All Quotes

I figure it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy; if I make a successful arena rock record, I'll wind up playing arenas! I wouldn't mind being back in that kind of venue because of the kinds of things you can do with production. You can make your shows more interesting, which would be fun to do.
‐‐ Todd Rundgren

I figure it's a European thing to eat cheese and crackers before a meal - that's my afternoon snack, or I do it before dinner.
‐‐ Andrew Luck

I figure it's almost like a balance. We're eating these wonderful collard greens and turnip greens which are so medicinally good for you and, OK, so what if it has a little ham hock in it?
‐‐ Paula Deen

I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.
‐‐ Alan Cox

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
‐‐ Utada Hikaru

I figure out who I'm playing opposite, and I really do study them.
‐‐ Tisha Campbell-Martin

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
‐‐ A. E. van Vogt

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
‐‐ Lance Armstrong

I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.
‐‐ John Forsythe

I figure there's no point in stressing about what's out of my control, and all I can do is make the best of what I've got.
‐‐ Joel Parkinson

I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
‐‐ Nalo Hopkinson

I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.
‐‐ Candace Cameron Bure

I figure when you get married, it doesn't matter how much you earn or how much your husband earns, just as long as everything you do for the house is together, while still reserving some part of yourself to be yourself.
‐‐ Marta Kristen

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
‐‐ Fran Lebowitz

I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction.
‐‐ Tim Conway

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.
‐‐ Kathleen Turner

I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'
‐‐ Don Cornelius

I figured being fat was my destiny.
‐‐ Ron Lester

I figured I could do 'It's A Man's Man's Man's World', because I believe it's the truth.
‐‐ Etta James

I figured I would always be a candidate for man of the year in the virtue-is-its-own-reward category. What that did was force me to concentrate on the work.
‐‐ Alan Furst

I figured, 'If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I'll only do it if I got to do it how I want.' So my contract is structured in such a way that I'm really protected.
‐‐ Regina Spektor

I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself.
‐‐ Elizabeth Pena

I figured if I was eccentric looking in Indiana, people would think, 'What is he selling? Let's look in his case.'
‐‐ Ty Warner

I figured if I write a modern thriller but spliced in the DNA of a classic western - the drifter who comes into town with secrets - I could do something interesting with both genres. Westerns are also an incarnation of the classic knight errant tale, the lone warrior with a moral code, and I love those types of stories.
‐‐ Simon Toyne

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.
‐‐ Matthew Sweet

I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can.
‐‐ John T. Walton

I figured managing people was obvious - I'd tell someone what they needed to do and they'd do what I wanted. It turns out that's not the case. It was frustrating at first.
‐‐ Jon Oringer

I figured most of the best actors around 20 years old would all be at drama school, where they're tied up and contractually can't work, so I saw there must be a gap in the market for a young actor like me.
‐‐ Matt Milne

I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.
‐‐ Lee Majors

I figured my wife was about to start law school. If that whole baseball pitching thing didn't work out, I had something to fall back on. I figure I'd put a ring on her finger. Turns out she was the smart one. Turns out she was the gold digger, not me.
‐‐ Tim Hudson

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
‐‐ T Bone Burnett

I figured out how to catch fugitives without a gun.
‐‐ John Walsh

I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.
‐‐ Thomas Kretschmann

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.
‐‐ Joan Jett

I figured out something spiritual. Billboard this: 'Life is supposed to be fun!'
‐‐ Jenny McCarthy

I figured out 'The Sixth Sense' in the first 10 minutes. I still found the movie touching.
‐‐ Allen Coulter

I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'
‐‐ John Sayles

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali

I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.
‐‐ Christopher Atkins

I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.
‐‐ Dwight Gooden

I figured the people who liked the sort of thing I was doing would come see it. If it was only 200 then that was alright and if it was 2000 then that is alright as well. I wasn't really interested in the big numbers; I was just interested in some numbers.
‐‐ George Thorogood

I figured there's nobody who's going to beat me or shoot me or crucify me. I can't help if people don't like me up there in Washington. I've got a district that I respect, and I think it respects me.
‐‐ Ralph Hall

I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.
‐‐ John Sayles

I figured, 'Why not go into entertainment?' I love entertaining people. I always loved being extra loud.
‐‐ Becky G

I figured, 'Why not put goggle characteristics like peripheral protection and face fit into sunglasses?'
‐‐ James Jannard

I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.
‐‐ Dick Gephardt

I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.
‐‐ Chris Bell

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
‐‐ Barney Frank

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.
‐‐ Hume Cronyn

I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo