Bill Macy Quotes

Every actor has a method.

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• The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Today
  • Walk

• I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Art
  • Think

• I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
  • Thinking
  • House

• Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.

  

  Yuri Andropov
  • Feeling
  • Natural
  • Soviet

• The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Way
  • Know

• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Care

• There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Career
  • Song
  • Inspiration

• No one ever said movies are for developing your range. Hardly anyone gets that opportunity. Which is why I think the stage is so good. It's less bread, but you can play different types, and you can initiate your own projects.

  

  Sal Mineo
  • Good
  • Different
  • Why

• The cinematic language and interior destiny of each Iranian film-maker is different. The international influences on them vary from Rossellini to Fellini, Akira Kurosawa to Hou Hsiao-hsien, but there is a strong sense of solidarity.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Language

• Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Free
  • Sales
  • Electricity

• My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Up
  • World
  • Dad

• When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Test

• What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • American
  • Dream

• When I talk about the Internet, it's because young people are there. TV and radio are still what moves the masses, and you can't ignore that. But you also have to feed that monster that grows daily, which is the Internet.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • People
  • Daily
  • Internet

• Armies are not only for offensives.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Only
  • Armies

• I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Training
  • Watch
  • Adjust

• You know, I go around the country a lot.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Country
  • You
  • Know

• These are Fortunate Islands, These are lands without a place

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Well, Gaffer his early friend Mr. Wells, artist I see there will be no peace till I comply; so give me a piece of paper. There, now, rule the size for me, and tell me what I am to do. Mr. Wells told him: 'Well divide your subject into classes, say: Pastoral, Marine, Elegant Pastoral, and so forth..'

  

  J. M. W. Turner
  • Peace
  • Friend
  • Marine

• In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.

  

  Charles Lyell

• You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.

  

  Peace Pilgrim
  • People

• A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.

  

  Klaus Schulze Ash Ra Tempel

• I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands.

  

  James Black
  • Family
  • Hamlet

• Every actor has a method.

  

  Bill Macy