All Quotes

The thing about a real economy is that it actually is like the game of Monopoly in the sense that when one person has all the money, the game is over. And in a game of Monopoly, of course, that's quite charming, but in a real economy, it's much more problematic.
‐‐ Nick Hanauer

The thing about a sense of humour is that it's not bestowed on the good. It's just randomly dished out.
‐‐ Chris Morris

The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively.
‐‐ Brian Sutton-Smith

The thing about abs is if you hit them daily, you feel more put-together.
‐‐ Patrick Wilson

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.
‐‐ Ben Whishaw

The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.
‐‐ Gena Rowlands

The thing about acting is you have to wait to be asked to the dance.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.
‐‐ Meg Rosoff

The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

The thing about all good horror movies is that the fans expect a couple of inside jokes. Maybe I'm supposed to be saying how terrified I was while making it, but it was really fun.
‐‐ Margot Kidder

The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.
‐‐ Ina Garten

The thing about America - it's different everywhere, but visually, it's amazing to shoot in the desert in the New Mexico light. It's really hard to shoot in that desert and make anything look not amazing.
‐‐ Lenny Abrahamson

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.
‐‐ Rob Walton

The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
‐‐ Sam Shepard

The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn.
‐‐ Jacqueline Bisset

The thing about 'Aquarius' is it's incredibly original, and it's really different than anything on network television. The story is so compelling, and it's something people are fascinated by.
‐‐ Claire Holt

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
‐‐ Takeshi Kitano

The thing about ballet that I never knew about is that it's one of the most excruciating sports that I've ever been a part of. I say sports because they train constantly, every single day.
‐‐ Mila Kunis

The thing about 'Batman Begins' is that he's a character that people thought they knew a lot about, and yet you're able to identify the spirit in his life where even in the comic books it's not explored that much.
‐‐ David S. Goyer

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
‐‐ Tana French

The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.
‐‐ Victoria Clark

The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
‐‐ Jacki Weaver

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
‐‐ Cameron Monaghan

The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up.
‐‐ Luke Wilson

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.
‐‐ Penelope Wilton

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
‐‐ J. Cole

The thing about being an outsider... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

The thing about being at home versus being out in the world working is, it's a whole different vibe. When I'm home with my kids and partner, I will cook - even though she's a very good cook. She's learned over the years. We started with basics, you know, how to saute onions, how to saute mushrooms.
‐‐ Cat Cora

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.
‐‐ Temple Grandin

The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
‐‐ C. C. H. Pounder

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.
‐‐ Margot Kidder

The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars.
‐‐ Vanessa Brown

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
‐‐ Henry Louis Gates

The thing about Bollywood is that you can't just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.
‐‐ Kangana Ranaut

The thing about boxers is that there's respect there. You beat me, and I may not like it, but you know what, deep down inside, I respect you. And that's the code of honor.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.
‐‐ Elia Kazan

The thing about Broadway, they always welcome you with open arms.
‐‐ Brooke Shields

The thing about Buffy and Spike is they understand each other on a level that nobody else understands her.
‐‐ Sarah Michelle Gellar

The thing about Canada is that it's a very large country, and the population's very spread out among different regions. Each region in the country really has its own personality and its own culture, you know? From West Coast to East Coast - wherever you go, it's almost like it's its own country.
‐‐ Jeff Lemire

The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC.
‐‐ Lexa Doig

The thing about Canadian women is that they seem less likely to bring up that they're Canadian. You here less about Canadian actresses than actors, I don't know why.
‐‐ Dustin Milligan

The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.
‐‐ Vince Vaughn

The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had - it's a fresh start.
‐‐ Kelly Clarkson

The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
‐‐ Hannah Gadsby

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.
‐‐ Richard Serra

The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to somebody's house and they're making something, they usually say interesting things while they're cooking.
‐‐ Christopher Walken

The thing about curly hair is that it's a toss-up. Some days you can let it air dry and it's better than a hair-do, but some days you just look like a sloppy person. I'm really resistant to a trim. I only do it when it gets hard to brush out in the shower, then I'll submit, begrudgingly.
‐‐ Natasha Lyonne

The thing about dads is, even when they're very good, they don't do anything like as much as most mums do.
‐‐ Louise Nurding

The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.
‐‐ Madonna Ciccone

The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.
‐‐ Zack Snyder