- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Full Advantage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to take full advantage of whatever time I've got on this earth. I'm going to get my money's worth. You can bet your butt on that.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always more interested in public service. What I discovered is you could practice law and be a public servant.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned that I was just getting too consumed by racing. That's all I used to do was think about it. You have to be able to turn it off. You have to make yourself stop, or you'll get burned out.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we have a good foundation which Mr. Lee Kuan Yew laid down, but you have to move forward. Now the question is what can Mr. Lee Hsien Loong and his team, and all our younger ministers can do now to build on the foundation which Mr. Lee Kuan Yew has built.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're not really necessarily the coolest guy in their life. You are a conduit to the really cool people.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I strive to be the best possible president that I can be to work for all of you and to represent out country and all Singaporeans.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano .
- Elephant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a film in Nairobi, Kenya called 'The Last Elephant,' with John Lithgow, Isabella Rosallini, and James Earl Jones. So I was in seventh heaven, alright? About a year later I get a call from my agent and he says they want to see you for this project called Candyman. I thought he was joking so I hung up.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Quick Change' was my first real movie. It was an interesting audition process because there were no lines in the script. Bill Murray's character would say something, and Geena Davis and Randy Quaid would say something, and then it would just say, 'The cabbie speaks.' How do you audition for that?
- Performance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if you do a great performance, if you have a weak link in the film, that's all anyone remembers.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I grew up watching film noir, you know the classic stuff. William Holden, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, all those.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been lucky that even when I was younger, just because of my look or whatever, I was afforded the opportunity or called on to try. 'Can you do this Hispanic character?' 'Can you do this Italian character?' 'Can you do this Jewish-American character?' I just had to develop a facility for their accents.
- Three
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- Nov 07, 2020
Voiceover is probably the toughest of all the markets to get into. Everybody wants to do it because it's again three to five hours work. You can roll in there with your bedroom slippers and robe on if you wanted to. And it's fun.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Michael Bay called me, I'd worked with him before on 'The Rock,' and he called me and said, 'Tony, I might have something for you.' I said, 'Okay, you haven't called me in ten years!' He said, 'I've been busy!' I said, 'I've been busy too Michael, glad we could make our schedules match!'
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked with directors who have done it too much, particularly in television, you know, 'okay we got it, let's move on, next setup.' 'Well what about, we could maybe investigate?' 'Mmm… no, let's go.'
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
- Nov 07, 2020
The founding of Graeae by disabled actors was a huge political statement that you forgot at your peril.
- Matters
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- Nov 07, 2020