Pretty Quotes

• I was made fun of for being fat from fourth or fifth grade to eighth grade. That was pretty rough.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• I think for me, at the end of the day, just because of who I am, my priority is the biosphere. That seems to be, for me, where I've ended up, and I've been there pretty consistently since I was a teenager.

  

  Anohni
  • Up
  • Teenager
  • Priority

• I used to have a voice because I was interviewing people and writing, but as soon as I got swept up in the fashion world, I was just a pretty girl at a party wearing a pretty dress.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • Life
  • Pretty

• I wrote a pilot for myself. It's about a Latina actress trying to make it in Hollywood. It's pretty funny.

  

  Melonie Diaz
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Actress

• A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.

  

  Francis J. Grimke
  • Good
  • Pretty

• We don't have anyone with bad haircuts, which is a good thing. Louis Delmas has some pretty nice dreads. He's a Florida boy, so they know how to do it. He gets the title.

  

  Nate Burleson
  • Pretty
  • Haircuts
  • Dreads

• Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

  

  Joe Flanigan
  • May
  • Pretty
  • Learning

• Hosting the Oscars is pretty much the scariest thing you can do. To me, this is right up there with bungee jumping!

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Up
  • Pretty

• Things felt pretty crazy on earth in 1969, but the cosmos was friendly. Astronauts had round-trip tickets; they got home.

  

  David Ignatius
  • Home
  • Earth
  • Crazy

• When I was a younger actor, I was pretty much solely motivated by validation. I just wanted to be told I was good and handsome and a part of the gang. It was pretty simple animal-social stuff. I don't care as much about those things anymore.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Animal

• Babies are born bow-legged in South Dakota. By the age of 12, they can purchase guns. At 14, they can take their driving test. Fortunately, since the geographical area of South Dakota can accommodate both France and Germany, but has a population of only 750,000, the chances of hitting anything are pretty slim.

  

  Clive Sinclair
  • Age
  • Pretty
  • Driving

• A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Question
  • Person

• I don't have many 'I wish I could.' I live a pretty good life. I'm pretty psyched on my life.

  

  Red Gerard
  • Life
  • Many
  • Psyched

• I'm pretty interested in documentary film, and I'd watch almost anything. At some point, I stumbled upon 'shoot interviews' and found out that wrestlers were now talking openly about things that were going on in wrestling that we as viewers were not privy to. This fascinated me.

  

  Box Brown
  • Pretty
  • Wrestling

• It's important to remember that, in the 1930s, a lot of people in the West looked at communism as a pretty good idea. That was partly because they didn't know how bad things were on the communist side of the world, but it was also partly because things were bad in the West.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I have a fairly limited drawing style. I'm not like my friend Derek Kirk Kim, who can pretty much change his style at will. My drawing style can handle some of my stories, but not all of them.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Friend
  • Style
  • Drawing

• The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.

  

  Mary Roach
  • Great
  • Book
  • High

• Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

  

  Bobby Knight
  • Pretty
  • Coaching

• They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

  

  Arthur Boyd
  • Pretty

• 'Rent' audiences tend to be pretty vocal. They scream and cheer a lot.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Pretty
  • Cheer

• I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that the character actually grows up during the course of the film. It's not just a character that you can keep checking in on and keep doing sketches about. It's a story. I'm pretty proud of how we told it.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Up
  • Long
  • Why

• There was one film that I really wanted. This was a long time ago; it was a film called 'Fracture.' Ryan Gosling ended up doing it with Anthony Hopkins. It wasn't a giant box-office success, but I really enjoyed the script, and I enjoyed the character. I got pretty close and was kind of disappointed it didn't go my way.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• In my everyday life, I'm pretty normal.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Everyday

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