All Quotes

When you acknowledge the integrity of your solitude, and settle into its mystery, your relationships with others take on a new warmth, adventure and wonder.
‐‐ John O'Donohue

When you act a scene with Sidney Poitier, he listens intently to every word you say. You can feel your words hit him. He makes the scene utterly real.
‐‐ Judy Geeson

When you act against a blue screen, you have to imagine what's not there.
‐‐ Rodrigo Santoro

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.
‐‐ George Woodcock

When you act for a living, you are lucky enough to get to say things you really want to say. You get lines that you look forward to, lines that jump out like a jack-in-the-box; you're thinking: 'Wait till you hear this.'
‐‐ Kenneth Cranham

When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.
‐‐ Sean Penn

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.
‐‐ Bradley Whitford

When you act, you're being asked to pretend in a very rigid, controlled environment. It's very un-childlike. So a lot of times, when you put kids in that situation, you hope they have a better support system outside of what they're doing to bring them back to reality at the end of the day and to keep them well-rounded.
‐‐ Patton Oswalt

When you act, you really have to give all of yourself, and if you're doing that purely for money, it's not healthy.
‐‐ Emily Browning

When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a forensic subject. It's poetry; it's a completely different place.
‐‐ Rhys Ifans

When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
‐‐ Rainbow Rowell

When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.
‐‐ Marc Maron

When you actually see Barack Obama, it's startling how slight he is and how young he looks.
‐‐ Simon Hoggart

When you actually take the time to go over to somebody's office and personally thank them - whether their office is in a cockpit of an airplane, or in a break room - that's an actual manifestation of interest in them. You need to take the time to show the people around you who work for you that you're interested in them.
‐‐ Gordon Bethune

When you admire someone's work, you are amazed by who you think they are.
‐‐ Nicolas Roeg

When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
‐‐ Abu Bakr

When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
‐‐ Tahar Rahim

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.
‐‐ Richard Pryor

When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
‐‐ Bono

When you allegorize, you're gonna get everybody saved somehow.
‐‐ Tim LaHaye

When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.
‐‐ Tim Wise

When you already have a following, people are more likely to employ you.
‐‐ Richard C. Armitage

When you analyze all the data, there is a warming trend according to science. But the jury is out on the degree of how much is manmade.
‐‐ Rob Portman

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
‐‐ Vincent Cassel

When you apply computer science and machine learning to areas that haven't had any innovation in 50 years, you can make rapid advances that seem really incredible.
‐‐ Bill Maris

When you are 10, and you are with friends making music or playing sports or doing whatever, I would say, enjoy that and try to keep that as the model for as long as you can.
‐‐ Ryan Lewis

When you are 15, everything is such high stakes, even tiny things. I think because of that, it is funny but sad at the same time.
‐‐ Sophie Wu

When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.
‐‐ Marianne Faithfull

When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.
‐‐ Catherine Zeta-Jones

When you are 20 years old, you are immature.
‐‐ Melky Cabrera

When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing.
‐‐ Eric Ripert

When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time is more precious to me now. I've got my priorities.
‐‐ Patricia Kaas

When you are 8 or 9, you should have a childhood. You should have adolescence. You should go through everything in a normal way.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman

When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.
‐‐ Chuck Feeney

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.
‐‐ George Lucas

When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long.
‐‐ Michael Douglas

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
‐‐ Vincent D'Onofrio

When you are a free agent like I was, it definitely makes a big difference when you know there's stability at the quarterback position.
‐‐ Benjamin Watson

When you are a hero you are always running to save someone, sweating, worried and guilty. When you are a villain you are just lurking in the shadows waiting for the hero to pass by. Then you pop them in the head and go home... piece of cake.
‐‐ James Marsters

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.
‐‐ Tony Parsons

When you are a kid, a wolf is an amazing sight, so sumptuous. I sort of knew these were splendid creatures, that I was not going to find them outside roaming around. It was like a dog, but not a dog. It was incredible, a god!
‐‐ Sarah Hall

When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
‐‐ Sophia Loren

When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want.
‐‐ John Niven

When you are a people's movement, you have one thing. Your only asset is people. And you have to deal with real people. Not the people of your imagination. Not the people you wish people would be. But people as they exist actually out there in the real world.
‐‐ Norman Finkelstein

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
‐‐ Patrick Demarchelier

When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.
‐‐ Patrick Swayze