When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.

I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade.

I used to sing when I was younger. I left it alone for a long time, 'cause I was like, I don't even know if I know how to sing for real.

There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

How long shall we Spiritualists be turned over like so many scapegoats to the unbelievers, by cheating mediums and speculating prophets?

You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be held in a low estimate.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

Certain people have wanted to put me behind bars for a long time now. That's part of my work. If I were afraid, I couldn't do what I do.

When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.

As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.

Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.

Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.

There`s no joy to be had seeing any black man, any black man taking a perp walk, let alone some of whom meant so much to us for so long.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.

God's Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run.

society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.

I've been lying to you guys for a long time, saying I wasn't nervous and there's no pressure. There was a lot of pressure to do it here.

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before.

FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials.

Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air, a dry and stale, mousy smell.

Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.

I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back.

Here is their plan. Whistle a happy tune while driving us off a fiscal cliff as long as they are behind the wheel of power when we fall.

There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that.

A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.

My favorite movie is Lawrence Of Arabia. But that's a long, long movie. So although I've seen it several times, it's not as fun as Jaws.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow

I do think that a return to basic values and to a sense of who Greece - who we are as people can only be for the better in the long run.

The moral decisions of others should be treated with respect, as long as such decisions do not conflict with the principle of tolerance.

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.

Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.

God has promised to every single one of us that even in our hardest times, if we would just hang on long enough, the blessing will come.

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

Falling in love with Renee was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-a-long.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.

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