Taken Quotes

Im not the kind of person to just sit back and lose something I worked hard on, so, naturally, Ive taken steps to be further involved in a process when most actors arent.

I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.

It was hard to be taken seriously being model-turned-actress. I needed to work on my acting chops. There are so few parts available that are good for women.

I definitely think that being a model makes it more difficult to be taken seriously. And I understand. I don't take it seriously sometimes.

Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.

You cannot compare any leaders in America to what Vladimir Putin has done. This is a man and a regime that has taken down a passenger plane in Ukraine, killing hundreds of people.

Everyone wants to win, but I think winners believe they deserve to win. They've made the commitment, they've followed the right path, and they've taken the right steps to be successful.

It’s funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening to her, merely a pervading sense of flow.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

The state has no wealth it hasn't stolen, and the state has no assets whatsoever, except those which individuals have created in the first place and the state has taken.

It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.

Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has taken the romance a good deal further than most.

Freedom was taken away from my family until we landed in America and it was given back to us.

I'm with a man who's evolved enough to look at my body and see it as more beautiful because of the journey it has taken.

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

I think there needs to be more care taken for the actor. You know, we are not props!

I wouldn't call it a silver lining, but with more women speaking up, online harassment is beginning to be taken more seriously.

He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.

Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do.

There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.

Once your health is taken away, you have nothing.

Writing is not complete when you've added everything you could, but rather, when you've taken away everything that is not needed.

I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.

I've always taken risks and bought property well. As journalism wasn't particularly well paid, buying homes and selling them for profit improved my income.

The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.

While the photos at the D.M.V. (New York) will still be taken in color, the engraving is done in grayscale, hence the Ansel Adams feel.

We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

They’ve taken their own precautions against Al Qaeda. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house.

Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.

America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.

I have taken to living by my wits.

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

Nothing is taken care of forever.

I wanna do a movie! Anything that I connect with, really. I read scripts, I've taken some acting lessons, and I feel like that's definitely my next goal.

The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

Scripture tells us to "run with endurance the race that is set before us." As we do, may God hold close those who’ve been taken from us too soon.

I think Barack Obama 'll talk about the actions that we've taken, not just since 9/11, but since Paris, to help keep the American people and American interests safe.

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.

Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.

They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.

I feel as if I'm in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.

I've done a bit of live action before but the fight sequences, the wire work and the physical regime were taken to another level [ in Doctor Strange].

I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.