Bill Engvall Quotes

his plan to prevent potential boyfriends from taking advantage of his daughter

Bill Engvall

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• I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

  

  Earl Hines
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Memory

• I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Reading
  • Vision
  • Daughter

• My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Time
  • Country
  • Why

• I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • House
  • Girl
  • Mom

• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Daughter
  • First
  • Old

• My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Life
  • Different
  • Mother

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Long
  • Record
  • Metallica

• When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Boy

• I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Girl

• She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Mother
  • Kind
  • Daughter

• My daughter loves singing above all else.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Singing
  • Daughter
  • Above

• I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm sorry to disturb you, but my daughter thinks you're in 'Harry Potter.' I'll say 'That's cool' and take the kid aside and say, 'I'm a witch. If you don't listen to your mum, I'm going to haunt you!' It's brilliant. I can scare kids into doing their homework.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Kids
  • Cool
  • Listen

• 'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.

  

  Kate Burton
  • American
  • Perfect
  • Beauty

• My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Daughter
  • Object
  • Flash

• Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Mom

• My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Important
  • She

• There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It's not just a solitary thing - it's become a family thing, too. It's about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter.

  

  Kelly Slater
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• I feel more beautiful than I've ever felt because I've given birth. I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this earth. The best thing about having a daughter is having a true legacy. The word love means something completely different now.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Different
  • True
  • Beautiful

• I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • True
  • Mother

• The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Problem
  • Best

• When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Work
  • God
  • Jump

• his plan to prevent potential boyfriends from taking advantage of his daughter

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Daughter