Simon Baker Quotes

If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.

Simon Baker

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• The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'

  

  Young Thug
  • School
  • Small
  • Dad

• Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Proud
  • Fans

• The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Want
  • Proud
  • Irresponsible

• Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!

  

  Malcolm Arnold
  • Proud
  • Favourite
  • Symphonies

• I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • Work
  • Proud

• I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • Money
  • Happy

• Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Proud
  • Countries
  • Cricket

• I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Proud
  • Company
  • Rules

• If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rand Paul filibustering for 13 hours, that was viewed as a fringe issue, as a quixotic issue, and yet millions of Americans engaged, spoke up, got online.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Think
  • Proud

• I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Being

• The team at ASCAP is a genuine family, and I am proud to be part of an organization that is home to so many legendary songwriters and composers.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Home
  • Team

• I feel so honored to be reprising the role of Janet Weiss and stepping into Susan Sarandon's shoes.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Feel
  • Shoes
  • Role

• I have an open door to meet with my constituents and that I work hard to respond to their needs, and I'm proud of the constituent service that we provide.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Work
  • Proud
  • Service

• People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • People
  • Women
  • True

• I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Write

• I hate it when bands do that; they're so proud of their new album, they have to play all of it and a couple of golden oldies.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Hate
  • Proud
  • Couple

• I'm close to both my parents and very proud of what they've achieved.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Parents
  • Proud
  • Close

• The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Together
  • Drama
  • Famous

• In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two.

  

  Woody Shaw
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Style

• For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic '70s, this image will be proven wrong when Mom and Dad remarry... Make no mistake. This is not to emphasize the sadness of my demise but rather emphasize the love of my family and friends.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Family
  • Love
  • Friends

• ...if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.

  

  Arman
  • Relationships
  • Phone
  • Solitary

• I loved pretending to be a middle-aged Jewish woman. I just wanted to do what I saw Gilda Radner and Carol Burnett doing. But I'm not a particularly good impressionist. It was never my strong suit.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Good
  • Strong

• If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.

  

  Simon Baker
  • Proud
  • Shoes
  • Sells