I think that's been about as successful as me acting in movies.


Bobby Baldwin

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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
As far as I'm concerned, the best acting class is life.
JAKE MCLAUGHLIN
In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
GAYLE GARDNER
I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL
That's about as bad as it got. I think we watched about six movies.
ASHLEY ESPARZA
I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.
DAVID DOBKIN
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it p...
JAMES COOK
Lord take me as I am just the way I am. Set my soul ablaze, never quench the flame
VENES
As far as accessories are concerned, I think it is always best to be as minimalist as possible.
ALICE TEMPERLEY
I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxin...
OMAR EPPS
I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a...
MICHAEL C. HALL
Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS)
What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
I think Jennifer Lopez is a phenom. And as far as I'm concerned, she's really a very smart b...
RITA MORENO
I dont want the kind of love thats in movies, I want my own kind,
LYNDSEY ANN-MARIE SHEPARD
As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA
I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.
BILL PAXTON
I think being snobby about the kind of storytelling people do, it just irks me. It irks me. And in f...
JASON BLUM
Draw me close to you, teach me to be like you. When people look at me I want them to see you
VENES
I'd never thought about acting as a job. I was an engineer; I was in science and technology. I l...
ATO ESSANDOH
When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And...
MALESE JOW
They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moo...
BRYAN ROBSON
I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narra...
DANA SPIOTTA
I don't think we've felt hopeless. I think that we just haven't been as successful as we'd hoped. Ho...
BILL CARTWRIGHT
And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS
I do love writing. It doesn't come to me as readily as I think acting does. I think acting is in...
DAVID DASTMALCHIAN
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all moder...
ROGER WATERS
I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.
HARRY HAMLIN
As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
VINCE MCMAHON
Do you think I’ll ever get better at this? That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of ...
STEPHENIE MEYER
I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think ...
PAT SUMMERALL
Weigh your words carefully. They may tip the balance."
RAIN BOJANGLES
I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at...
CHARLES DURNING
I don't know what it is about 'Godzilla,' but as far as I'm concerned, the more vers...
RHYS DARBY
When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the ...
JOANNA LUMLEY
As far I'm working on The life Of one Kid 7... continue!
DEYTH BANGER
I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.
TINA YOTHERS
As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH
As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK
Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER
As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin...
MEL BROOKS
I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS
If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had ...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON
I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able...
BOB NEWHART
I certainly don't follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world th...
MIKA
I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing ...
VALERIA GOLINO
As far as action is concerned, our films have been coming up with some great sequences. In fact, I t...
VIJENDER SINGH
I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.
LINFORD CHRISTIE
As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it co...
KATEE SACKHOFF
As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about th...
ETHAN SUPLEE
As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
WILHELM FRICK
As far as my mental approach, I really think it's just knowing that the past is really irrelevan...
JAKE ARRIETA
As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be l...
PETER STEELE
I like movies that instill passion in the viewer. I like movies that can teach us about who we are a...
ALEXANDER LUDWIG
I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowled...
MIGUEL FERRER
As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU
As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE
A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER
Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE
Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE
Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER
As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
JEF RASKIN
As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE
As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
TROY BROWN
That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
DAVE MADDEN
I was reborn...as ME!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
I don't think my books would've have been as successful as they are if the readers didn't think they...
STEPHEN KING
People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it...
BRIAN BLESSED
It's not about planting flags in as many places as you can. It's about owning successful terminals i...
NEIL DAVIDSON
As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kin...
JAMES FRANCO
I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In ...
CESAR ROMERO
In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN
I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't thi...
TOM SELLECK
As far as I'm concerned, dance is a passion for me. I don't do homework and go to the sets. ...
REMO D'SOUZA
I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
JACK GLEESON
As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high s...
MICHAEL J. FOX
As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all ...
CHRISTINE LAGARDE
Just to get a job is always really exciting to me. I do feel there's a lot left for me to learn ...
SEBASTIAN STAN
We must strive to let go our life as we planned,so as to have life we are destined for & that comes ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
The surrounding nature is the best erudite master to teach us the basics of living.
ANUJ SOMANY
Success is not a journey, it's a destination called satisfaction.
ANUJ SOMANY
Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Defi...
GORDON RAMSAY
As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making...
MIKE NICHOLS
As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
D. B. SWEENEY
I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed m...
NORAH JONES
I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the m...
CAMERON CROWE
John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been f...
MICHAEL IMPERIOLI
I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself...
COREY HAIM
I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.
MARIAH CAREY
But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I h...
TAYE DIGGS
I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and t...
JASON RITTER
Maybe thats what hell is. You go mad, and all your demonds come and get you just as fast as you can ...
ANNE RICE
People who've been around Bobby for a while view him as normal, ... Not many could overcome what he ...
EARL WHITE
The studios don't make stars. Great movies, great scripts make stars. I never had a chance to grow t...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confide...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR
I love the '60s - that's my comfort zone as far as dressing goes.
OPHELIA LOVIBOND
Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.
NICK FLYNN

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom...
JAMES BALDWIN
Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. Peop...
JAMES BALDWIN
James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no on...
JAMES BALDWIN
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES BALDWIN
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own e...
JAMES BALDWIN
Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.
JAMES BALDWIN
Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.
JAMES BALDWIN
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is...
JAMES BALDWIN
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
JAMES BALDWIN
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, ...
JAMES BALDWIN
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, fo...
JAMES BALDWIN
Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion...
JAMES BALDWIN
There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one ou...
JAMES BALDWIN
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imita...
JAMES BALDWIN
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themsel...
JAMES BALDWIN
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a s...
JAMES BALDWIN
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWIN
People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWIN
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly si...
JAMES BALDWIN
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, ...
JAMES BALDWIN
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forc...
JAMES BALDWIN
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibilit...
JAMES BALDWIN
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied ...
JAMES BALDWIN
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
JAMES BALDWIN
Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and stre...
JAMES BALDWIN
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocu...
JAMES BALDWIN
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
ALEC BALDWIN
Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.
JAMES BALDWIN
He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a ...
JAMES BALDWIN
The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
JAMES BALDWIN
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immut...
JAMES BALDWIN
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity f...
MONICA BALDWIN
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWIN
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
STANLEY BALDWIN
For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their abili...
JAMES BALDWIN