

Every time I write a song my approach changes.
‐‐ Shawn Mendes

Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.
‐‐ Jim Woodring

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

Every time in my life when I have chosen to delay following inspired counsel or decided that I was an exception, I came to know that I had put myself in harm's way. Every time that I have listened to the counsel of prophets, felt it confirmed in prayer, and then followed it, I have found that I moved toward safety.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.
‐‐ Jack Kemp

Every time is a learning experience, and you pick up a little bit, and you learn things and try not to repeat them the next time.
‐‐ Drew Pomeranz

Every time Jimmy Scott sings, it's the same but slightly different. I don't know how he does that or where he gets that from. I think it's instinct. Nothing he does is by chance; he's in complete control of what he's doing. He's just beautiful and unique.
‐‐ Sufjan Stevens