All Quotes

When I disappear, I will disappear; there'll be nothing left.
‐‐ Christian de Duve

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
‐‐ Ralph Ellison

When I discovered acting, I decided that's what I wanted to do above everything else. It was the first time I was passionate about anything.
‐‐ David Morrissey

When I discovered European filmmakers, it affected me so deeply. It redefined what cinema could be. I mean, 'Blow-Up' ends with a dead body and mimes playing tennis. What?
‐‐ Paul Haggis

When I discovered that I could tune into American radio stations after dark, this was the hippest thing to me. It sort of saved my life.
‐‐ Paul Shaffer

When I discovered the lyric poem, that advanced not by narrative steps but by blocks and layers of imagery, I said, 'Gee, I probably could do that. So let me try that.'
‐‐ Billy Collins

When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.
‐‐ Rachael Ray

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
‐‐ Illeana Douglas

When I do a concert and people put their hands in the air, they're doing it on their own.
‐‐ Ronnie Spector

When I do a festival, I want everyone to have a party, I think it is kind of similar to a club where everyone is there to have a good time and celebrate not being at work or just being able to have fun. I love people dancing to my music as well; if I can make them dance I feel happy.
‐‐ Katy B

When I do a film score, I am basically nothing more than a fancy pencil for hire. I don't own any of the music when I am - it belongs to the film company - and likewise, when I am done, even if I come up with something astounding that I may want to revisit... in the world of film composition, you can't do that.
‐‐ James Horner

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
‐‐ Lance Henriksen

When I do a job, I do it 100 percent. I am so grateful for the chance to do what I do.
‐‐ Paul Schneider

When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.
‐‐ Rick Baker

When I do a mix tape for my kids, for my friends, for my lover, I meticulously choose the tracks, and it's beautiful. And when they are alone they think of me - and when I am alone I think of them.
‐‐ Jean-Marc Vallee

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.
‐‐ Holt McCallany

When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.
‐‐ Elle Fanning

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
‐‐ Bill Nighy

When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.
‐‐ Antonio Banderas

When I do a project, I like the idea that someone is going to experience the book, someone is going to experience the film, someone else is going to experience a framed photo on a wall, but they are all going to get to the same root thing as long as all of those mediums are exploring it from the same place.
‐‐ Andrew Zuckerman

When I do a T.V. show, I hear all these artists in their dressing rooms doing scales - I've never done it because I've never had voice training. What I do to prepare is get in my car and sing along to the radio for about 20 minutes.
‐‐ Bonnie Tyler

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.
‐‐ Geddy Lee

When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.
‐‐ Kevin Costner

When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

When I do all-hands calls - and I do a lot of all-hands calls - and I look out across 50 people, or 5,000 people, I see United States sailors. I do not see male sailors, or female sailors, and I do not think anybody else does, either.
‐‐ Ray Mabus

When I do an action thing, it speaks louder than the things that I've done that are dramatic and comedy. Actually, if you look at my resume, I have just as much comedic things as dramas, and I have far less action things than all of the other things, but I'm kind of defined as an action person.
‐‐ Michael Jai White

When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.
‐‐ Johnny Mathis

When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.
‐‐ Buddy Hackett

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.
‐‐ Atul Gawande

When I do appearances and stuff and I just wanna see the new pictures, I Google myself.
‐‐ Teyana Taylor

When I do club appearances, it's girls who come up and get their photos taken with me, not just guys.
‐‐ Georgia Salpa

When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.
‐‐ Jessica Alba

When I do comedy, it's not like I'm trying to be funny for folks; I look for the honesty in it. With James Early in 'Dreamgirls,' it was the honesty of it: it was the reality of the moment. You know, I don't know what makes me play sometimes. I really don't. I just do what I do. And that's what I did for 'Sliders,' and that's how I got the job.
‐‐ Cleavant Derricks

When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.
‐‐ Kathleen Battle

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.
‐‐ Betty Dodson

When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays found at Pottery Barn, and serve iced beverages. Anytime I do welcome friends, it's always a tray of canapes or Planters peanuts, jellied candy from Paris, and a good bottle of Sancerre.
‐‐ Andre Leon Talley

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!
‐‐ B. B. King

When I do fall in love, I'll go to the ends of the earth for that person. I'd lay down on a carpet of nails for the person I love.
‐‐ Peter Andre

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.
‐‐ Meat Loaf

When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that's what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check.
‐‐ Leighton Meester

When I do get pregnant, I highly doubt I'll be one of those women who don't look pregnant from behind - I'll be that chick who looks pregnant from her ankles up!
‐‐ Katherine Heigl

When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.
‐‐ Delta Goodrem

When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.
‐‐ Catherine Bell

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.
‐‐ Moby

When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can.
‐‐ Tom Araya

When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
‐‐ Eddie Trunk