All Quotes

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.
‐‐ Gore Verbinski

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'
‐‐ Gore Verbinski

My respect for Westerns have gone way, way up. It's hard and treacherous work. It's hard to find people these days who can ride horses like that and jump onto trains.
‐‐ Gore Verbinski

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.
‐‐ J. M. Coetzee

My responsibility as president is to take care to solve the problems we are facing now and to provide a vision and direction for how our nation should advance in the future.
‐‐ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.
‐‐ Trevor Huddleston

My responsibility is, I'm always trying to look for new people of color or even artistic people who need a chance.
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua

My responsibility is to ask, 'How can I serve my ideology and my voters?'
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

My responsibility is to make judgments about hard, complex issues that I believe to be right.
‐‐ Jeff Fortenberry

My responsibility is to present things in a way that is realistic and true to the multifaceted world I've known... This is how I think the world is, not how it should be.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine

My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows.
‐‐ Nile Rodgers

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
‐‐ John Green

My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige

My restaurant, Tex Wasabi's, we have a whole 'Minute to Win It' challenge going on on Sundays already. The show hasn't even aired and they're already doing challenges where people are coming and participating. I think it's going to take over.
‐‐ Guy Fieri

My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.
‐‐ Michael Symon

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
‐‐ Buffalo Bill

My resume is lean enough that I don't have the added baggage that is not necessary to be able to be successful in government.
‐‐ Grace Poe

My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.
‐‐ Edgardo Osorio

My retirement, back in 1976, began as a one-year boycott to challenge the media on that question. I refused to return until the media, and radio stations in particular, got a hold on identifiably Canadian songs.
‐‐ Stompin' Tom Connors

My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.
‐‐ Randolph Scott

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.
‐‐ Catherine Helen Spence

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
‐‐ Sara Blakely

My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
‐‐ Ted Danson

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

My right wrist is connected to the left foot. You know, if the left foot doesn't work, the right wrist doesn't work, and that's really the truth.
‐‐ Richie Havens

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.
‐‐ Gerrit Smith

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.
‐‐ Kenny Loggins

My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
‐‐ Iman

My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
‐‐ Tea Obreht

My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!
‐‐ Denzel Washington

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.
‐‐ Louis Freeh

My role as a novelist is to explore ideas and imagination, and hopefully that will inspire people from my world to continue dreaming and to believe in dreams.
‐‐ Alexis Wright

My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
‐‐ Natalie Dormer

My role at NBC was president of 'NBC News.' I had that role for eight years.
‐‐ Steve Capus

My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.
‐‐ Floyd Abrams

My role in kung fu - in the art of kung fu, not the series - is not as a practitioner. My role is that of an evangelist, which is an entirely different thing.
‐‐ David Carradine

My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played.
‐‐ Alanna Ubach

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
‐‐ John Lennon

My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.
‐‐ Cass Elliot

My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'
‐‐ Hamilton Jordan

My role is Katara: in 'The Last Airbender,' I'm a water bender from the southern water tribe, and my character is really strong but also loving.
‐‐ Nicola Peltz

My role is not so much to lobby but be a sounding board for people. That's a more effective place for me to be.
‐‐ Bob Corker

My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both.
‐‐ Geoff Hoon

My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
‐‐ Edie Campbell

My role is to just tell the highest degree of truth with every character and every story. From there, I have no clue whatsoever how things are going to turn out.
‐‐ Sarah Shahi

My role is to try to remove the impediments to entrepreneurs' chance to succeed. It's about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding.
‐‐ Jerry Moran