All Quotes

My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.
‐‐ Gerard Depardieu

My only non-acting job was being a barista at Coffee Bean. While I was in college, and I had a blast! I loved making drinks because I got to be like a mad scientist.
‐‐ Troian Bellisario

My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.
‐‐ Georges Rouault

My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.
‐‐ Jude Law

My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.
‐‐ Aaron Schock

My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.
‐‐ Norman Wisdom

My only plan every day is to get up and go to work, work hard and come back home. And whatever else needs to happen in my life will come in its own time.
‐‐ Katrina Kaif

My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
‐‐ Barbara Stanwyck

My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.
‐‐ Shane Warne

My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they brought in a generation of comic book fans who would have paid to have written these stories.
‐‐ Alan Moore

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
‐‐ Sherman Alexie

My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I've always learnt by watching what other people do. It's the same with my writing. I write what I know. Structurally, I write in a very undisciplined way.
‐‐ Colman Domingo

My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.
‐‐ Vera Farmiga

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.
‐‐ Philip Pullman

My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died, 'Horse & Hound' magazine tipped me as a future Olympic champion, and I took it seriously. You can only really enjoy something if you take it seriously.
‐‐ Jonathan Dimbleby

My only real contact with what my father did was that he could get 16-millimeter prints, so every weekend we would show two or three movies at home. But our house wasn't frequented by stars. My father's personal life was his personal life, and it was separate from his professional life.
‐‐ Stanley R. Jaffe

My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.
‐‐ Graeme Base

My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
‐‐ Kajol

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
‐‐ Armistead Maupin

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.
‐‐ Perry Como

My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.
‐‐ Jonathan Coe

My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.
‐‐ Ken Livingstone

My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.
‐‐ Malin Akerman

My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in.
‐‐ Phil Foglio

My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I just happen to think that with Hamilton's story, sticking close to the facts helps me. All the most interesting things in the show happened.
‐‐ Lin-Manuel Miranda

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
‐‐ Augusten Burroughs

My only rule: I never photographed the face of the dead, ever, out of respect for the families.
‐‐ David Douglas Duncan

My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in.
‐‐ Phil Collins

My only scheme was to be a rapper.
‐‐ Eminem

My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like to hug. And I also like to be hugged.
‐‐ Teresa Heinz

My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.
‐‐ Gail Collins

My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.
‐‐ Mercedes McCambridge

My only vice is 'Keeping up With The Kardashians.' I can't really explain what it is that fascinates me so much, but it just sucks me in.
‐‐ Gia Coppola

My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
‐‐ Becky G

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.
‐‐ Francisco Goldman

My only weapon is the question.
‐‐ Jorge Ramos

My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.'
‐‐ Joseph Murray

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.
‐‐ Denis Leary

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
‐‐ David Hockney

My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.
‐‐ Karen O

My opening acts are always really strong because I need a guy who can take on a big, big crowd. Which is not that easy to do.
‐‐ Ron White

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
‐‐ Harrison Birtwistle

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
‐‐ Harrison Birtwistle

My opinion about myself is so based on what other people think of me.
‐‐ Marc Jacobs

My opinion can be completely different after a show.
‐‐ Karl Lagerfeld

My opinion, having done this now for two cycles, is I think the national media really likes me and likes what I have to say. But, at the end of the day, 'He's a Libertarian,' and that denotes some loose screws, maybe.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
‐‐ Elon Musk