All Quotes

The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.
‐‐ Patti Smith

The thing is that I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman

The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event.
‐‐ Rem Koolhaas

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.
‐‐ Steve Kazee

The thing is that I never felt beautiful. I really never did. I think I can change my looks and be different things, but I've never thought of myself as this face.
‐‐ Juliette Binoche

The thing is that I've known the guys from Motley Crue longer than just about everybody.
‐‐ Nikki Sixx

The thing is that my father's story helps to communicate what was at stake with my mother, and my mother and father had so much a partnership that his story is integral to her story, as her story is to his - really, her story can't be told without his story.
‐‐ Rory Kennedy

The thing is that my idols have always been the types of guys who could do anything: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Sinatra, Dean Martin; and when you look up to people like that, you don't accept that you need to be compartmentalised.
‐‐ Justin Timberlake

The thing is that, often if you have time to research a role, sometimes it's hard to know exactly where to start.
‐‐ Corey Stoll

The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
‐‐ Harold Feinstein

The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.
‐‐ Val McDermid

The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.
‐‐ Lester Bangs

The thing is that what you see on Snapchat, that's DJ Khaled. That's Khaled for real. That's Khaled.
‐‐ DJ Khaled

The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.
‐‐ Elliott Erwitt

The thing is the game is getting tougher and tougher and we have to ask a lot of our bodies.
‐‐ Amelie Mauresmo

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.
‐‐ Davy Jones

The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don't want you to do anything else.
‐‐ Charles S. Dutton

The thing is, the Superman comics have been around a long time, and so have the movies. They've done a lot of Superman movies, as they have with Batman.
‐‐ Martin Campbell

The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.
‐‐ S. E. Hinton

The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.
‐‐ Mike Shinoda

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.
‐‐ Alex Winter

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.
‐‐ Molly Ivins

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.
‐‐ Maryam D'Abo

The thing is to be able to outlast the trends.
‐‐ Paul Anka

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.
‐‐ Scott Weiland

The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you're trying to figure it out, and you're really looking in the right direction, everything's going to be all right.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.
‐‐ John Oates

The thing is, when I feel like I have to lose weight, the opposite happens. I remember stuffing loads of chocolate on the plane to the shoot, and I thought, 'Why don't you have the courage to show up in a body that's natural, not overly worked out?'
‐‐ Geri Halliwell

The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.
‐‐ Rob Brydon

The thing is, when we do fight scenes, when we kill people in the movies, they bring in experts to choreograph it bit by bit, because you can't really kill someone, and you don't want to really hurt them.
‐‐ Annabella Sciorra

The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere.
‐‐ Terence Winter

The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film. If I play Frank Sinatra, there's gonna be things I do in a movie that Frank might not have done, but it's the personality that comes across.
‐‐ Alex Pettyfer

The thing is when you're... well-enough known, you get asked to speak places, and they don't really think about whether or not you're qualified. They just want somebody that will be a drawing card for the audience. So it's up to you to decide whether or not it's foolish to get up and speak to these people.
‐‐ Alan Alda

The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.
‐‐ Polly Bergen

The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.
‐‐ Ice Cube

The thing is, work is the thing I love the most.
‐‐ Katharine McPhee

The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
‐‐ Rachel Weisz

The thing is, you don't want to overact or be full of yourself.
‐‐ Penelope Ann Miller

The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.
‐‐ Harland Williams

The thing is, you try your best, and what else you got? You try your best, really, that's all you can do. And for me, my best happens really so rarely.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual.
‐‐ Sarah Addison Allen

The thing most people don't pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It's 24/7.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

The thing most people don't understand is that pitching isn't the same every time out.
‐‐ Tom Seaver

The thing now is to seem concerned in a vaguely social-democratic way.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.
‐‐ David Selby

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.
‐‐ Mose Allison

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
‐‐ Samuel Alexander

The thing people don't get about Indian films is that the songs are the story.
‐‐ Asif Kapadia

The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.
‐‐ Taylor Momsen

The thing running through me is the same thing that writes songs. It's the fighter about to get into the ring. It's like, I'm not here to entertain you; I'm here to get this out, whatever it is.
‐‐ Damien Rice