All Quotes

I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
‐‐ Nathan Fielder

I auditioned for the part of Cosette in 'Les Miserables' on Broadway. It didn't work out.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.
‐‐ Nicole Kidman

I auditioned for the role of Jamie Mitchell in 'EastEnders,' and it was between me and Jack Ryder, and he got it.
‐‐ Russell Tovey

I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.
‐‐ Daisy Ridley

I auditioned for 'West Side Story' and got the part of Tony, but wasn't allowed to do it. They needed me to play trumpet. But I was glad, in the end, because I learned a lot about playing that score.
‐‐ Stephen Costello

I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
‐‐ Adam Driver

I auditioned just for fun.
‐‐ Clay Aiken

I auditioned nine times for 'Delhi Belly,' and it was torturous!
‐‐ Vir Das

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.
‐‐ Kate Hudson

I authored the Universal National Service Act because I believe that everyone in America should contribute to the greater good of America.
‐‐ Charles B. Rangel

I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess.
‐‐ Shaquille O'Neal

I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.
‐‐ Tim Conway

I avoid any kind of organised trips as that's one of my bugbears.
‐‐ Johnny Vegas

I avoid banks and I've never been in any sort of corporate environment at all.
‐‐ Jodie Whittaker

I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.
‐‐ David Ogilvy

I avoid conflict - like, any conflict - at all costs. I hate it. Even at a restaurant, if I get the wrong order, I'll just eat it anyway because I don't want to make an issue.
‐‐ Robin Lord Taylor

I avoid crazy women.
‐‐ Jeremy London

I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.
‐‐ Martin Parr

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.
‐‐ Loretta Lynn

I avoid listening to too many people's comments about my script. I have learned to take in what is of use. It's too frustrating looking at somebody's notes who didn't get what you were doing. If somebody says, 'This stinks, and here are all the reasons,' that's not going to help you.
‐‐ Melissa Mathison

I avoid looking in the mirror.
‐‐ Marina Warner

I avoid my neighbors - luckily, my building has two exits.
‐‐ Lynn Samuels

I avoid preset sounds wherever possible, and all the sounds I use I have edited.
‐‐ Rick Wakeman

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
‐‐ Horace Walpole

I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.
‐‐ Georgie Fame

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
‐‐ David Hockney

I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the floor, reading 'Gossip Girl.'
‐‐ Cecily von Ziegesar

I avoid watching other people's versions of films or plays that I work on.
‐‐ Billy Crudup

I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be, there is a snickering yet nun-terrorized 12-year-old-boy inside me who would at some point be certain to grab the reins in his hairy palms.
‐‐ Lynn Coady

I avoided as much work as possible in the classroom, but did all the work possible on the ball field.
‐‐ Chuck Klein

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.
‐‐ Greta Scacchi

I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day.
‐‐ Steve Vai

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
‐‐ Harold Brodkey

I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.
‐‐ Mike McCue

I.B.M. was not really bringing their best technologies to India. They were dumping old machines in the country that had been thrown away in the rest of the world 10 years before.
‐‐ Azim Premji

I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
‐‐ Kate Micucci

I back people who I think will be seeking help and advice. These are the best entrepreneurs.
‐‐ Audrey MacLean

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.
‐‐ John Muir

I bake a chocolate cake from scratch every week.
‐‐ Victoria Osteen

I bake bread nearly every day; I use Jim Lahey's no-knead method and leave it to rise overnight.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.
‐‐ Sally Mann

I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.
‐‐ Bridgette Wilson

I balance my hormones with bioidentical hormones, I eat organic, I take supplements as determined by lab work, I sleep eight hours nightly, I use organic cosmetics and green household cleaners, and I avoid toxins as best I can.
‐‐ Suzanne Somers

I balance my meals. I have never been a big dessert guy.
‐‐ Robert Herjavec

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.
‐‐ Paul Auster

I barely ever watch TV, but when I do, I usually only watch MTV shows, like 'The Real World Sydney.'
‐‐ Ryan Sheckler

I barely finish one pre-collection before I must start on another. Sales start, but I am already elsewhere creatively. The men's show is being prepared, but we also need to think about accessories, perfumes and other items. In sum, I never stop.
‐‐ Alber Elbaz

I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!'
‐‐ Jamie Lee Curtis