I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went Oooh.


Laurence Fishburne

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I've known Laurence Fishburne for about twenty years.
VING RHAMES
An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine D...
DONALD FAISON
You could tell that this was our first game of the season. I can think of only one other game in whi...
DAVID HILTON
I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that fa...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the caus...
JEAN GENET
No, no. I'm not a shooter. I could run the show and get it to guys like you 'cause you can shoot it....
MAGIC JOHNSON
That took a lot of wind out of our sails. A lot of guys said 'Oh my' after that one. It was a bad sn...
CARROLL MCCRAY
We'll work on that next time. I just went out there and played hard. When you play with these guys, ...
LUKE ZELLER
Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villai...
EDWARD NORTON
I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking...
RICHARD PRYOR
Usually, the drug of choice for African-Americans is cocaine, ... Ive battled with it even though I ...
BRIAN CALDWELL
I liked my face. Ethan liked my face. A lot of people liked my face. Besides, makeup was really just...
D.A. PAUL
I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because ...
NOLAN RYAN
He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who ...
RYAN GIGGS
I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly gett...
REBECCA FERGUSON
I could not wait to get back. I know I'm one of the lucky ones. My apartment was fine ... A lot of g...
JESSE MOORE
I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francais...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER
When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious 'oooh oooh' girls, with my hand up in ...
CLAIRE DANES
I have played my fair share of bad guys, or at least the nemesis.
ERIC JOHNSON
I realized we had a lot of openings and a lot of guys left, so that was an opportunity for me to get...
ERIC SOGARD
The thing that I consider most important about my work is this: I told it like it is. I told my read...
CARL BARKS
He's made huge strides. Last fall I said this guy is going to be the guy and I didn't get a lot of p...
BRIAN LECLERC
I never played coffee shops; I just played a lot of coffee shop-sized venues. I took every venue I c...
SARA BAREILLES
I went out of my way to say good things when people were saying a lot of bad things about him.
JOE RATTO
I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, ...
EARL CAMPBELL
When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the b...
LARRY BIRD
That was my idea, I didn't want that joker to get hit in the face. He had a lot of plastic surgery.
DANNY CARLISLE
I went to a bunch of marches in New York and Washington, and you know I believe in the cause, but to...
DAVID CROSS
Only when he saw this face, and this actress, could he make the movie.
LIV ULLMANN
A lot of the guys have done that and put the time in this past summer and winter and that just makes...
DOUG DEXHEIMER
I think winning states had a lot to do with it. The further we went, the more people saw us play and...
ALEX REDMOND
It was a bad throw by me, absolutely awful. Stephen was the check down. I saw him there and took my ...
JAKE DELHOMME
Laurence the last time I saw something like you I flushed it away.
MARK A. COOPER
I dont believe in luck. Ive only ever felt lucky finding God and even that was not by chance.
MEG NEZAJ
People are relying on local fruit, and they have little food to eat. I went out to get bread, and co...
AFTAB SHERPAO
People are relying on local fruit, and they have little food to eat. I went out to get bread, and co...
AFTAB KHAN SHERPAO
We just had a couple of bad ends. My team played great. I just wish I could throw that last one agai...
EVE BELISLE
It was one of those things where it was tough to see. After I saw it, I came busting in. All of a su...
RYAN CHURCH
With my speed and the way I can shoot the ball, if I get my body to where I want it, it can cause a ...
CARLTON REED
When I first saw the picture of Emmett Till, I was 10. I couldn't believe that something so bad coul...
KEITH BEAUCHAMP
In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, peo...
BUNKER ROY
People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.
AARON TVEIT
When I first saw him, I saw James Dean. He had that T-shirt with the cigarettes rolled up in the sle...
CONSTANCE RAPPAPORT
When things could go bad, it went bad, ... It was almost like a bad episode of 'The Twilight Zone.
DAUNTE CULPEPPER
When things could go bad, it went bad. It was almost like a bad episode of 'The Twilight Zone'.
DAUNTE CULPEPPER
When things could go bad, it went bad, ... It was almost like a bad episode of 'The Twilight Zone.'
DAUNTE CULPEPPER
I looked out and saw all these Rudolph red noses and people crying. It's like what Lisa went through...
CHITA RIVERA
Someone said to me that [the Presidents Cup] was making my job a lot easier, and in a way he was rig...
TOM LEHMAN
I think what really turned a lot of people on, when we saw him play basketball, he was that big and ...
DON DUNN
We were geared up. We played with a lot of emotion and energy, and our defense was outstanding. Once...
DAN FRIEND
They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. I took mine and fell flat on my fa...
JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ
We have a lot of leadership. The key guys that are getting most of the ice time have played in a lot...
ROB SCHELLING
I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I w...
PATRICK J. ADAMS
I used to think of work as a bad word. Back in the corporate world, work was something that prevente...
JOSHUA FIELDS MILLBURN
My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my m...
RAM CHARAN
A guy that I was supposed to face - and I think that he was just plain downright scared to get in th...
BROCK LESNAR
Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no...
CAB CALLOWAY
I think my best teacher and my best study was theater in general. It taught me a lot of patience and...
CHELSEA KANE
When I started doing Sandman, I could look at a group of people lined up to get my autograph, and I ...
NEIL GAIMAN
It was a well-played basketball game: they did some nice things with the ball but I didn't think our...
MIKE WOOD
I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet H...
MARC WEBB
I thought this game was an improvement over our first game of the year in a lot of ways. We had a co...
BOB ERICKSON
We played real physical with a lot of intensity. We left practice bleeding a lot. If there was a loo...
DEAN MILLER
Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then...
WAYNE ROONEY
I spend a lot of my time thinking about what the bad guys are going to do next.
SCOTT CHASIN
It was evenly played. We won the second half. It was a physical match but my guys played the way the...
DON TORDOFF
I was working my way up through management so I could get my own store, ... Then they invited me to ...
COWBOY TROY
What's unfortunate is that I know a lot of good guys who were in those organizations that don't know...
JEFF JENKINS
The way that Zola was so productive reminds me of a wounded soldier who takes out more of the bad gu...
MARK LEVITT
There's a lot of people picking this team to go really far in the playoffs. The fact it's my hometow...
CALE HULSE
I went in to record the Philharmonic. I wrote down the parts, and I was inside the studio with 62 pi...
WYCLEF JEAN
We have a lot of guys back that have played a lot of time for the past two years. We bring a lot of ...
PETE WILSON
Things got so bad that when I went shopping for a house, some people would refuse to open the door i...
EDWARD G. ROBINSON
Best Buy went and hired a lot of Shanghai staff, but went and westernised them. They only work eight...
ZHANG JINDONG
You could hear it when he ran out on the field, it was great with the crowd. You could feel the vibe...
MORGAN TURINUI
Once you've played in the NHL, I think you get a little misunderstood sometimes. These guys, with th...
BRAD SHAW
These guys (I played with), they knew they were crazy. With how the game was, you saw it (play out)....
GUILLERMO VILAS
I think a lot of people thought that was it. We've done everything we could do, and I think that wou...
BRUCE PEARL
To me, it was never about what I accomplished on the football field. It was about the way I played t...
JERRY RICE
The first half, I was really worn out. The second half, I came out and played a lot better. I was gl...
FRANS STEYN
A lot of people thought I wasn't ready last year. I think they saw (this year) that I could do a goo...
JEFF BATTLES
I was facing sideways and I saw the defender out of the side of my eye and just lifted it over, ... ...
FREDDY ADU
When it was over I felt he could have come to me. When I saw film, he had pressure in his face. He h...
JUSTIN PEELLE
I haven't played a lot of nice guys.
MICHAEL DOUGLAS
Since last year, when I went around the Philippines, I saw what the people need and I saw the clamor...
FERNANDO POE, JR.
I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them ...
BOB SEGER
Against Davis, our level of play went up a notch. The guys got a lot of the jitters out in the morni...
GEORGE HUSACK
I was in jail nine straight years. I was on the lam two-and-a-half years before it. In that period o...
BURTON KAPLAN
I think we'll get a lot of people. I could be totally wrong, but I think we'll get a lot of people.
CINDY CHRISTENSEN
Brent played a great game. We knew what he could do, but I was glad to see the younger guys like Pat...
BILL JR
Brent played a great game. We knew what he could do, but I was glad to see the younger guys like Pat...
BILL ZWAAN JR
It was cool. I saw a lot of people from Montrose, and it was a lot of fun playing in front of them.
DIRK JOHNSON
John played the bagpipes at the bazaar and I was wearing my kilt. It was a visual and audio cue that...
JOHN GRAHAM
I don't think anybody realized until last Tuesday that this was a Klan-type outfit, a white supremac...
JAMES GRAY
We went 3-8 my first year and 1-9 my second year. But I think we'll be a lot more competitive this y...
JAKE WEINGARTZ
The only reason I played golf was so that I could afford to go hunting and fishing.
SAM SNEAD
That was a bad play on my part. I thought maybe I could get to him (quickly enough and) I lunged. I ...
CLINT INGRAM
It was very big to get that win and something we kind of played off. I felt no matter what happened ...
TODD ENGLE
A lot of people get these dogs because they want - pardon my expression - a bad-ass dog.
DENNIS MCCULLOUGH
They are working hard to gain strength and this year should be good for these guys because we will f...
CODY KEENE

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LAURENCE STERNE
I write the first sentence and trust in God for the next
LAURENCE STERNE
Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge
LAURENCE STERNE
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb
LAURENCE STERNE
Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only re...
LAURENCE STERNE
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally boun...
LAURENCE STERNE
When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.
MARGARET LAURENCE
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old Age shall not weary them, nor the years condem...
LAURENCE BINYON
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one
LAURENCE STERNE
The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more fre...
LAURENCE GONZALES
We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little t...
LAURENCE COSSé
Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg.
MARGARET LAURENCE
We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.
LAURENCE BINYON
Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity. It is up to us, as adults, to see that they...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.
MARGARET LAURENCE
Being good or being evil is not something that is inherent in our nature over which we have no contr...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we ha...
LAURENCE YEP
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no ...
LAURENCE STERNE
By the deficits we may know the talents, by the exceptions we may know the rules, by studying pathol...
LAURENCE MILLER
When the chairman made his recommendation at the start of the go-round, the game was up, it was over...
LAURENCE MEYER
I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't...
MARGARET LAURENCE
The Committee continues to see the removal of accommodation as the focus of policy and has given no ...
LAURENCE MEYER
We are pleased to finally reach an agreement on major remedies to deal with major water pollution pr...
LAURENCE LAU
I'm a very good packer, but I probably take too much in the way of toiletries. You only really n...
LAURENCE FOX
'Richard III' is a really difficult play to film - it's involved, often obscure. I felt ...
LAURENCE OLIVIER
It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary t...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms...
LAURENCE OLIVIER
Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find your...
LAURENCE GONZALES
Fantasy, myth, legend, truth - all are intertwined in the story that is Scotland.
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
Do I think the shareholders are in a better position today than yesterday? Yes.
LAURENCE PETTIT
The reason that kids take chances when they drive is not because they're ignorant. It's because othe...
LAURENCE STEINBERG
The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public...
LAURENCE STEINBERG
Life without parole for kids presumes that they can't be changed.
LAURENCE STEINBERG
The older you are, the more hours you can withstand without seeing harmful effects. But generally, n...
LAURENCE STEINBERG
We are not very good at looking at people when they are 16 and predicting what they will be like whe...
LAURENCE STEINBERG
If you have these four things, it doesn't matter what ethnic group you're from, you'll do well in sc...
LAURENCE STEINBERG
If they were to drink multiple glasses of this mixture or concoction, I think there'd be a potential...
LAURENCE SPERLING
Some of this benefit we see now may be a combination of our increased awareness of heart disease in ...
LAURENCE SPERLING
Mr. Knight doesn't have $107 million. It remains to be seen what becomes of Death Row.
LAURENCE STRICK
He has no choice, the way these people have forced his hand.
LAURENCE STRICK
He doesn't pull any punches. He tells the pastors what's on his heart.
LAURENCE WHITE
It's often said that there are countries where bribery is a way of life, and that's still the case.
LAURENCE URGENSON
This is an amazing and rare collection of Michael Jordan memorabilia that doesn't come along everyda...
LAURENCE TONEY
We're not trying to displace (offline sales); we're trying to offer another channel. Our goal is rea...
LAURENCE TONEY
I believe a pastor has an obligation to speak to the moral issues of the country on the basis of the...
LAURENCE WHITE
If you're having a Republican state convention, you want everybody there. This isn't that kind of me...
LAURENCE WHITE
The Internet means record companies have to fight a bit harder.
LAURENCE BELL
The extension of the contract demonstrates our strong confidence in the Chinese aviation market and ...
LAURENCE BARRON
It's a good move for Airbus because we don't have enough space in Beijing now and China Eastern is t...
LAURENCE BARRON
It is the 20th anniversary of the successful co-operation of Airbus with China's aviation industry, ...
LAURENCE BARRON