All Quotes

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'
‐‐ Norman Schwarzkopf

Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.'
‐‐ Hugh Hefner

Someone once described entrepreneurship to me as a series of happy accidents.
‐‐ Kevin Systrom

Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Someone once described me as the Zelig of comedy, and I think I know what he means.
‐‐ Arthur Smith

Someone once pointed out that there are quite a lot of animals in my books, and I'm sure that is something to do with 'The Wind in the Willows.' I must have picked up a rather anthropomorphic view of them.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.
‐‐ Nick Frost

Someone once referred to modeling as being like winning the lottery gene pool. It's such an odd way to put things, but what is different about modelling is that the industry often picks you.
‐‐ Erin O'Connor

Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
‐‐ Dakota Fanning

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
‐‐ Paul Wolfowitz

Someone once said that life is what happens while we are making other plans. I now know what that means.
‐‐ Charlie Bell

Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don't know who that's attributed to. I think it's Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great.
‐‐ Tina Fey

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
‐‐ Kate Beckinsale

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck

Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.
‐‐ Jack Dangermond

Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it's a really good thing to remember.
‐‐ Ginni Rometty

Someone once told me I'm a sore winner, and they're right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I'm moving on and looking for the next challenge.
‐‐ Eli Broad

Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.
‐‐ Jane Velez-Mitchell

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
‐‐ Alfred Hitchcock

Someone once told me that if you respect a person, listen to their opinion. And if you do not respect someone, then do not listen to their opinion. And that works both ways.
‐‐ Maisie Williams

Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And it's true, wherever you go.
‐‐ Benh Zeitlin

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
‐‐ Vera Farmiga

Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.
‐‐ Victoria Justice

Someone once told me that the most dynamic actors are people who have stories. People who have lived life. People with experiences.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Chriqui

Someone once told me they didn't like taking the lid off the kettle because they'd just lose it in the kitchen, so we made a kettle with an attached lid that you slide. It was in response to that that we made one that did something different.
‐‐ Michael Graves

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.
‐‐ Mia Wasikowska

Someone once told me we have in our minds who we want, and often those aren't the people we actually want. Like, once there was a girl I thought was perfect for me - I had every box checked with her. But I just didn't feel anything.
‐‐ Ansel Elgort

Someone outed me when I was 20, and I thought, 'Well, that's out there now...' Nobody made a massive fuss because I wasn't very well known.
‐‐ Russell Tovey

Someone pays me a hundred bucks every Tuesday to DJ. I don't think I'll ever give that up.
‐‐ Shannyn Sossamon

Someone putting down $25 of his or her hard-earned money to buy my product, then doing it again because they felt the payoff was worth it. That's as good as it gets for an author.
‐‐ Brad Thor

Someone recently asked what I am most proud of. The thing I'm most proud of is that I'm in my 50s and I'm still a leading lady.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.
‐‐ Dhani Harrison

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.
‐‐ Cliff Richard

Someone remarked that the newspapers or the news magazines are the same as the psalms except that the names changed in the stories. Maybe you can't understand the psalms without understanding the newspaper and the other way around.
‐‐ Corita Kent

Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
‐‐ Victoria Justice

Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.
‐‐ Rachel Roy

Someone's going to be able to take good care of my sister. She knows how to be taken care of.
‐‐ Trai Byers

Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.
‐‐ Ani DiFranco

Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?
‐‐ Steve Guttenberg

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.
‐‐ Brooke Shields

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.
‐‐ Allison Janney

Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.
‐‐ Elsa Maxwell

Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say, 'Well, I'm just going to take this conversation we're having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that's the joke. You're the joke later.'
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.
‐‐ Cy Coleman

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.
‐‐ Geri Halliwell

Someone that I'm really inspired by, and that I look up to, is Oprah. It's amazing how she created such an empire.
‐‐ Eugenie Bouchard

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
‐‐ Miles Franklin

Someone told me a woman bought a dog so she could take it to the same park where I go running, but I'm hoping that's rubbish.
‐‐ Richard C. Armitage