All Quotes

Here's the thing: 'The Hurt Locker' was an amazing, important film. But did I enjoy it? Of course not. It was very tough to watch and, while gripping, not exactly what you'd call a happy place.
‐‐ Rachel Sklar

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.
‐‐ Elizabeth Gilbert

Here's the thing Washington always misses. Washington always wants a deal. America wants a solution. Americans sent us here to solve problems.
‐‐ Jim Jordan

Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don't call them a white film. I'm trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start by recreating hip-hop beats you've heard from other people, or you start mimicking other people, or you're just listening to stuff.
‐‐ Benny Blanco

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.
‐‐ Robin S. Sharma

Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.
‐‐ John C. Reilly

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
‐‐ Bob Dylan

Here's the thing with the business, is that when people like your work, and you make them money, you're set. When the critics like you, and you make the studios money, doors opened.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

Here's the thing with the costumes for 'Mommy': Given the background and social strata that the characters come from, you can't really imagine that they've gone shopping lately, so we went for that very normcore, fashionless era in history, the early 2000s, which was completely transitional.
‐‐ Xavier Dolan

Here's the thing you got to remember: I don't believe that the breakpoint is terrorism. I believe... the breakpoint is Sharia.
‐‐ Paul Nehlen

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.
‐‐ Bill Murray

Here's the thing: you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self, but in a guy, you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.
‐‐ Tracy McMillan

Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.
‐‐ Andrew Lloyd Webber

Here's the truth. Your teens and twenties are your Plan A. At 50, you're assessing whether Plan B or Plan C or any of the other plans you hatched actually worked. Your sixties and seventies, they're an improvisation.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
‐‐ Matt Groening

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.
‐‐ Rick Mercer

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.
‐‐ Stanley Kubrick

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.
‐‐ George Canning

Here's what a phone is: It's a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone.
‐‐ James Altucher

Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.
‐‐ David Mamet

Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.
‐‐ Michael Patrick King

Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century; we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.
‐‐ Michael Moore

Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.
‐‐ Ali MacGraw

Here's what I just realized: A world in which sport at its best is not seen as some kind of art is a world that doesn't deserve any art.
‐‐ Tom Bissell

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.
‐‐ Chris Rock

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.
‐‐ Chris Christie

Here's what I'll say: some toys should be movies, and some toys should not be toys, and I'd like to believe we know the difference between those two things. The movies that work, work when there is a story there that you can take the toy out of, but when you put the toy in, it becomes an even more amazing experience for whatever reason.
‐‐ Alex Kurtzman

Here's what I'm afraid of. I know a lot of comedians, friends of mine, who just got into the 'Doesn't matter what I say. It doesn't matter. They're just gonna laugh anyway.'
‐‐ Patton Oswalt

Here's what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided.
‐‐ Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.
‐‐ Thomas Menino

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.
‐‐ Mike Ditka

Here's what I tell people now when they come to my shows: 'First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package.'
‐‐ Daniel Tosh

Here's what I've found in Louisiana: The voters want to know what you believe, what you stand for, and what you plan to do, not what shade your skin is.
‐‐ Bobby Jindal

Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

Here's what I've learned about eating healthy when you're busy: It's all about preparation. Make your snacks on Sunday, and you will be good to go until Thursday or so.
‐‐ Summer Sanders

Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.
‐‐ Kenny Rogers

Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days. I was an assistant professor at a good college at Delhi University, but I found it very political, very suffocating. At the age of 23, you're not very tolerant of those things.
‐‐ Amit Bhatia

Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're not good ones. And then you'll follow through with a handful of them and sometimes you'll be pretty disappointed. And then other times you'll follow through and you'll go, 'You know what? It's nice to be right.'
‐‐ Max Greenfield

Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster.
‐‐ Richard Preston

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.
‐‐ Janeane Garofalo

Here's what we should be doing. We should be monitoring every mosque. We should be monitoring social media. We've got about three million Muslims in the United States.
‐‐ Paul Nehlen

Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

Here's where I'm different from a senator. We pass continuing resolutions. We pass appropriations bills.
‐‐ Kevin Cramer

Here's where the insurance companies really fail us. They over-pay hospitals, specialists and drug companies and then raise premiums to cover the costs. Further, when they pay hospitals 115% of what it should cost to care for a patient, they are paying for inefficiency that can be dangerous.
‐‐ Alex Gibney

Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders.
‐‐ James Dobson

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
‐‐ Alexander Hamilton

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.
‐‐ Francis Parkman

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.
‐‐ Georg C. Lichtenberg