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Related There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life... ROBBIE WILLIAMS To me, acting is like a party. It's like a fun thing to do. You don't have to worry. You don... ROB REINER Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its ow... LAURA SCHLESSINGER I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable. MATT DILLON I'd love to tell actors about all the things they don't need to worry about. Less is more. I... SIGOURNEY WEAVER I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worr... VINCENT D'ONOFRIO That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, ... LARS VON TRIER It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a... TERRY PRATCHETT One of the interesting things about the Ozarks is you just about don't have street crime. It'... DANIEL WOODRELL If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. J... CYNTHIA NIXON But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's t... DAVID BLAINE If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness. DAVID GEST I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character. R. LEE ERMEY If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we lea... EARL WARREN Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram... HOWARD AIKEN You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't... ORNETTE COLEMAN You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get... JOAQUIN ANDUJAR My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to v... KELLY WEARSTLER I don't really have guilty pleasures. I like what I like, and I don't worry too much about w... ANN LECKIE I don't care about the length of anything I play, as long as it's a good character. JOHN HURT You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's imm... ROMAN POLANSKI I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a... WALLACE SHAWN Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But o... WINONA RYDER I'm very happy with my life. I am what I am. I don't worry about anything that I can't c... TOM WATSON There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much ... AARON RODGERS My video game character is a bit better looking than me, actually. I don't think he has to worry... LLEYTON HEWITT Don't worry too much if you don't pass exams, so long as you feel you have understood the su... GODFREY HOUNSFIELD It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That'... LAURA INNES It must be nice for today's hitters when you don't have to worry about being thrown at. It... HARMON KILLEBREW So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some l... ROGER PENROSE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts ... KATE BECKINSALE I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect... AVRIL LAVIGNE Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, b... EMILY WATSON Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about wha... BETH ORTON I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to man... DANIEL RADCLIFFE People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk abo... JANE ASHER Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don'... BRIAN MCKNIGHT There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's ... MARK WARKENTIN When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You k... NANCY REAGAN I've got lots of stamina; don't worry about that. I cycle every day - it's OK. JEREMY CORBYN I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me. TARON EGERTON If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny abo... WILL ARNETT Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll ha... CHELSEA HANDLER You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself. VINCE VAUGHN There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&... VAN MORRISON It's fun playing the villain now and again; villains are so simple, and you don't have to wo... SANJAY DUTT I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rath... PARIS HILTON I don't worry about numbers. I worry about wins. You can see all the years that my numbers went ... PABLO SANDOVAL Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We do... DAVID AXELROD Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that... BABE RUTH I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don... JACQUES AUDIARD It's hard to be scared if you don't feel for a character, because you don't care if they... ELISHA CUTHBERT Foreign policy is something Americans care about when the economy is good, and when it isn't, th... KATHLEEN TROIA MCFARLAND It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don... TAJ MAHAL I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some ele... KAREN ALLEN We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our... DAN BUETTNER It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent... DAVID DUCHOVNY People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious... JOYCE MEYER I don't have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there's a lot of risk to it... MARIO ANDRETTI You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. People always s... DEREK JETER I don't worry about gaining weight. I'm fortunate in that I've never had to worry about ... ALANA STEWART I don't worry about protein. I don't worry about all that. I'm from old school. I grew u... HERSCHEL WALKER My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worr... COLM MEANEY You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to... JEFF FITZGERALD Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, ... LEE DANIELS You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change. JOHN CLEESE I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie st... FRANCES MCDORMAND What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has decli... SALMAN RUSHDIE I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money. ABBEY CLANCY The good thing about being pregnant is that I don't have to worry about sucking it in or dieting... BUSY PHILIPPS The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't... COLIN QUINN All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If... WENDELL BERRY It's about learning what's important and what's not important, and at the end of the day... AUBREY PEEPLES I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just ... CARMELO ANTHONY When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have m... HEATHER BROOKE You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There... CARRIE FISHER Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't... DAVID R. ELLIS Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you. ICE CUBE When I'm hired just to be an actress, I don't have to worry about anything else but showing ... PAULA GARCES I just dress how I wanna dress. Not to say that I don't care about how I dress or that I'm a... ALESSIA CARA There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.'... NATHAN FILLION Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have ... BRAD BIRD I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essenti... VIN DIESEL I'm standing behind a wall of jokes. You don't know about my personal life, my girlfriends, ... STEVEN WRIGHT There's a theory in gameplay, particularly in first person shooters, that sometimes you don'... DAVID S. GOYER I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it'... NATE LOWMAN I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life. PETER CAREY As far as vanity and wrinkles and things like that, that's a part of life I don't worry abou... JERRY HALL I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot. CYNDI LAUPER Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too. WALTER ANNENBERG Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and ... DAN BROWN I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno... ARIEL PINK It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really... ED MCMAHON I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging. NAOMI CAMPBELL The great thing about Pete and Peggy's storyline is that you barely have to do anything. There... ELISABETH MOSS It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I don't think anyone who runs a TV show would ever say to you, 'I have a grasp on running a ... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER
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much attention. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and
earning. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every tele... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to spend your life
in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is o... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.... CHRISTOPHER MOORE I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them. CHRISTOPHER MOORE One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hun... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, the... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and supers... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On ever... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good fo... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affec... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't. CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You wi... CHRISTOPHER PIKE Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. CHRISTOPHER PIKE If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in. CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shal... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Without fear there cannot be courage. CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI