Bill Macy Quotes

'Oh, Calcutta,' was one of the healthiest shows I've ever been in.

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• Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Year

• We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Community
  • Prison
  • Him

• 2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Promise
  • Number
  • Transform

• But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Play
  • Impossible
  • September

• I love Wiz Khalifa.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • I Love

• I think fine dining should be part of the community where it is, more than just for the people who are going to make a special occasion.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Think
  • Community

• Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• I felt that it was cool to even get to the point where I was able to audition on the actual 'SNL' stage. Looking back on it, I can't believe that I wasn't more nervous.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Believe
  • Cool
  • Looking Back

• Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Child
  • Perseverance

• I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes, and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Cute

• Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Islam has always been a part of America's story.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America

• Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous Prime.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Morning

• The American family will fear less, our national security will be more assured, and we won‘t let the Venezuelas or Nigerias or the Saudi Arabias or the Irans jerk us around by the gas nozzle the way they are doing it now.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Family
  • American
  • Fear

• I work quite diligently and wish that I were better and smarter. And these both are one and the same.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Work
  • Wish

• My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it.

  

  Ken Kercheval
  • Cancer
  • Smoking

• It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Time
  • High
  • Environment

• The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Work
  • Country
  • Future

• I was glad that I could be used as a focal point to possibly bandy around some ideas, and maybe people would open their eyes to Obama's socialist ideology. However, there were so many important issues to be discussed other than the 'Joe the Plumber, Joe the Plumber.'

  

  Joe Wurzelbacher
  • People
  • Important
  • Eyes

• You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.

  

  Kenny Rogers
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Live
  • True

• My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football.

  

  Dadá Maravilha
  • Football
  • Technique
  • Shooting

• 'Oh, Calcutta,' was one of the healthiest shows I've ever been in.

  

  Bill Macy