All Quotes

When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!
‐‐ Richard Grant

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
‐‐ Alfred Hitchcock

When an actor doesn't face a conflict, he loses confidence in himself. I always want to have a struggle because I believe it will help me accomplish more.
‐‐ John Garfield

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.
‐‐ Charlotte Whitton

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
‐‐ Anton Chekhov

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
‐‐ James Dean

When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
‐‐ Katharine Cornell

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.
‐‐ Mary McCarthy

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
‐‐ Ralph Bellamy

When an analogy is really singing, it's what you want it to be.
‐‐ Ethan Hawke

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.
‐‐ Jon Katz

When an animal is infected, either naturally or by experimental injection, with a bacterium, virus, or other foreign body, the animal recognises this as an invader and acts in such a way as to remove or destroy it.
‐‐ Cesar Milstein

When an army doesn't want to fight, you don't need much experience to win.
‐‐ Ehud Barak

When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.
‐‐ Don Kardong

When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.
‐‐ Holly Near

When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to me an actor. You know that you're on the right track and you're doing work that can affect people. When that goes hand-in-hand with important issues that we're still living with, and we will be for a long time, sadly, it's so confirming of everything.
‐‐ Sally Hawkins

When an author creates a town in her novels, she spends a great deal of time visualizing the streets and buildings, landmarks and topography. And while the town becomes real in her imagination, it's rare for an author to see the place she's created actually spring to life.
‐‐ Lori Wilde

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When an employee asks why the company does things a certain way, and you can explain the logical reason, then the employee knows what she's doing is valid.
‐‐ Harvey Mackay

When an entrant competitor attacks the low end of any market, the rational reaction of the incumbent firms is to abandon rather than defend it - because the low end is the least profitable of their possible investments.
‐‐ Clayton Christensen

When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.
‐‐ Joe Murray

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
‐‐ Swami Vivekananda

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.
‐‐ Chief Joseph

When an Indian meets a terrorist, we condemn this.
‐‐ Preneet Kaur

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.
‐‐ Paul Harris

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
‐‐ Simone de Beauvoir

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
‐‐ Bayard Rustin

When an industry matures, it means it's not advancing, and of course the jobs go overseas. That's the obligation of the multi-national corporation: to put the factory where it can make the widget as cheap as possible. Don't get angry when a corporation does that; we've all bought into this concept. We live in a capitalistic society.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
‐‐ Carl Jung

When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.
‐‐ Laurie Helgoe

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.
‐‐ Nigel Farage

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
‐‐ Victor Borge

When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.
‐‐ Morihei Ueshiba

When an opportunity comes, it holds possibilities. And when you move away from it or don't sense it or grasp it, you're really throwing away your future; you're throwing away your tomorrow.
‐‐ Robert H. Schuller

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.
‐‐ Craig Bruce

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
‐‐ Benjamin Harrison

When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, 'It's okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect.' Because we're such a unit together. He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th.
‐‐ Sarah Ferguson

When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind.
‐‐ Maurice Gibb

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
‐‐ Confucius

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
‐‐ Richard Savage

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
‐‐ Mark Twain

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

When animals age, some humans see them as less valuable, less important and less entertaining.
‐‐ Jenna Morasca

When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.
‐‐ Joseph Barbera

When answering questions over the years about film and TV adaptations of my books, I have always maintained that no movie or TV series could ever change or damage my work.
‐‐ Michel Faber

When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.
‐‐ Bonnie Bassler