I think that's been about as successful as me acting in movies.
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NATASHA HENSTRIDGE 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...
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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.
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TAMMY BALDWIN From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.
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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