All Quotes

I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the distilling down and the getting to the core of what it is that you care about and what you want to say, really.
‐‐ Mike Leigh

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.
‐‐ Tiger Woods

I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.
‐‐ Tim McGraw

I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things that went out of style 30 years ago. As things go around, they come around.
‐‐ Steven Tyler

I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do.
‐‐ Duncan Sheik

I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.
‐‐ Billy Sherwood

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.
‐‐ Anthony Michael Hall

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.
‐‐ Al Alvarez

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.
‐‐ Joe Mantegna

I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.
‐‐ David Miliband

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.
‐‐ Anthony Holden

I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.
‐‐ Bette Midler

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.
‐‐ Sydney Pollack

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
‐‐ Sydney Pollack

I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything.
‐‐ Bill Bruford

I mean, come on: At the end of the day, we're all bisexual. A hundred years from now, there's not gonna be gay or straight. There's gonna be everything.
‐‐ Nicholas Stoller

I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.
‐‐ Darren Criss

I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.
‐‐ Matt Lucas

I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.
‐‐ Zachary Knighton

I mean, coming into this season I was just hoping to come back, stay healthy and help the team.
‐‐ Johan Santana

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.
‐‐ Morrissey

I mean do women like to get the crap scared out of them at the movies? Sure. Of course.
‐‐ Jerry O'Connell

I mean, do you really think Paul Krugman is checking his Twitter account every day to read what I write? Of course not. Every other day maybe, but not every day.
‐‐ Michael Showalter

I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance.
‐‐ Rick Perry

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
‐‐ Harold Pinter

I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.
‐‐ John Entwistle

I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.
‐‐ Patty Hearst

I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.
‐‐ Clare Short

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.
‐‐ Joan Collins

I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners on it. And you don't want your novels to be mannered.
‐‐ Colum McCann

I mean, every single time I was there with Mahesh, I just tried to learn something of his game, because he's, you know, one of the best doubles players that's been around ever.
‐‐ Daniela Hantuchova

I mean, every Star Trek episode you saw was just phenomenal.
‐‐ Persis Khambatta

I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
‐‐ Anne Carson

I mean everybody's got ex-boyfriends and girlfriends. Everybody's got baggage.
‐‐ Nina Dobrev

I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.
‐‐ Susan Sullivan

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.
‐‐ Paul Farmer

I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.
‐‐ Arthur Laffer

I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.
‐‐ Richard Schiff

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.
‐‐ Patrick Macnee

I mean, everyone walks into the gym on day one skinny or fat. Arnold Schwarzenegger walked into the gym skinny at 15 or 16, and I was that way, too.
‐‐ Joe Manganiello

I mean, families are weird.
‐‐ Gordon Ramsay

I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.
‐‐ Chad Harbach

I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.
‐‐ Christian Bale

I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?
‐‐ Paul Begala

I mean, for me, the reason I ride my bike and race is because I love doing it, not because I'm seeking recognition for it.
‐‐ Lizzie Armitstead

I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.
‐‐ Andrew Stanton

I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.
‐‐ Pat Robertson

I mean, 'Girls': I love 'Girls,' I watch 'Girls.' But it's a show that's very coastal. People in New York and people in L.A. and people in San Francisco will watch it. But I think in Middle America, for the most part, it probably isn't watched as much.
‐‐ Jeremy Allen White