Edward G. Robinson Quotes
The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that's what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.
Quotes to Explore
-
Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
-
The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
-
Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
-
I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
-
I love my sleep.
-
The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
-
Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
-
The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
-
When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
-
If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
-
It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
-
Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.
-
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
-
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
-
Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
-
I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
-
I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.
-
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
-
I love to go and mingle with the young In the gay festal room--when every heart Is beating faster than the merry tune, And their blue eyes are restless, and their lips Parted with eager joy, and their round cheeks Flush'd with the beautiful motion of the dance.
-
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
-
While I believe firmly in open markets and free trade, I also believe an open market needs a level playing field.
-
The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that's what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.
