All Quotes

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.
‐‐ Javier Bardem

The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained.
‐‐ Robbie Coltrane

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
‐‐ Bob Barr

The backseat produced the sexual revolution.
‐‐ Jerry Rubin

The backstage play, in which the private lives of theater people are put onstage for the world to see, is one of the diciest of dramatic genres.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
‐‐ Paris Hilton

The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.
‐‐ Frances O'Grady

The bad boy: always more fun.
‐‐ Ian McShane

The bad boy image is something given to me by the media. I have been in relationships earlier, even for as long as three years. I am not saying I am a saint. I am like any other guy, I guess. Unfortunately, every time I even meet a person, it is reported as a link-up.
‐‐ Yuvraj Singh

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.
‐‐ Russell Brand

The bad boys get all the best lines.
‐‐ Ian McShane

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

The bad experiences make you stronger and makes you focus on the next project.
‐‐ Thalia

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

The bad guy always gets the best scene and the best lines in the film, and they usually get the most days off.
‐‐ Richard Dreyfuss

The bad guy in any good storytelling is always, in some weird way, a mirror for your hero's journey and for the challenges that they are facing and is some weird physical externalization of that fear that the character is holding onto and has to overcome.
‐‐ Alex Kurtzman

The bad guys always fight dirty, and the good guys always fight clean.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina

The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.
‐‐ Jan de Bont

The bad guys are the best parts.
‐‐ Brion James

The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. Their language isn't very colorful, and they don't talk with any certain sound.
‐‐ Elmore Leonard

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
‐‐ Sam Waterston

The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.
‐‐ Henry Czerny

The bad guys probably get the better lines, don't they? And they wear less spandex. That would be quite good.
‐‐ David Tennant

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
‐‐ John Rawls

The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.
‐‐ Alastair Campbell

The bad news in our most cosmopolitan and vibrant cities is that many middle-class people can no longer afford to live in 'middle-class' school districts.
‐‐ Sandra Tsing Loh

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
‐‐ Jessica Savitch

The bad news is that my thin melanoma has something called mitosis, which means the cancer cells are dividing and multiplying even as I write. My thin melanoma has already spread outside of the tumor and into the deep layers of skin.
‐‐ Jane Green

The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.
‐‐ Javier Bardem

The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
‐‐ R. Lee Ermey

The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.
‐‐ Paul Prudhomme

The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.
‐‐ Pete Townshend

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
‐‐ Edward Dahlberg

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
‐‐ T. S. Eliot

The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
‐‐ Daniel Craig

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.
‐‐ Robin Williams

The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.
‐‐ Ben Horowitz

The BAFTA is both absolutely fantastic and sort of meaningless at the same time.
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh

The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.
‐‐ Rainn Wilson

The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start.
‐‐ Brian Skerry

The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity.
‐‐ Perry Christie

The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.
‐‐ Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

The bailout of Fannie Mae is completely off the books. It's going to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet nobody is placing this in any type of column in accounting for federal debt.
‐‐ Leonard Lance

The Baja is a survival race, and there is no break, but you're not up on the wheel all day in the Baja like you are in Winston Cup or at Indy.
‐‐ Robby Gordon

The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.
‐‐ Conrad Black

The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.
‐‐ Mark Udall