All Quotes

The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
‐‐ Dakota Johnson

The idea of being close to where pigments were mined - that's the first thing in making a painting, getting the material. And what's the last thing you do in making a painting? You put a frame around it.
‐‐ Susan Vreeland

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.
‐‐ Tom Felton

The idea of being in a television series is a wonderful one to be considered, but you want to make sure it's the right thing for you because if you are fortunate enough to have something go for a long term, you want to make sure that it's something that you really want to be spending a bulk of your time on.
‐‐ Stephen Lang

The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they're doing well, you don't really need to be in control all the time.
‐‐ Tina Fey

The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack.
‐‐ Elliot Richardson

The idea of being on a show where each season stands alone, and you can come back the next year and show an entirely different aspect of your personality or your talent or your anything is an enormous gift that you rarely get in television.
‐‐ Sarah Paulson

The idea of being on TV 24 hours a day and people seeing the real me... No.
‐‐ Johnny Vegas

The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.
‐‐ Regina Brett

The idea of being with my peers at a real school seemed much more exciting than making movies.
‐‐ Shirley Temple

The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.
‐‐ James Payn

The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many.
‐‐ Doris Duke

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.
‐‐ Marketa Irglova

The idea of changing and fixing the problem of how news is presented on the Internet has been recognized for a long time.
‐‐ Ezra Klein

The idea of close encounters of the zero'th kind - which is to say, not a close encounter at all, but simply uncovering evidence that someone's out there - dates back to the Victorian era.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
‐‐ Gary Numan

The idea of community and helping others has always been a part of who I am. Growing up, my parents always made sure that my siblings and I were doing our part to serve our local community.
‐‐ Blake Mycoskie

The idea of competition, particularly in a creative atmosphere, is always there. And, if you don't acknowledge that, you are doing yourself and the process a disservice.
‐‐ Jake Gyllenhaal

The idea of confidence, of the emotions of the population, is an incredibly important one in economics. John Maynard Keynes called it 'animal spirit.' And if people are feeling generally good about the future, they're more likely to spend money, to start new companies; companies are more likely to hire people, make investments.
‐‐ Adam Davidson

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.
‐‐ Richard Stallman

The idea of critical windows extends beyond just vision, of course: almost every system in the brain has a critical window when it needs to experience certain stimuli, or it won't get wired up properly. The most obvious example is language: if you don't learn a language early on, it's nigh impossible to become truly fluent.
‐‐ Sam Kean

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.
‐‐ Shirin Ebadi

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.
‐‐ Johnny Depp

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
‐‐ Paul Wellstone

The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
‐‐ Yves Behar

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
‐‐ Ken MacLeod

The idea of doing a children's film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything - any genre. I've only made one Western, which was 'Three Amigos,' but I would love to make a serious Western. I'm just wide open.
‐‐ John Landis

The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
‐‐ Aaron Lazar

The idea of doing a tennis movie is truly unbelievable to me. Well, first of all, they don't really exist.
‐‐ David Walton

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.
‐‐ Ryan Phillippe

The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me.
‐‐ Charlie Day

The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.
‐‐ Donald Pleasence

The idea of England in decline is very attractive.
‐‐ Martin Parr

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.
‐‐ Geoff Mulgan

The idea of equal rights was in the air.
‐‐ Lucy Stone

The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.
‐‐ Christian Lous Lange

The idea of evil is always subject to denial as a coping mechanism.
‐‐ John Bradshaw

The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
‐‐ Vin Diesel

The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.
‐‐ Jacqueline Woodson

The idea of 'ferie,' or summer break, is a long tradition of which all Italians, including myself, participate. It's a time to relax, reflect and recharge.
‐‐ Frida Giannini

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.
‐‐ Robyn Davidson

The idea of finding your soul mate, whether it's online or not, is what people want.
‐‐ Nev Schulman

The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it's occasionally necessary.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.
‐‐ Conor Oberst

The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary software does not allow users to have control of their computing.
‐‐ Richard Stallman

The idea of future or past, either way, is a core part of entertainment. It's something we've always loved as humans. Its part of our psyche, I think.
‐‐ Mark Sheppard

The idea of getting a lifetime job, and making $100,000 a year, with benefits, is dead and gone. It's over. And it may never come again. That's a very scary thought for a lot of people.
‐‐ Robert Herjavec

The idea of getting old is horrific, but I don't want to make it worse by becoming a grotesque caricature. A lot of people have made that mistake of trying so hard to hang on to their looks that they make themselves look really scary.
‐‐ Jerry Hall