Laraine Day Quotes

Gary Cooper turned out to be the surprise of my young life. He was so convincing with his stuttering, stammering awkward little boy manners. When the action called for Dr. Wassell to kiss me, I got all set for a bashful boy kiss. Well, it was like holding a hand grenade and not being able to get rid of it! I was left breathless.

Laraine Day

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• Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Small
  • Popular
  • Chess

• Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

  

  Kanye West
  • Music
  • Power
  • Basketball

• A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Power
  • Healing
  • Medical

• Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Family
  • Political
  • Me

• Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Audience

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Politics
  • Accountability

• The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Universe

• I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Death

• Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Same
  • Measure
  • Selling

• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Personal

• Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.

  

  Iman
  • Alien
  • Multicultural

• I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Lazy
  • Shoot

• We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • World
  • Born
  • Profit

• The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Famous
  • Theatre

• My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Star
  • Company
  • Parking

• I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

  

  Jerry Spinelli
  • People
  • Writing

• 'I got my pecs, I got limos, I got bitches, and all my limo's powered by bitch juice, and my spare pecs are in the limo.' … 'I'm gonna fuck you up. I'm gonna dig up your dad, and shove him up your mum and drink your blood from a drinking cup, you fuck!'

  

  Dylan Moran
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Drinking

• Dates used to be made days or even weeks in advance. Now dates tend to be made the day after. That is, you get a phone call from someone who says, "If anyone asks, I was out to dinner with you last night, okay?"

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Night

• Being honest with the public is how they respect you.

  

  Angel Haze
  • Respect

• Gary Cooper turned out to be the surprise of my young life. He was so convincing with his stuttering, stammering awkward little boy manners. When the action called for Dr. Wassell to kiss me, I got all set for a bashful boy kiss. Well, it was like holding a hand grenade and not being able to get rid of it! I was left breathless.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Life
  • Action
  • Hand