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The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
They say I spend too much money, so they take it and put it away for me. What do I spend it on? Oh, old records and presents and things.
They say I'm worth either €200 million, €100 million, €50 million or €10 million, but that's something between God, the HMRC and myself.
My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. Well I remember the '60s, I was there and I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
I'd like to do interesting indie films mixed with big, high-paying commercial blockbusters. 'One for you, one for me,' is what they say.
When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.
I've been beaten. I know what that's like. They say, 'Who has been a nail can learn to be a hammer.' So I know what it is to beat people.
Short boots are cool, in my humble opinion. They say, 'Hey! Winter is over, but summer hasn't yet arrived - so enjoy this halfway point!'
I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.
People used to say, 'Andy Serkis lent his movements to Gollum,' and now they say, 'Andy Serkis played Caesar.' That's a significant leap.
They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
People bug you all the time. Sometimes, it's a good bug, when they say you're doing a good job. When it's not a good bug, it's even worse.
Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. The words come out hard, like bullets.
When I joined in 1990, as they say in the sport of sailing, Puma was in the doldrums. It was a difficult time, and Puma had gone to sleep.
My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.
I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.
I love it when people come up to me and they say a line. Like, you know, 'My name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.'
I am quite a shy person. You say that to people, and they say, 'You do interviews, speeches. How can you be shy?' But, fundamentally, I am.
The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.
The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
Sometimes people stop me on the street and they say 'when are you going to make the next 'Zanaka' and it's what I really didn't want to do.
They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.
I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.
What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.
In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.
They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV.
If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.
Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.
I don't ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.
When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.
They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.
I hear from everybody, and they say 'Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.' We're not hired to fight.
I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.'
They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very rare.
If you're going out for a meal with friends, and they say they can't afford to go to such and such a place, you can't force them to afford it.
It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.
They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I've done that twice in my marriage but am still married.
I'm someone, the same as my girlfriends, when they say what do you think about this, I don't always say they look fabulous. I say what I think.
I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.
You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.
They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
They say 15 million people are watching the show, but what does that mean, you know? It's not until I'm accosted on the street that I understand!
Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.
I get a lot of calls from families and people who have served time and they say, 'Thank you, Sheriff. I hate the tents.' That's music to my ears.