All Quotes

It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
‐‐ D. W. Griffith

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.
‐‐ Jerry Seinfeld

It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.
‐‐ Buddy Rich

It takes us many years to learn that the passion for justice and the welfare of all, once it has been aroused, is the deepest one in moral life.
‐‐ Austin Clarke

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
‐‐ Owen D. Young

It takes years for me to trust; I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.
‐‐ Michelle Pfeiffer

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.
‐‐ Donnie Yen

It takes years to realize the multiple benefits of science; without adequate, sustained funding for research, the careers of many bright, young scientists may come to a screeching halt.
‐‐ Carol W. Greider

It taught me something. It taught you your craft.
‐‐ Billy Eckstine

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.
‐‐ Paul Begala

It teaches us how to run our lives individually. How to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all our public policy and everything in society. And that's the reason, as your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I'll continue to do that.
‐‐ Paul Broun

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.
‐‐ Maya Lin

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.
‐‐ Henry Charles Carey

It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not.
‐‐ Bill Bennett

It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause of religion generally.
‐‐ Louis Finkelstein

It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.
‐‐ George Steiner

It took 17 years to get 'Rambling Rose' made from the time Calder Willingham wrote the script adapted from his novel. Ed Scherick, the producer, was interested in it. Martha Coolidge was interested in directing it.
‐‐ Diane Ladd

It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot afford as a society to wait another 23 years to make sure that the patients get the right care, at the right time, at the right place.
‐‐ Patrick Soon-Shiong

It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.
‐‐ Johnny Olson

It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.
‐‐ Jules Shear

It took a catastrophe of socialized medicine to wake a lot of people up because it affects every single person in America, either directly or indirectly. That's when you get people's attention - when it directly affects them.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
‐‐ Lee Atwater

It took a generation for companies to recognise their responsibilities in terms of labour practices and another generation for them to recognise their environmental obligations.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

It took a generation of filmmakers who loved and were raised on comic books to make movies that you actually cared about and felt something for. I think that's absolutely the same with what's going on with videogame movies.
‐‐ Duncan Jones

It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies.
‐‐ Ron Wyden

It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.
‐‐ Piper Laurie

It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this.
‐‐ Robert Carlyle

It took a long time for me to have any impact in the business because I didn't look like an actor, I didn't sound like an actor.
‐‐ Brian Dennehy

It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.
‐‐ Sherry Stringfield

It took a long time to get that film made. I went in for it almost right after or like maybe six or seven months after I had my son and actually auditioned for the Regina King part and they just were like, 'No, you're just - you just don't really seem the part.'
‐‐ Nia Long

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Holland Taylor

It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.
‐‐ Rain Phoenix

It took a long while for me to know that I'm beautiful. I remember going through this phase when I was younger of wanting to pass by mirrors and not look at them. That was so ridiculous. I've learned now that beauty starts from within.
‐‐ Kelly Rowland

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
‐‐ Barack Obama

It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.
‐‐ Laura Marling

It took a lot of time to develop a healthier relationship with food and with my weight.
‐‐ Ronda Rousey

It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.
‐‐ Elisabeth Shue

It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes. You don't have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story; it's about what goes on inside your mind and soul.
‐‐ Etgar Keret

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.
‐‐ Conrad Hall

It took a while for the first 'Blade' to get made, and Marvel decided they liked the Whistler character so much, when Blade guest starred on the 'Spider-Man' cartoon, they put Whistler on the cartoon, and the movie hadn't come out yet.
‐‐ David S. Goyer

It took a while to adapt to life in London, but six months into my course at RADA, I felt very at home.
‐‐ Sean Bean

It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because they work the whole session and nothing happens.
‐‐ Richard Grimes

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.
‐‐ Susan Lucci

It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

It took Cianfrance 12 years to bring 'Blue Valentine' to the screen after he first conceived it. He found Gosling and Williams early on, and they hung in there with him. The film finally premiered at Sundance 2010, then screened at Cannes and the Toronto Film Festival before landing in theaters in December.
‐‐ Katie Hafner

It took five days to drive to Los Angeles by myself. I listened to Abbey Road for six hours at a time and watched the desert open up before me again and again. I saw the sun set and rise at the Grand Canyon, and I sang out over the cliffs, picked up tumble weeds along the way and threw them in the back of my car.
‐‐ Madi Diaz

It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time in radio, I had pretty non-traditional tasks.
‐‐ Ira Glass

It took forever for me to get work because I was a political comic, and now it's become good business, and God knows how long that'll last. You have to do it night after night after night to kind of make it. I still find myself on 'Piers Morgan' or on some show and I think, 'I hope this is funny.'
‐‐ Lewis Black

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.
‐‐ Ted Cruz