For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
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Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
SYDNEY POLLACK I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talki...
ALAIN RESNAIS And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into ...
NEIL GAIMAN Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
ZAK ORTH Funny story: I was hanging out with Adam Shankman for Samantha Ronson's birthday, and Lance Bass...
RYAN GUZMAN The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get...
SARAH DESSEN This is a 911? You know you only text that when someone is dead or dying. You scared the crap out of...
SARAH DESSEN For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is on...
BOMAN IRANI The filing fees are becoming an issue for bottom-end (small) companies.
BRUCE SHEPPARD Unless it's mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it's a waste of your time. There are too many medio...
DREAMS FOR AN INSOMNIAC The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was...
JOHNNY WEISSMULLER I was concerned about who he would put in there as FBI director because he had expressed antipathy f...
LOUIS FREEH If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ...
RON DARIAN The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE is a broken man an outlaw?"
"More or less." Brienne answered.
Septon Meribald ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy...
HUBERT SELBY JR. Love can make even nice people do awful things.
JUDE DEVERAUX I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The di...
TERESA PALMER I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.
DAVID WENHAM Give yourself for the course of living for others, improving their lives, becoming a deliverer to a ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot...
LEONARD COHEN For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between ...
NICOLE APPLETON My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what...
EMILIA CLARKE One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
H. G. BISSINGER For me as a director, it was important to create this couple as truthfully as I possibly could. Beca...
KATHY BATES Thankfully it was a great game for the fans. There was no controversy. The game was played, focused ...
BOBBY WAGGONER I never thought of this becoming a book. I never dreamed. I was always just writing them for fun.
CARL NELSON An eye for an eye may make the whole world blind, but a punishment you feel makes it all the more re...
DAN BASS It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'...
UNKNOWN We should be ready for a change.
DEYTH BANGER Did you see more glass?
J.D. SALINGER She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ...
J.D. SALINGER He (Davis) thought it was an appropriate time for the AD (athletic director) and me to consider a co...
ADAM HERBERT It's funny. When I'm empathetic and there for everyone and anyone I can help, they are not there for...
ADNAN BAHATTI A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.
PADDY CONSIDINE Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a M...
ELVIS MITCHELL He loved the game and always did whatever he could do to get the edge. He worked with me a lot and w...
JANICE KRUGER For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
BIBLE It was a tough way for the game to end. It was a fabulous game that was fought tough by both teams.
DORI OLDAKER It's nice that toward the end of the game, we've got that stability down there. Fortunately, Cortes ...
BRIAN FUENTES Adam was a development project. He had never raced before.
JOE AQUILANTE [The poker game never materialized.] For almost three hours we sat there and watched an American cla...
CHRIS ROSE I was told by both an agent and a casting director that I'd never work in television.
JULIANNA MARGULIES Adam, Grant and Tory have worked at ILM for some years. I worked there on one job with Grant and we ...
JAMIE HYNEMAN For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an internatio...
MARGAUX HEMINGWAY It was a never-quit game for both teams.
DEREK ANDERSON Columbus, bringing in Adam Foote was a huge pickup for them,
ADRIAN AUCOIN Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an i...
RAJEEV SHUKLA The roughest part for me was the daily grind of an 82-game season,
JOHN EDWARDS I had worked as an employee for the Boy Scouts as district director for almost six years. Working fo...
ADAM WOODWORTH The big difference in this game was the aggressive play of our team on offense as well as defense. T...
FREDDIE LEATHERS Listen, if you said to me, 'Adam Shankman is going to direct you in a musical and you have six m...
LESLIE BIBB If that was my last pass, it was a great way to end my career. It's been great for me to play footba...
VINNY TESTAVERDE I used to think there was light at the end of the tunnel, but for me today the light is on a locomo...
SOURCE UNKNOWN He's the boss, but he works for me.
IKENNA OJUKWU The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct...
WILL CUPPY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON What you taken for granted, could mean a lot to another.
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SAVAN SOLANKI For me, on a personal note, it was really tough to see both Adam and Peter go. I'm really going to m...
JOE SAKIC Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playi...
DONALD TRUMP Coach Carroll personally told me that he was going to sign an extension at the end of the year; he p...
ASHLEY WALKER I got a long great with the guys at Franklin Pierce, and there were some incredible baseball players...
JEFF SMITH Adam gave me a scandalized look. "Fraternizing with the enemy!" he cried. "For shame, wench!
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ADAM SHANKMAN A little secret - I'm the child of a shrink. I am; my mom's a shrink, and my father's a ...
ADAM SHANKMAN Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
ADAM SHANKMAN I really loved making 'A Walk to Remember', so I'm not afraid of making smaller films. B...
ADAM SHANKMAN There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I&...
MARTIN SCORSESE I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten ...
ROBERT BROWNING I give the fight up; let there be an end,
A privacy, an obscure nook for me,
I want to be forg...
ROBERT BROWNING I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less ...
STEPHEN FRY Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKER I have to warn you that my bedroom isn't the best place to stage an assault on me. It's where I'm at...
AMY PLUM Stop flaunting your impeccable language skills, Vincent, help the girl to her feet and let her take ...
AMY PLUM Never take lightly that becoming an employer puts another person’s ability to provide for their li...
AMBER HURDLE I'm still looking for someone
Who said they were here for me,
And I thought I was once the...
MARGO T. ROSE It certainly was a tough game and my team looked tired but our never-say-die spirit was there for al...
AKIRA NISHINO Adam sent me an email yesterday saying he had butterflies in his stomach waiting for the nominations...
ANTHONY LUCAS It was a good game for me, with the situation I was in. I think I did what they wanted me to do, so ...
CODY GLENN There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won a...
SALMA HAYEK For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a charact...
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm al...
AARON ECKHART It was a good game for both teams. We just came up short at the end.
TIM WHITNEY It was our family's first appearance with an orchestra. For Michael and me, it was a day we'll never...
DEBORAH CHARNESS I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
DANIEL ADAIR We wanted to win the game, the game was in the bag, it was in the refrigerator. There was no reason ...
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NATALIE BABBITT I had the fortune to be drafted to a wonderful city. I fit in there perfectly... because... when you...
BARRY SANDERS That was never a concern for me,
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ADAM CAROLLA Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.
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ADAM PALLY People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out...
ADAM PALLY I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on 'Episode...
ADAM PALLY Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome thing...
ADAM PALLY Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
ADAM PALLY 'Portlandia' - love it. I can consume three episodes of it without even realizing I'm wa...
ADAM PALLY 'Friends' started because Rachel left her husband at the altar. This likability factor is ju...
ADAM PALLY The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text...
ADAM PALLY Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what ...
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