All Quotes

To be totally honest? I don't know if I'll keep doing more impressions. People told me I had a facility for it, and I was like, 'Okay, I'm the impression guy.' So you imagine the cast at 'SNL' is an A-Team, and you've got the explosives guy, and I'm the impression guy.
‐‐ Bill Hader

To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.
‐‐ Courtney Thorne-Smith

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
‐‐ Madame de Stael

To be trained in karate is something because karate is a vicious thing. If you are any good at it, you can kill somebody with it. It is a vicious way to fight.
‐‐ Thomas Foran

To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can't be a bad thing.
‐‐ Anthony Bourdain

To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
‐‐ Raymond Williams

To be truly 'soigne,' a man should have 80 suits.
‐‐ Jean Patou

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
‐‐ George MacDonald

To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
‐‐ Vanilla Ice

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
‐‐ Mahmoud Darwish

To be unrecognizable in movies is the biggest compliment that anybody can give you.
‐‐ Michael Angarano

To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.
‐‐ Jacqueline Bisset

To be very honest, I cannot drape a saree myself. I have never draped one on my own, ever. But it has been done on me so many times, that now I have memorised all the steps, and if someone challenges me, I will surely be able to do it.
‐‐ Sonakshi Sinha

To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.
‐‐ Langhorne Slim

To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.
‐‐ Lana Parrilla

To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.
‐‐ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
‐‐ Mainbocher

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.
‐‐ Cat Stevens

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.
‐‐ David Foster Wallace

To be with Derek Jacobi and Stellan Skarsgard, it's a master class in acting every day.
‐‐ Richard Madden

To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.
‐‐ Ian Ziering

To be with the other two-time gold medalists is great, but it's great to just be a decathlete.
‐‐ Ashton Eaton

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?
‐‐ Jimi Hendrix

To be with the same person for the rest of your life just sounds so drab.
‐‐ Eva Longoria

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
‐‐ Andre Maurois

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
‐‐ Jane Harrison

To be working in the theater steadily and to be recognized and appreciated by the community means the world.
‐‐ Lily Rabe

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
‐‐ Confucius

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

To bear is to conquer our fate.
‐‐ Thomas Campbell

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.
‐‐ Merton Miller

To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me.
‐‐ Evelyn Keyes

To become a celebrity, a name - and I've actually met some that speak of themselves in the third person - it's scary. They become an object, not a human, complex, questioning thing where the cells are always changing.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life.
‐‐ Jennifer Garner

To become a doctor, you spend so much time in the tunnels of preparation - head down, trying not to screw up, trying to make it from one day to the next - that it is a shock to find yourself at the other end, with someone shaking your hand and asking how much money you want to make.
‐‐ Atul Gawande

To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to think like a writer. Ideas are not found - they are shaped.
‐‐ Avi

To become a Secret Service agent, applicants must pass a polygraph exam. But after being hired, agents are never required to undergo regular lie detector testing again.
‐‐ Ronald Kessler

To become a singer requires work, work, and again, work! It need not be in any special corner of the earth; there is no one spot that will do more for you than other places. It doesn't matter so much where you are if you have intelligence and a good ear.
‐‐ Enrico Caruso

To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona.
‐‐ Beverly D'Angelo

To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

To become a villain, you had to have become disillusioned, and in order to become disillusioned you had to have been passionate about something you believed in that was shaken and ripped from your grasp as a protagonist in that stage of your life, leaving you disillusioned with God, if you will.
‐‐ Matthew Davis

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher