All Quotes

To me, the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is, inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.
‐‐ Julia Leigh

To me, the Quran is a research book.
‐‐ Fatema Mernissi

To me, the real opinion polls are the tangible facts: the growing creation of jobs, the number of planning permissions, the number of commercial vans being sold - the signs that the Irish people are regaining confidence.
‐‐ Enda Kenny

To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.
‐‐ Amy Grant

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.
‐‐ Michel Hazanavicius

To me, the remarkable thing is it's pretty much unanimous the way blind people have been perceived in all cultures and for millennia. The first is, if they can't see, they must be stupid. The second one is, and this is a very old one, that blindness is such a terrible thing that it must be a curse from God for some evil that you committed.
‐‐ Rosemary Mahoney

To me, the scariest movie ever made to this day is 'The Exorcist.' It still scares the living hell out of me, and it's because of the fantasy element. It's the exorcism. It's the Devil. It's not a guy breaking into your house trying to torture you or cut your whatever off. Those kinds of movies don't do it for me, and I don't call them horror.
‐‐ Cassandra Peterson

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast. You go over the initial script with them and listen to the way they talk. Then you try to do a rewrite to accommodate them.
‐‐ Dito Montiel

To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea, I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.
‐‐ Gertrude Ederle

To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
‐‐ Jackie Cooper

To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.
‐‐ Snoop Dogg

To me, the simplest things can have the highest value.
‐‐ Brunello Cucinelli

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman

To me, the soul is a part of us that never dies. It's what we come in with.
‐‐ Debbie Ford

To me, the stage is like my living room, or my home, and when you come over to my house, I have to be a hostess and invite you in so that we can have a great time.
‐‐ Sheila E.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.
‐‐ Don Rickles

To me, the success of the cyberactivists in Tunisia is actually very interesting, because many of them explicitly rejected any support from Washington.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.
‐‐ Bill Sienkiewicz

To me, the thing about anime is that it's so adult-oriented. I remember going to Suncoast growing up, and you see 'Akira' there with the little 'Not for Kids' sticker on it. That always made an impact on me.
‐‐ Adam Wingard

To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.
‐‐ Benicio Del Toro

To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.
‐‐ America Ferrera

To me, the trick is not how can I make people laugh. It is, how can I make people laugh in a different way.
‐‐ Vir Das

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.
‐‐ Christopher McQuarrie

To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.
‐‐ Lucy Alibar

To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.
‐‐ Tobey Maguire

To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

To me, the word 'hero' hasn't got positive or negative value - 'hero' is the person who leads you through the story.
‐‐ Pierfrancesco Favino

To me, the word 'workaholic' is a negative word.
‐‐ Trinny Woodall

To me the work is so much more interesting, the parts that don't require you just to take your shirt off.
‐‐ Morris Chestnut

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
‐‐ David Hockney

To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.
‐‐ George Saunders

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.
‐‐ Scott Caan

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.
‐‐ Mike Huckabee

To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.
‐‐ Christopher Walken

To me, there are two types of celebrity: there's good celebrity - people that are attracted to the food and working and trying to create something great - and then there's bad celebrity - those who are working on being a celebrity.
‐‐ David Chang

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
‐‐ Isaac Newton

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.
‐‐ Janeane Garofalo

To me, there is no greater way to achieve clarity than to run alone, or share miles with a trusted friend.
‐‐ Kristin Armstrong

To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.
‐‐ Tony La Russa

To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
‐‐ P. T. Barnum

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
‐‐ Bobby Vinton

To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions and standards - are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
‐‐ Madison Smartt Bell

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's only because we haven't been able to understand it yet.
‐‐ Richard Matheson

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
‐‐ Adlai Stevenson

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.
‐‐ Steve Lacy

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.
‐‐ Lorne Michaels

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.
‐‐ Aleksandar Hemon