All Quotes

The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.
‐‐ Dwyane Wade

The thing is, I don't just take roles because they're performance capture.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

The thing is, I don't take anything for granted anymore - my family, my music, you name it.
‐‐ Alex Lifeson

The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.
‐‐ Angela Ahrendts

The thing is, I grew up in L.A., so I had this unique opportunity to live in both communist Russia and see that life, and then move to America as a young girl and experience a completely different life.
‐‐ Dasha Zhukova

The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

The thing is, I have never been that confident, and, um, I have a lot of self-doubt, and I had never - I don't think I ever would have consciously chosen to be a television presenter.
‐‐ Louis Theroux

The thing is I have no ACL. So unless I get surgery, there's nothing really magical that I can do that's going to make it better. I just can get my leg stronger, my muscle stronger and try and support it a little more. But that has a small impact. My knee is loose, and it's not stable, and that's the way it's going to be from here on out.
‐‐ Lindsey Vonn

The thing is, I haven't changed at all.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

The thing is, I love a celebrity interview. Doesn't matter how big or how small. It could be Hillary Clinton or the guy who made it to the third round of 'Popstars,' I'll read it.
‐‐ Sharon Horgan

The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.
‐‐ Clark Gregg

The thing is, I'm a gypsy; I love travelling!
‐‐ Sylvester McCoy

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.
‐‐ Stanley Tucci

The thing is, I'm happiest when I'm on stage.
‐‐ Joan Rivers

The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.
‐‐ Micky Dolenz

The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.
‐‐ Tom Baker

The thing is, I never see my characters as psychopaths. I see them as really crippled victims who just happen to do bad things. And I never see them as bad guys; I see them as darker characters. I never see anything as good or bad; it's more light or dark, and the in-between is the grey.
‐‐ Michael Eklund

The thing is, I really can't relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way - an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don't listen to any new music. I feel very secluded.
‐‐ Michael Cera

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.
‐‐ Grimes

The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.
‐‐ Rand Paul

The thing is, I've been writing for a long time now, trying to be a poet for the last 40 years, and it's still very difficult not to second-guess myself when reading my own work.
‐‐ Tim Seibles

The thing is, I've gotten massages to Enya. I like Enya. If you ate fantastic steaks to Celine Dion, you'd like Celine Dion.
‐‐ Adam McKay

The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
‐‐ Malcolm McDowell

The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit.
‐‐ Juliette Lewis

The thing is, I wasn't surrounded by lots of people who were helping me build a career.
‐‐ Annabella Sciorra

The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. It's just a pretty cool thing.
‐‐ Gina Prince-Bythewood

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.
‐‐ Matthew Perry

The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.
‐‐ Cara Delevingne

The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
‐‐ Paddy Considine

The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.
‐‐ Jasper Johns

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.
‐‐ Dan Quayle

The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have happen, but if one makes that a goal like, say, a literary writer has the goal of getting the Pulitzer Prize, that's so unpredictable.
‐‐ Diane Mott Davidson

The thing is, if you're in this world, you have to do things for yourself, not for others, because everyone will judge you for anything.
‐‐ Lykke Li

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.
‐‐ Utada Hikaru

The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.
‐‐ Bart Chilton

The thing is, is to raise your hand. It's not to hide, and it's not to try and pretend or do anything like that. You raise your hand, that's the best thing about it.
‐‐ Liza Minnelli

The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
‐‐ Ed O'Brien

The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
‐‐ Venus Williams

The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.
‐‐ Patti Smith

The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a movie with Quentin Tarantino you're just at the best cinema school ever.
‐‐ Melanie Laurent

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.
‐‐ Demi Moore

The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.
‐‐ Shakira

The thing is, my fantasies about being a parent always involved fighting for my unpopular child, doing for her what my own parents couldn't do for me when I was a girl. I am so ready to be that little girl's mother.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

The thing is, my life is a country song. I don't need to be manufactured, and I don't need anyone to tell me what to say or what to sing.
‐‐ Kellie Pickler

The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
‐‐ Maggie Smith

The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.
‐‐ Caitlin Moran

The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
‐‐ Ian MacKaye

The thing is, playing with us, whoever was the left winger had to come to play every night because that's the way it was. Charlie came in and he just fit that role - big and strong around the net.
‐‐ Marcel Dionne

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.
‐‐ Tracy McMillan

The thing is that any sophistication I have, aesthetically, comes from 'Vogue' and 'Harper's Bazaar.' In the '60s, I never missed an issue, even if I had to steal to get them.
‐‐ Patti Smith