Jim Nabors Quotes

I can perform whenever I want to, without the pressure of having to.

Jim Nabors

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• Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.

  

  Barret Oliver
  • Character
  • Want
  • Myself

• Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

  

  Mae West
  • Never
  • Two
  • Take

• God made them as stubble to our swords.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Made
  • Our

• It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Always
  • Reform
  • Bring

• Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

  

  Ovid
  • Why
  • Nothing
  • Details

• In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • Up
  • Country
  • Never

• I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Think
  • Opportunities
  • Actress

• I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Up
  • Great
  • Different

• While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Real
  • Change

• An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Live
  • Never
  • Athlete

• I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Character
  • Career

• The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Character
  • Truth
  • Action

• At one point, I had lost my confidence as an actor, and working again was tough. I started stammering due to lack of confidence. It took time, but things became better.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Time
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Problem
  • Trade
  • Bank

• It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Career
  • Build

• Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Power

• 'Are you all right, sir?' asked Hezekiah.'Just fighting over old battles in my mind,' said John. 'It’s the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I’m the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Fighting

• How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • World
  • Death
  • Free

• We can't be sure there will be free and fair elections.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Free
  • Elections

• Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

  

  Epictetus
  • Created
  • Bunch
  • Fig

• My signature fragrance would be herbal - basil mixed with rosemary and coriander. Some big stars have got perfume lines that smell really bad. They've got it all wrong.

  

  Valerie June
  • Bad
  • Stars
  • Smell

• Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

  

  Mayim Bialik
  • Style

• I can perform whenever I want to, without the pressure of having to.

  

  Jim Nabors