All Quotes

When you're starting a company, almost anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and it will probably look like and feel like you made the absolute wrong decision to start the company. If you're not absolutely determined to solve a problem or see something through, it might not make sense to keep going.
‐‐ Logan Green

When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.
‐‐ Steve Guttenberg

When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.
‐‐ Charles Kimbrough

When you're starting out, every line in a show or a commercial is like a huge success.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Chriqui

When you're starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life.
‐‐ Rivers Cuomo

When you're starting out, you know, you have to do something on a very limited budget. You're not going to be able to have great actors, and you're most likely not going to have a great script.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
‐‐ Rachel Dratch

When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
‐‐ Gabriel Byrne

When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

When you're strong physically, it improves your strength in every other facet of your life. You're more confident, your self-esteem is higher, and your self image is better.
‐‐ Jillian Michaels

When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can.
‐‐ Jodi Picoult

When you're successful, there will be friends, people, VIPs rallying around you. When you're down and out, you're all alone. That's why it's important to be a good person. Because whether you're a successful cricketer or not can always change, but the respect you earn by being the person you are stays with you.
‐‐ Suresh Raina

When you're suddenly pregnant and no one is standing by your side, even if you're in your 30s, it's a hard conversation. I'm a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that's the way I'd be doing this.
‐‐ Bridget Moynahan

When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.
‐‐ Keith Richards

When you're supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you're talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you're filming.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
‐‐ Fiona Apple

When you're surrounded by feathers and sequins and ridiculous Lycra outfits, it's impossible not to have a smile on your face.
‐‐ Catherine Martin

When you're surrounded by friends and exes, there's a whole lot of stuff that starts crawling out. But however serious and traumatic those experiences may be to the participant, to the onlooker they're hilarious.
‐‐ Steven Moffat

When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality.
‐‐ Emily Levine

When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast.
‐‐ Patrick O'Brian

When you're taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions you've got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what you're doing is fair and seen to be fair.
‐‐ David Cameron

When you're talented, you're talented.
‐‐ Alicia Keys

When you're talking about a trade you're saying, 'Is it good for this team or that team, did they give up too much?' That kind of debate is great for the game.
‐‐ Roger Goodell

When you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.
‐‐ Keith Stanfield

When you're talking about capital and financial things, which I certainly pay a lot of attention to, I base those decisions on one question that I typically ask myself, which is 'Does it help us to build a better company?'
‐‐ Jim Bankoff

When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.
‐‐ Jim Rash

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.
‐‐ Justin Bartha

When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about.
‐‐ Nick Cave

When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It's like he's got his own genre.
‐‐ Jackie Earle Haley

When you're talking about who is doing the most exciting and interesting horror films of the last 20 years, it's Japan. I mean, they are making amazing films.
‐‐ Drew Goddard

When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.
‐‐ Jenny Lewis

When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics.
‐‐ Lee H. Hamilton

When you're tan, you feel better about yourself.
‐‐ Nicole Polizzi

When you're tanner, you feel hotter and sexier. You should try it.
‐‐ Nicole Polizzi

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing.
‐‐ Anant Agarwal

When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?'
‐‐ Marya Hornbacher

When you're telling a story, the best stories, every character has an arc. Every one. And that arc is usually about finding yourself, or about at least finding something about yourself that you didn't know.
‐‐ Roy Conli

When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.
‐‐ Christopher Moore

When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.
‐‐ Annie Lennox

When you're that tall, people talk about it all the time.
‐‐ Kristen Johnston

When you're the best, and you know you're the best, and your contemporaries know you're the best, that's a terrific edge.
‐‐ Raymond Floyd

When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.
‐‐ Noel Gallagher

When you're the CEO, you take responsibility.
‐‐ Rick Scott

When you're the conscious captain in your kitchen, you'll feel better mentally and physically.
‐‐ Kris Carr

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.
‐‐ Brett Ratner

When you're the first guy to put out the piece of silicon that's half as expensive or twice as powerful, you bring a capability to the market that nobody else does - or can.
‐‐ Brian Krzanich

When you're the lead actor in a drama, you have 2 1/2 months at the end of a season to do other projects, and everything has to get done in that time.
‐‐ Melina Kanakaredes