Adam West Quotes

I've played dinner theaters. I'm a working stiff.

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• Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Think
  • Stars
  • Talk

• I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Think
  • Way
  • Alone

• Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Celebrity
  • Realize

• Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Day
  • Movies
  • Museums

• One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Everyone
  • British
  • Dessert

• I do a lot of damage to my hair every day because of my work. I just noticed this huge change. It started getting thinner and it started falling out. I hit 30, and I literally felt like I was balding!

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Work
  • Change
  • Day

• If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Friends
  • Friend
  • Hand

• I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Weird
  • Find
  • Princess

• I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Always
  • Geek
  • Closet

• I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Time
  • Look
  • Open

• My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Job
  • First
  • Basics

• I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life

• There are ideas within Buddhism that are so incredible as to render the dogma of the virgin birth plausible by comparison.

  

  Sam Harris

• Jack Reacher stayed alive, because he got cautious. He got cautious because he heard an echo from his past. He had a lot of past, and the echo was from the worst part of it.

  

  Lee Child
  • Past

• This SimChuck is one suave bastard.

  

  Chuck Klosterman

• He wondered if that was what the moment of death was about, the noise of the world and then ease away from it.

  

  Colum McCann
  • World
  • Death

• The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Insurance

• The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Kids
  • Career

• Under the grand coalition agreement, some compromise will obviously have to take place for things to work.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Work
  • Compromise
  • Coalition

• I've always been quite an active person especially when I was younger. When I was in primary school, I used to play lots of sports. I was a sprinter and I did basketball and swimming and Gaelic football and things like that. So I always thought, I guess, that it would be fun to incorporate that much physical activity and work into a dramatic piece.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • School
  • Fun
  • Football

• I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.

  

  Celine Dion
  • Important
  • Thing
  • Roots

• I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don't practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don't study, don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave!

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Easy
  • Letter
  • Received

• I've played dinner theaters. I'm a working stiff.

  

  Adam West