Wilford Brimley Quotes

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.

Wilford Brimley

• Job
• Everybody
• Leaves

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • House
  • Reason
  • Constitution

• I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Great
  • Think
  • Stop

• 'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • World
  • Great
  • Learning

• The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Child
  • Slavery

• There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • War
  • Military
  • Period

• Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Dance
  • Exercise
  • Active

• I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Talent

• When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • House
  • Interesting
  • Wife

• I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Think
  • Film
  • Role

• A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Things
  • Inspiration
  • Banal

• I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Life
  • Service
  • My Life

• No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Long
  • Peace
  • Violence

• It's like deja-vu, all over again.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Like
  • Over
  • Again

• 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

• They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Strong
  • Memory
  • Digital

• We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.

  

  Earl Warren
  • May
  • Know
  • Story

• Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.

  

  Rumi
  • Life
  • Balance
  • Letting Go

• Writing-wise, I started when I was 17. Whatever was bothering me, I could just write about it in a song. I was in the west suburbs of Chicago, then I moved an hour south, and then I went to school up on the South Side - Saint Xavier, though I was at Purdue for a second before I dropped out.

  

  Kiara Saulters
  • Up
  • Writing
  • School

• It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Good
  • Music
  • Job

• As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Job
  • Experience
  • Personal

• Always I remember when I am young, I ask my mother, 'I really want to be a dress designer.' In that time, was quite difficult because, you know, my family always criticize me for it not to be a man's job.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy
  • Time
  • Family
  • Job

• Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.

  

  Wilford Brimley
  • Job
  • Everybody
  • Leaves