All Quotes

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?
‐‐ Brad Pitt

I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.
‐‐ Charles Dance

I photograph artists, and some of them are very well known, but if you ask the average man on the street, 'Do you like Anselm Kiefer?' He would stare at you with a blank stare, because these are not celebrities. They are celebrated in a specific circle.
‐‐ Anton Corbijn

I photograph different people all the time. I like to shoot all kinds of people.
‐‐ Nigel Barker

I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look.
‐‐ Martin Parr

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
‐‐ Man Ray

I photograph wealth.
‐‐ Martin Parr

I photographed all kinds of sports - Formula 1, Formula Atlantic. And anybody who knows me knows that, from the day they invented video cameras, I used to lug them around when you had to carry the pack here and the big camera here, plus the diaper bag and a baby and the purse or whatever.
‐‐ Christie Brinkley

I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.
‐‐ Kim Weston

I photographed with film for many years; now that I work in digital, the difference is enormous. The quality is unbelievable: I don't use flash, and with digital I can even work in very bad light. Also, it's a relief not to lose photographs to x-ray machines in airports.
‐‐ Sebastiao Salgado

I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
‐‐ Action Bronson

I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.
‐‐ Martin McDonagh

I pick apart everyone's pantries. They think I'm super-annoying.
‐‐ Kourtney Kardashian

I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.
‐‐ Elizabeth Arden

I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
‐‐ Madhur Bhandarkar

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
‐‐ Robert Burns

I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.
‐‐ Justin Timberlake

I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.
‐‐ D. W. Griffith

I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.
‐‐ Steve Fossett

I pick the wrong kinds of guys, but they're so hot.
‐‐ Kate Hudson

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.
‐‐ Jason Statham

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.
‐‐ Santigold

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.
‐‐ Glen Hansard

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
‐‐ Oscar Niemeyer

I pick up on other people's discomfort.
‐‐ Carice van Houten

I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming.
‐‐ George Clinton

I pick up other people's trash. I'm sort of obsessed.
‐‐ Eric Close

I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
‐‐ Indra Nooyi

I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.
‐‐ George Crumb

I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.
‐‐ Jamaica Kincaid

I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.
‐‐ Otis Rush

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.
‐‐ Bo Bice

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
‐‐ Ahmet Zappa

I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.
‐‐ Dustin Lynch

I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and the little living room in our little apartment there, and I'd skin my deer, and all the guts would go in the tub, and I'd sneak them out so my fellow students on both sides wouldn't see all that, you know. I'd clean fish up there and all.
‐‐ Phil Robertson

I picked economics at the end of my undergraduate time because it seemed to be a really nice combination of theory, including mathematical theory on one hand, and things that are quite practical that you can touch and see and feel. So I picked it, and I consciously thought of it as an experiment to see if I liked it. And it worked.
‐‐ Michael Spence

I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.
‐‐ Jack Canfield

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Stone Gossard

I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.
‐‐ Sam Barry

I picked up an issue of Cosmopolitan the other day that had tips for job interviews, because I was like, 'I need to get better at interviews.' The article was basically about how to get someone not to hate you in 20 minutes. Every single thing they told you not to do, I was like, 'I do that every day.'
‐‐ Jennifer Lawrence

I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
‐‐ Gail Collins

I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me.
‐‐ John Updike

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.
‐‐ Lee Pace

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.
‐‐ Kim Gordon

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.
‐‐ Tracy Chapman

I picked up the guitar at 12 yrs old - basically, my mother and father bought it for me for Christmas. I played one at my friend's house; when I say played it, I just played around with it at my friend's house. It just struck me as something I really wanted.
‐‐ Greg Lake

I picked up the guitar very late, in a very pagan way - I didn't know how to play, but I knew I had to. I drew and I had a diary, but it wasn't enough; I needed to express more. As soon as I learned two notes, I started to tell a story, which is why, I guess, my music resembles blues or folk.
‐‐ Lou Doillon

I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
‐‐ Nate Ruess

I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.
‐‐ Deborah Cox

I picked up the phone and called Herbert Hainer, the CEO of Adidas, and said, 'Well, it's Peace Day coming up. I think it's about time after 60 years to end this feud. How about doing something together?'
‐‐ Jochen Zeitz