Jim Cummings Quotes

I can picture the character in my head, and the voice just comes out.

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Think
  • Look

• I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Think
  • Enjoy
  • Choice

• If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Like
  • Say
  • Thanks

• Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Care
  • Love Is

• I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Because
  • Fan
  • Big

• The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • High
  • Earth
  • Me

• I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Life
  • Business
  • Running

• To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Game
  • Me

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Winning

• The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Jews
  • Were

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • American
  • Party
  • System

• I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Different
  • Power
  • Process

• The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Single

• When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Good
  • Party
  • Leadership

• I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Character
  • Dark

• The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first. In the moral life, as in life itself, we take one step at a time. Every field has its complexities and controversies. And so does ethics. And every field has its basics. So too with values.

  

  William Bennett
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.

  

  Adam Croasdell
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Film

• Touring can be really tiring. I can get homesick, and I spend a lot of time on my phone.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Time

• I feel I'm such a big part of that insecurity that some girls might have because of my job, that girls think they have to be that picture. And even boys, they think that that picture exists, and it's so frustrating because I don't look like that picture - I wake up not looking like that picture.

  

  Doutzen Kroes
  • Up
  • Job
  • Picture

• I can picture the character in my head, and the voice just comes out.

  

  Jim Cummings
  • Character
  • Picture