All Quotes

You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.
‐‐ Marc Racicot

You're trying your best to make people laugh; then if you fail, they hate you. But your intent's the same. It's not like you're trying to do evil to them.
‐‐ Norm MacDonald

'You're Ugly Too' isn't a comedy, but it has a lightness of touch with a hard edge. But it's essentially a warm story tinged with a bit of melancholy in the great Irish tradition. I'm very proud of that film.
‐‐ Aidan Gillen

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.
‐‐ Denis Johnson

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

You're used to having a camera in your face when you're playing a character - it's like having a mask on. But when you have to be you, you're so worried you'll make an idiot of yourself. Acting is a kind of escapism.
‐‐ Sheridan Smith

You're using such different muscles and you rely on physicality in live action, but in animation, you totally throw that out the window. But somehow, they're both as satisfying.
‐‐ Reid Scott

You're very aware in the theater by the response you get, but not so much on television, obviously.
‐‐ Kevin Whately

You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny stuff. It's definitely amusing, and paying 99 cents for a samurai sword is amazing.
‐‐ Al Madrigal

You're watching the movie for the first time when you're working with the actors in front of the camera. You don't think about how the audience will react. You discover the film.
‐‐ Juan Antonio Bayona

You're watching your kids playing football, and you're not present. It's like the worst... it's horrible. I despise myself for it. I think it's a particularly male thing. Being present and in the moment with your kids is something a lot of men struggle with.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.
‐‐ Harvey Keitel

You're working with adults and you're being paid to do a job. And you're a kid. Then you go back to high school, and everybody's partying, and they're doing math. I always felt a little bit outside of it. Outside of both experiences, really.
‐‐ Tatiana Maslany

You're working with models who are looking at their watch, and it didn't work for me. I wanted to have relationships with amazing people.
‐‐ Thierry Mugler

You're working with the same people, and there's a lot of recognition. I like to do series best. I really do.
‐‐ Dick Van Patten

You're wrestling seven days a week for four months straight. It's a great way to learn.
‐‐ Robert Maillet

You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?
‐‐ Hill Harper

You're wrong if you think young people don't deserve the vote.
‐‐ Lucy Powell

You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
‐‐ R. Kelly

You reach a certain age, and you realize, 'Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don't leave me out - I don't want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.'
‐‐ Ted Danson

You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.
‐‐ Jimmy Webb

You reach a point at which you have to view your life through the things you've spent so much time doing. The alternative is a perilous feeling of waste.
‐‐ Thomas McGuane

You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
‐‐ Sam J. Jones

You reach a point when you say to yourself, 'Do I want to keep doing this?' There are other things on my plate I want to do - I've been writing a play; I've been neglecting my standup.
‐‐ Joy Behar

You reach a time... when fact and fiction blend seamlessly. If you do it too soon, it's journalism. If you do it too late, you forget, and it's fantasy. There's an optimum time.
‐‐ Frank D. Gilroy

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.
‐‐ Anne Rice

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
‐‐ Al Stewart

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
‐‐ Jessamyn West

You read a book, write a detailed review as proof you've read it, and they give you a badge. That's where my competitive nature came out. Give me the badges! I would sit in the library all day, not 'cos I loved reading, just because I needed those badges.
‐‐ Stormzy

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.
‐‐ Brandon Jay McLaren

You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
‐‐ Caitlin Fitzgerald

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.
‐‐ Tim Roth

You read a script, you try and think through what is the best, most wide-ranging way of telling the story: who stylistically, character-logically, psychologically fits inside the world of what you're trying to do. A lot of it, when you're casting, is trying to get yourself in the head of a director.
‐‐ Scott Rudin

You read about poor people having Botox go wrong and you think: 'Well, what the bloody hell were you doing?' Why would you inject yourself with poison? And why are we spending so much time looking at ourselves? I just don't get it.
‐‐ Imelda Staunton

You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.
‐‐ John Hartford

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.
‐‐ Jamie Dimon

You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.
‐‐ Tim Tebow

You read 'Stalingrad' by Antony Beevor because you're interested in the Second World War or Russia or whatever.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

You read the stories about horses being starved at Santa Anita, but a horse can't starve at Santa Anita! I mean, there's just bags of carrots all over the place; food is everywhere. They don't starve any horses!
‐‐ Kevin Dunn

You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt.
‐‐ Ben Horowitz

You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I'm wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I'm obsessed with being different.
‐‐ ASAP Rocky

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
‐‐ Madonna Ciccone

You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.
‐‐ Vir Das

You realize mortality is everywhere.
‐‐ Katey Sagal

You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.'
‐‐ Peter Riegert

You realize that as much as you want to socialize with the people on the set, or you want to, after a day shooting, joke around or whatever. Somehow, with playing Jesus, this doesn't happen. You actually need to decompress and be on your own and prepare on your own. It never happened to me before.
‐‐ Juan Pablo Di Pace

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.
‐‐ Lewis Black

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.
‐‐ Robin Gibb