All Quotes

The great thing about my two lives is I love them both. I'm very ambitious and nothing gets in the way of me practising and concentrating on winning golf tournaments. But then I come home and get back to normality.
‐‐ Rory McIlroy

The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people.
‐‐ Nicholson Baker

The great thing about NYU, and the reason I chose to go there, was the fact that they don't inhibit you as an actor and tell you, 'You only have to study acting. This is it for the rest of your life.' They're really great at balancing other things; you get to study two days a week anything you want unrelated to acting.
‐‐ Roberto Aguire

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.
‐‐ Antonio Villaraigosa

The great thing about performance capture is you can go off, and then, without changing costume, you can become another character.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

The great thing about Pete and Peggy's storyline is that you barely have to do anything. There's so much there, so much history, that you can have them exchange a look and it's so loaded. So you honestly don't have to do anything.
‐‐ Elisabeth Moss

The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.
‐‐ Brian O'Driscoll

The great thing about 'Pretty Little Liars' is it shoots in Los Angeles where my home is, so I got to live at home and wake up in my own bed.
‐‐ Claire Holt

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
‐‐ Elton John

The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.
‐‐ Paul Stanley

The great thing about running is that you can get away to your own thoughts and get in a little bubble.
‐‐ Alistair Brownlee

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.
‐‐ Scott Bakula

The great thing about 'Skins' is that it's not '90210.' We don't have to look stick-thin and ripped. Those shows send out the wrong messages by showing body-perfect people but not mentioning that they spend four hours a day in the gym to look that way.
‐‐ Kathryn Prescott

The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.
‐‐ Elton John

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.
‐‐ Jim Wallis

The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.
‐‐ Grant Hill

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.
‐‐ Hugo Weaving

The great thing about stage is that you have more control. The stage is yours. The time is yours. Film is really the editor's medium.
‐‐ Kenneth Cranham

The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to capture the essence of the book, and if he feels that's been done, then he's not too particular about the details. I think that's why he's happy.
‐‐ Lawrence Kasdan

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.
‐‐ Harvey Fierstein

The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.
‐‐ Michael Arndt

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
‐‐ Bonnie Raitt

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.
‐‐ Steven Soderbergh

The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that.
‐‐ Lester Bangs

The great thing about the 'Fast and Furious' world is everything is up for speculation. Yes, anything is a possibility.
‐‐ James Wan

The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.
‐‐ Andy Taylor

The great thing about the Internet is you can launch a product, and within just a few hours, people will tell you what they think about it.
‐‐ Susan Wojcicki

The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
‐‐ Rainn Wilson

The great thing about the public is that they're quite capable of believing two absolutely contrary views at the same time.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You have to have lots of run-throughs with theater because there are no second takes in front of a live audience.
‐‐ Sanaa Lathan

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

The great thing about the Wilburys was that none of us had to take the heat by ourselves. I was just a member of the band. Nobody felt like he was above anybody else. We had such a good time.
‐‐ Tom Petty

The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.
‐‐ Chris Pine

The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I'm not maximized yet. I feel like I can still run faster, jump higher, which I think makes it special. Hopefully, going to London, I'll be welcomed into the decathlon community.
‐‐ Ashton Eaton

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.
‐‐ Kim Weston

The great thing about this town hall format is that it allows us to hear what's on the minds of Americans. Tonight, it was clear - voters have quite a few questions about the direction in which the current administration is headed.
‐‐ Janet Napolitano

The great thing about Ticketmaster is that it's seen as the comprehensive site for ticketing, artist information, venue information. We're a marketing platform, not just a technology platform, and we're going to build on it.
‐‐ Irving Azoff

The great thing about training/exercise is it is non-bias. It changes from person to person, but everyone can still enjoy the benefits.
‐‐ Jessie Pavelka

The great thing about TV is that it's so fluid. When you bring in someone for one quick role and they're fantastic, you can bring them back.
‐‐ Jed Whedon

The great thing about Twitter is, you get a lot back, and I read through a lot, and I want my fans to know that I do read a lot, and it's why I do respond or retweet clever posts, and I'm constantly amazed by the cleverness of people on Twitter.
‐‐ Elizabeth Banks

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.
‐‐ Michael York

The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
‐‐ Peter Carey

The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side.
‐‐ Kate Bush

The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
‐‐ Carl Bernstein

The great thing about 'Weeds' is that everything we do is never quite serious enough to be taken seriously. It always has humor behind it, and it think it makes it definitely more fun for the audience.
‐‐ Alexander Gould

The great thing about working in comics is that visually, you're the sole voice. You have to figure out the staging, the lighting, the composition, the character emotions, the action. You get a script, but you're trying to work it out in individual panels. It's a terrific exercise in creative thinking and creative problem-solving.
‐‐ Chris Renaud

The great thing about working with NPR - and, really, there's like a million of 'em - is all the cool stuff I get to do for the public. Meet the president. Hang out at the National Finals Rodeo in Vegas. Drink a $10,000 martini.
‐‐ John Ridley