All Quotes

My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy.
‐‐ Josh Gad

My idol has been Franco Corelli. But every singer can teach you something.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
‐‐ Valerie Azlynn

My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe

My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.
‐‐ Don Knotts

My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will never be stick thin. I remember a shoot where I had to get into these tiny hot pants, and I thought, 'God, I wish I hadn't eaten.'
‐‐ Katherine Jenkins

My idols are all older.
‐‐ Kelly Lynch

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
‐‐ Natalie Cole

My idols are Oprah and Martha. From nothing, they built industries.
‐‐ Thalia

My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.
‐‐ Breckin Meyer

My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.
‐‐ Andra Day

My ignorance is widespread.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.
‐‐ Lee Atwater

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
‐‐ Laura Hillenbrand

My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.
‐‐ Andy Behrman

My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do.
‐‐ Artemisia Gentileschi

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.
‐‐ Monica Denise Brown

My image lends itself a little bit more to the modern fan, sometimes more toward the kids, and I guess more toward the wine drinkers... I mean, I have my own wine, and fans love to pull for people they relate to.
‐‐ Jeff Gordon

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.
‐‐ Grimes

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
‐‐ Clara Schumann

My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
‐‐ Kim Elizabeth

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
‐‐ Patricia Highsmith

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
‐‐ John Keats

My imagination is a twisted place.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.
‐‐ Mary Pope Osborne

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.
‐‐ Clive Barker

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
‐‐ Ursula K. Le Guin

My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better.
‐‐ Philip Schultz

My imagination was no competition for nature.
‐‐ Jim Toomey

My immediate family is real close-knit.
‐‐ Kenan Thompson

My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

My impact on the game was going out there and making things happen.
‐‐ Rickey Henderson

My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.
‐‐ Joel Salatin

My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children.
‐‐ Jonas Gahr Store

My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.
‐‐ Gerhard Schroder

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.
‐‐ Frances O'Grady

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
‐‐ Boyd Rice

My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective.
‐‐ Robert Ripley

My impression was, 'This Hollywood thing doesn't seem too hard.'
‐‐ Joel Kinnaman

My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when I showed deep sympathy. My second period is one of disappointment. This change was the result of close observation on the spot.
‐‐ Chiang Kai-shek

My improv definitely shows a different side of myself, which is more true to what my real humor is and what my real personality is, and I think - I guess 'wild' is a good word for it. I'm still sweet! But I won't let anyone walk all over me.
‐‐ Lauren Lapkus

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.
‐‐ Mike White

My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs board game or to inaugurate the walkway of their new office atrium. There's even a microbrewery in Barcelona which wants to know what my favourite beer is so they can brew a similar one in my honour. It is quite mad.
‐‐ Peter Higgs

My inbox is now bulging with touching emails from young women scientists who have been kind enough to write and thank me for inspiring them and helping them on their way. It has also been of great comfort to me to see many women at the top of science testifying for my record in supporting women scientists.
‐‐ Tim Hunt

My inbox is the enemy.
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.
‐‐ Tommy Chong

My indie work is mostly reality-based, focused on real life and characters.
‐‐ Jeff Lemire