Andrew-Lee Potts Quotes

Gary Oldman is my TV hero. The incredible thing about Gary Oldman is his versatility.

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• I want to resume the life of a shy person.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • Want
  • Resume

• Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Today

• Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Idea

• Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Character
  • Freaks
  • Galactica

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Really

• Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Knowledge
  • Me
  • Training

• We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Words
  • Food
  • Hero

• I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Greek

• My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Way
  • Say
  • Uncles

• I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Team
  • Going
  • Tough

• We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Red
  • Storm
  • Weapons

• As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Career
  • You

• I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Great
  • Think
  • Film

• Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Why
  • Trust
  • Should

• I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Way
  • Inside

• At State Bank, all decisions are collective decisions. I have created the comfort zone.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya

• I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Wonder
  • Hero
  • Green

• My absolute favorite growing up was Super Friends. The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Mind
  • Growing
  • Sometimes

• I've never shaped or crafted my music for any specific group of people. Whoever connects with it is fine with me. I don't care where they come from.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • People
  • Music

• When you are playing great, it's wonderful. Because you and your partner just want to go out and go (rubbing hands together) 'Who we got?' and off you go. But when you're playing badly, or your trust is dented, or your self-belief is gone, it's the worst (freaking) week in the world!

  

  Sir Nicholas Alexander Faldo
  • World
  • Together
  • Belief

• Gary Oldman is my TV hero. The incredible thing about Gary Oldman is his versatility.

  

  Andrew-Lee Potts
  • Hero