All Quotes

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.
‐‐ Ali MacGraw

If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic

If you're a balanced cartoonist, you're not a cartoonist. You definitely have to have a bias.
‐‐ Jeff MacNelly

If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.
‐‐ Kim Kardashian

If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
‐‐ Oscar Robertson

If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you've waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass.
‐‐ Edmund White

If you're a believer, God is not a thought-experiment requiring a special sub-creation to be tried out in. He's an actual, er, actuality already, embedded in a necessary and true story about guilt, hope, and liberty. I don't want C. S. Lewis doing his resourceful best to render Him as a fabulous special effect.
‐‐ Francis Spufford

If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don't get bodyguards or alarm systems.
‐‐ Mark Fuhrman

If you're a big Hollywood star, you make one movie a year at the most. I can make five in Europe.
‐‐ Franco Nero

If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents.
‐‐ Frances Bean Cobain

If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.
‐‐ Timothy Dalton

If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of?
‐‐ Mary McCormack

If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.
‐‐ Louis C. K.

If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
‐‐ Rafe Spall

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.
‐‐ Chris Evert

If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

If you're a Christian you don't sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if they're happy and they're committed in a relationship.
‐‐ Howard Stern

If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.
‐‐ Carl Paladino

If you're a classical actor, every Shakespearean part you play, you then say, 'McKellen did it this way,' and, 'Jacobi did it this way.' There's a whole list of Oliviers and people, whether you play Hamlet or Richard II or Richard III, any of those roles. And I found that a bit when I did 'La Cage.' It didn't bother me one bit.
‐‐ Douglas Hodge

If you're a coach, and you don't have trust with players, you've got no chance, and your credibility is zero. And that's why it's so important to tell them the truth. If you have something that you're upset about, tell them the truth. If they're doing something wrong, tell them the truth.
‐‐ Tony La Russa

If you're a coach, you've got to have a lot of confidence in what you're doing. Your egos are so large that you know it all anyway if you're a coach.
‐‐ Bud Grant

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.
‐‐ Rob Brydon

If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written lots of material, but how do you memorise 90 minutes? That's one hell of a long speech. I've always had problems with that.
‐‐ Dylan Moran

If you're a commodity corn farmer in Iowa, you're locked into an infrastructure that keeps you a commodity corn farmer.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk

If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
‐‐ Magic Johnson

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?
‐‐ Ken Kesey

If you're a content brand, you have to be in every place your audience is. Sometimes your audience is on the couch and wants to watch a 30-minute show, and sometimes they're checking their Facebook feed and want to see something that's only a minute long.
‐‐ Ricky Van Veen

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.
‐‐ Tinashe

If you're a Democrat and 'The New York Times' is calling for your head, you know it's time for an exit strategy.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
‐‐ Ozwald Boateng

If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also live in.
‐‐ Dasha Zhukova

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.
‐‐ Trevor Nunn

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.
‐‐ Jamie Moyer

If you're a doctor, what do you promise to do? First, do no harm. If your operating philosophy is do no harm, that's not a call to imagination. Not only that, if I'm a patient, I don't want your imagination. I want what works.
‐‐ Jay S. Walker

If you're a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I'm watching, you know, Netherlands soccer.
‐‐ Michael Keaton

If you're a fan of Shirley MacLaine just like I am, I'd kinda go anywhere to work with her.
‐‐ Scott Bakula

If you're a fan, you can appreciate everything I say.
‐‐ Lucas Till

If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse for it, so you have to work out a way of dealing with it. The best way is to be humorous about it - that defuses any tension.
‐‐ Jo Brand

If you're a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it's kind of exciting.
‐‐ Norah Jones

If you're a film studio, you're making a movie for a foreign market. You're pursuing ideas that travel well. It changes the movies we see and how movies are made.
‐‐ Anita Elberse

If you're a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, 'Oh, I could have done so much better,' that's not much fun, is it, really? You might as well go pick another profession if that really is how you derive satisfaction from it.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

If you're a Firefox user, you get accustomed to your history and the URL bar and finding things. That should be available on your mobile phone as well.
‐‐ Mitchell Baker

If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.
‐‐ Dan Jenkins

If you're a game company, you want to create a singular gaming experience, and part of that is doing stuff that nobody else is doing. If you're trying to create a game that feels different, you're going to create a lead that feels different. It's not going to be just another white guy.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

If you're a girl, you're always Daddy's little girl. You're vulnerable, no matter how worldly or sophisticated or strong you'd become along the way. My dad Lionel let me know how proud he was, even as he kept me from being too big for my britches.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

If you're a global company you are going to have jobs overseas. The reality is if we start taxing those jobs at a rate that makes them noncompetitive in those markets, the reality is that we're going to lose business.
‐‐ Anne M. Mulcahy

If you're a goal scorer, you have to have a certain attitude. I'm very serious. My missus thinks I'm a bit weird. I'm cold, I don't have many emotions. It's very rare I cry.
‐‐ Michael Owen

If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with - if you keep it out, it's not a goal.
‐‐ Mark Lawrenson

If you're a good Amish girl, you're courting, you have three or four different beaus, and you go out and stay out all night. That's just their tradition. They date under the covering of night. No one knows who they're dating or seeing until two weeks before they're going to be married. It's how they've done it for 300 years.
‐‐ Beverly Lewis

If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn