All Quotes

When you're an actor, you can be hindered by your own narcissism.
‐‐ Amanda Peet

When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.
‐‐ Tom Wilkinson

When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.
‐‐ Kate Fleetwood

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
‐‐ Tanc Sade

When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel. They can't fake you or hire another actor to play you.
‐‐ Jennifer Coolidge

When you're an actress, you are a part of the storytelling process. You have to do the same thing when you direct.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.
‐‐ Julie Delpy

When you're an actress you've got to keep your body as your sanctuary and your muscles.
‐‐ Paz de la Huerta

When you're an adult, when times are good, entire years go by in what feels like the space of one season. But the worst trick time plays on you is just how slowly the worst times in your life take you to live through.
‐‐ Artie Lange

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.
‐‐ Kevin Smith

When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.
‐‐ Melanie Laurent

When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.
‐‐ Rico Love

When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.
‐‐ Darren Criss

When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.
‐‐ Halsey

When you're an assistant, you're executing the wishes of your boss.
‐‐ Brad Goreski

When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.
‐‐ Jasper Fforde

When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.
‐‐ Jo Nesbo

When you're an experienced celeb - which I am - you sometimes just need a bit of space, when you're not 'on'. I'm always on!
‐‐ Rik Mayall

When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.
‐‐ Clive Thompson

When you're an insecure teenager, you build walls and defenses and masks, and those are incredibly satisfying to perform and chip away at. I mean, when I was an insecure teenager, you'd have had no idea what I was insecure about because I hid it so well. Only confident people are comfortable wearing their vulnerabilities on their sleeve.
‐‐ Sarah Steele

When you're an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investment, but there's a third aspect: What you feel in your gut.
‐‐ Kevin O'Leary

When you're an outsider, you don't have loyalties to anyone, so you can be cruelly honest if need be. The more you get inside, the more you are involved in polite networks of professional coercion that make people less honest.
‐‐ Molly Crabapple

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.
‐‐ Ryan Tedder

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.
‐‐ Amy Winehouse

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

When you're around me, you're going to get glitter on you.
‐‐ Kesha

When you're around people who are trying to be funny all day and trying to one-up each other, that's just naturally - if you want to do it - it's going to make you better.
‐‐ Colin Jost

When you're around somebody like E-40, all you can do is watch and learn, and soak up game.
‐‐ G-Eazy

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.
‐‐ Ritchie Blackmore

When you're around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you're supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.
‐‐ Adam Sandler

When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.
‐‐ Ken Kesey

When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.
‐‐ Stanley Crouch

When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.
‐‐ Ingmar Bergman

When you're as famous as I am, stories take on a life of their own.
‐‐ Norman Wisdom

When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
‐‐ Ralph Hall

When you're as tall as I am, you have no public privacy. People are constantly coming up and talking to you. Constantly. You have one of two ways to go: you engage with people, or you become really bitter. I choose to engage.
‐‐ Mark Bradford

When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.
‐‐ Edward James Olmos

When you're asked to have a CT scan or a nuclear scan, do you know how much radiation that involves? How many of those sorts of scans have you already had? Is it necessary? Is there an alternative? I don't think many people know about that.
‐‐ Eric Topol

When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.
‐‐ Andrew Forrest

When you're asking someone for assistance, make it as easy as possible for them to say 'no' to you. You don't want someone helping you who doesn't really want to.
‐‐ Raymond Arroyo

When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It's not grand at all, actually.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

When you're at a lunch, enjoy being - I'm always on my phone when I'm at lunch or with things here or there. I've learned to put the phone down and be present.
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian

When you're at a public pool or in your friend's backyard, knowing that your kids can get in and out of the water and protect themselves can make all the difference in the world. Something as simple as being able to flip over and get to the ladder can save a life. You can start your kids in lessons as early as you want - it's never too soon.
‐‐ Summer Sanders

When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it.
‐‐ Samuel Fuller

When you're at work, it's about being present and getting as much done as humanly possible.
‐‐ Alexa Von Tobel

When you're at your absolute, most exhausted... That's when you have to be at the top of your game.
‐‐ Bill Hader

When you're auditioning for commercials, they're looking for a Latin guy in his 20s, and you'll show up, and it's a bunch of people who look just like you, and it's a little weird. More often than not, they're way better-looking. They're taller. They have way more abs than you do.
‐‐ Frankie J. Alvarez

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead

When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.
‐‐ Anita Baker

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.
‐‐ Samuel Hoffenstein

When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
‐‐ J. B. Smoove