Don Everly Quotes

That's the one part where being brothers makes a difference. It's just instinct. That's the charm of what the Everly Brothers are: two guys singing as one.

Don Everly The Everly Brothers

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• I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Dream
  • Woman
  • Matter

• I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Me
  • Always
  • Acting

• True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • People
  • Long
  • True

• One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Never
  • Terrible
  • Produce

• It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Learn
  • Better
  • Than

• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Being
  • Choice

• And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • Kids
  • Cool

• As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Different
  • Kids

• For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Man
  • Hotel
  • Heartbreak

• Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Care
  • Race
  • Hollywood

• I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Men
  • Women
  • Done

• I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Method

• My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Law
  • Husband
  • Wall

• Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Avoid
  • Context
  • Repeating

• People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Successful

• I find that even the simplest of dresses, if it has the correct seaming and the correct fabric, whatever shape or size you are, it can change the way you hold yourself.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Change
  • Yourself
  • Size

• I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • Good
  • Character

• I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe you're a diva. They can't believe after eight years, and eight albums, you're still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• The older I get and the more iconic the piece, I believe that it's wise to watch a bit and become inspired and take moments that feel so connected to the story and also connected to me that I feel like I can make a part of my own performance.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • Believe
  • Moments
  • Wise

• When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Listening

• I have no idea how I do anything. I never have. You know I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call "Don McLean" when I was probably in high school. And I have been doing this for 40 years, adding songs and writing things, cobbling together albums, doing live things, you know, albums and tours. And then I have records on the charts. I have no idea how this happened.

  

  Don McLean
  • Writing
  • Live
  • School

• I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Singing
  • Actor
  • Singer

• That's the one part where being brothers makes a difference. It's just instinct. That's the charm of what the Everly Brothers are: two guys singing as one.

  

  Don Everly The Everly Brothers
  • Singing