Things Quotes

Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.

I don't know if I was a star. I was certainly working a lot and that was strange because there were good things about it and things that were difficult.

I believe things will work out for us if we just believe in ourselves.

Finn regarded pesky little things like wedding bands, engagement rings, and jealous, hulking menfolk more as amusing challenges than immovable obstacles that could be hazardous to his health.

You're supposed to look a certain way when you're a celebrity, but I want to take care of my baby, and those two things don't mesh very well.

I'm very comfortable with being productive. I like doing things, and I like creating things. As far as being powerful, I guess I'm comfortable with it. It's not really how I think of myself.

For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.

Lots of people support me and I forget. But sometimes things happen and I remember, and they say I encourage them, it makes me feel very happy.

I've been involved in the sport since I was seven-years-old and I have learned so many things in life from it, such as making friends and discipline.

I have no regrets. The best thing to happen to me was for Lorne Michaels to hire me and fire me.

It's just thinking of funny things that will amuse us and entertain us and we'll come and do it.

The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you’re always asked to do what you’ve already done.

I collect old first and second World War artifacts and things. I'm a little secret history nerd. I've been lucky enough to do quite a few war movies too so I've taken little things off each film.

I'm in a position to work on good things. I've worked on shitty projects, in the past. But, it is what it is. I'm just taking it as it comes.

One of the great things going on right now is social media and you get a real sense, immediately, about what people are feeling and thinking.

For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.

I'm able to really enjoy the wonderful things happening to me and that's a great blessing.

Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.

I think you've got to be honest with yourself at what you're good at. That's the hardest thing to do.

One of the great things about Ben & Jerry's for me is that not only is it delicious, but I get it for free.

In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing normal things to look freakish and the freakish to turn mundane.

This is one of my big things of creative pursuits. You have your idea you want to do, but then you got to figure out what does this thing want to be? You got to let it lead you a little.

Work is the least important thing and family is the most important.

Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something.

People are going to do stupid things, but you don't take away the freedom because somebody makes a stupid decision.

Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive.

I'm really good at being sarcastic with guys. That's the best way to hang out with them, because that's what guys . They don't want the quiet, prissy little things.

I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business.

I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.

I like to challenge myself and I like to try new things.

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

A little bit is not that much to ask to make things right.

The crazy thing is, I never knew that a wiener could actually make me nauseous.

Because people fear those who are different. And fear can make people do stupid things.

I can't eat before I go onstage because I've learnt that burping on stage isn't a good thing. It's all about acid reflux.

I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window; the music of a room full of people chatting; a horizon.

I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.

I feel that things happen for a reason and open up new opportunities.

When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. Own a Picasso was one of those things.

And I specialize in fixing things up and restoring them to their former glory.” She wondered if that talent extended to humans, maybe even humans who never really had a former glory.

She [Hillary Clinton] is actually got the track record for doing the crazy things that Donald Trump talks about.

I feel like my dad was the more artistic one, creating his own thing, loving to be around people, and all this stuff, doing exciting things, and my mom was more of the performer.

Making that statement of 'I'm not afraid to be untamed.' It's just kind of the marriage of those two things.

Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.

Whenever it gets too dark, think of the good things you have, the good times you've had. It will help. I promise.

Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.

My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.

I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.