Able Quotes

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.

Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to be able to eat ice cream. I've got to have my cookies and cream! But I work out a lot, so I burn a lot of calories.

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

I'm working 18 hour days and I'm feeling guilty not being able to be there when all those times I want to be mother.

You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.

The only people I have been able to use are those who fought

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.

We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.

I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that.

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great.

As an actor, you're supposed to be able to form yourself into different characters and different roles. It's a transformation, and it is awesome.

And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.

I just can't wait to get out there on stage. There's no anxiety at all. I love being able to take this journey with the audience, because we all have a ball with it - even if we're crying

Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.

Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.

It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.

I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.

All I want is for everyone to finally be able to like their life smiling.

I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.

Don't you know. I am a ticking time bomb. I'm going to explode. This time, I may never be able to recover from it!

Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make it on their own.

Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs and borders, opening the way for an era of globalization.

One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

Once you close down your laboratory, you can't just rev it up again if you're able to finally get a grant.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed to be a great fighter, came to such an ignominious end.

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.

If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.

I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm just trying to be free with my expression.

Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.

When I entered the sport of boxing I wanted to be one of the best and be undefeated. And I was able to attain that, not just one championship title, but four.

I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.

I always have a sense of where I want to end each season, emotionally and relationship wise and with the theme, and I'm always able to hit that.

There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.

The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs