All Quotes

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.
‐‐ Harry Reasoner

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.
‐‐ Frank Luntz

If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.
‐‐ Keith Emerson

If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.
‐‐ Casey Abrams

If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.
‐‐ Ed Gillespie

If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.
‐‐ Andy Summers

If you're a guy who's always been the fun-to-be-around teddy bear, then all of a sudden people are viewing you as sexy, it's nice. It's great not having to be the plucky best friend or the comic relief anymore - I love that.
‐‐ Adam Richman

If you're a guy, you should get girls flowers all the time. They never get old and you can never get them enough. I'm never disappointed when I get flowers. I always thought guys who don't buy women flowers are such fools. All it takes is one. A little goes a long way with flowers.
‐‐ Alison Brie

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.
‐‐ Philip Seymour Hoffman

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.
‐‐ Errol Morris

If you're a journalist, and you want to see live photos happening at any location in our system, you can simply type in the location, and up comes the page.
‐‐ Kevin Systrom

If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security.
‐‐ Steve McFadden

If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.
‐‐ Danny Bonaduce

If you're a kid, it's all you think about if you stutter. Kids can be so mean. My grades suffered. Class participation weighs heavy in grading, and I wouldn't open my mouth to read or talk in front of anyone.
‐‐ Kenyon Martin

If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high.
‐‐ John Kricfalusi

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.
‐‐ Katherine Paterson

If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.
‐‐ Jim McKay

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
‐‐ Larry Wall

If you're a lay person listening to jazz, you don't necessarily understand everything that's happening within the form. But you get the sense of it, the feel of it, because you're getting to hear something that develops right in front of your face.
‐‐ Jason Moran

If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you're too unhip.' If you're a supporting actor, you can just work forever.
‐‐ Gilbert Gottfried

If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at the lead singer, even if you don't want them to - in America, they have those massive follow spots on you all the time; it does your head in. So, if you are a lead singer and you don't toughen up, you're in the wrong job, and you have to get out.
‐‐ Bernard Sumner

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.
‐‐ Laura Schlessinger

If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.
‐‐ Susan Bysiewicz

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.
‐‐ Martine McCutcheon

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.
‐‐ David Gest

If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.
‐‐ Kirk Gibson

If you're a member of my family, whether immediate or extended, and you want to see my show, don't.
‐‐ Chelsea Handler

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

If you're a model, you're paid to be a muse.
‐‐ Lindsey Wixson

If you're a model, you're supposed to know how to walk, aren't you?
‐‐ Lindsey Wixson

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
‐‐ Michael Caine

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.
‐‐ John Cusack

If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life.
‐‐ Michael Caine

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
‐‐ Siobhan Fahey

If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?
‐‐ Shawn Fanning

If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.
‐‐ Cynthia Robinson

If you're a musician, you're a musician; you don't ever get that out of your bones.
‐‐ Alex Clare

If you're a new artist, practice your art and share it. Set up shop somewhere, whether it's a street corner or a coffee shop. I got my start in a coffee shop that didn't even have live music. I wanted to play in coffee shops that did have live music, but I didn't have an audience.
‐‐ Jason Mraz

If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to open for a Norwegian writer.
‐‐ Per Petterson

If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.
‐‐ Franz Kline

If you're a person of faith that is conservative, that's pro-life, as I am, that believes strongly in traditional family values, as I do... then how we talk about them matters.
‐‐ Kevin Cramer

If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates.
‐‐ Bill Gates

If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.
‐‐ Bryan Cranston

If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

If you're a photographer, they give you a camera. If you're a writer, they give you a typewriter. If you're an umpire, they give you an unseen object and they call it a strike zone, and nobody seems to agree with you no matter what you call.
‐‐ Doug Harvey

If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.
‐‐ Ivar Giaever