Chrissy Metz (Christine Michelle Metz) Quotes

If there was going to be a pioneer of the plus-size girl of my shape on TV, why not me?

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• The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Die

• In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Kids
  • Black

• If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Free
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

  Larry Brown
  • School
  • Kids
  • Worship

• There has to be a global mission of human progress.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Progress
  • Human
  • Mission

• Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Look
  • Early
  • Google

• Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Ambition
  • Meaningful

• It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Law
  • Know
  • Last

• If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Bad
  • You
  • Place

• Life is not easy in politics.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Easy

• I'm a political conservative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Conservative

• When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Poverty
  • Understand
  • Shows

• What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Girl
  • Boy
  • Parts

• Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Question
  • Person
  • Everyone

• When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.

  

  Tablo
  • Feelings
  • Daughter
  • Price

• All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

  

  Larry Cohen
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Same
  • Fast

• Pan Am takes good care of you. Marks & Spencer loves you. Securicor cares. I.B.M. says the customer is king. At Amstrad, we only want your money!

  

  Alan Sugar
  • Good
  • Money
  • King

• For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • World
  • Country
  • Home

• People would look at me weird. You know, like, 'Why is this guy's hands always in his pockets?' But I was embarrassed by the size of my hands.

  

  Jerry Rice
  • People
  • Why
  • Guy

• If there was going to be a pioneer of the plus-size girl of my shape on TV, why not me?

  

  Chrissy Metz
  • Why
  • Girl