Pretty Quotes
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I'm a big believer in playing truth and not doing things for effect. It's not about whether you look pretty or glamorous. It's about whether people connect. That's important to me in any work I do. For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing.
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My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman and a slick sharkskin suit. Believe it or not, that's how I decided I wanted to get into music.
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I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule.
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I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.
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I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
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Trying to put music out there in the world is a pretty exciting, yet terrifying, thing and I've just been through the ringer.
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I have very long legs and I hate driving anything unless it's a boat or an ATV in the jungle. I like to sit in the back of a car, where I can look out the window, answer my emails on my iPad, or hold hands with a pretty girl.
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At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
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The working-class aspirations are worse now than when I was a kid - and it was pretty bad when I was a kid. Reality TV means they are being told they are no longer a working class, they're an underclass. Young lassies want to be Jordan or Jade, but very few aspire to be the next Germaine Greer.
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We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.
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It's hard to think of a single human function that technology hasn't somehow altered, apart perhaps from burping. That's pretty much all we have left.
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I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence.
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David Frum, every now and again, comes up with something pretty darn brilliant.
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The need to do something about global warming is obvious. And it's also pretty clear that the public understands the need for change and is ready to embrace it. What is missing is political will in Congress to stand up to the powerful energy companies and their well-paid lobbyists.
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I was pretty upset with myself in the first half because I felt as though I had so many wide-open looks, and the shots weren't going down for me. In the fourth quarter, shots came my way, and I had my mind made up they were going to go in in the second half.
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No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.
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My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.
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A school morning is usually a pretty hectic time in any household.
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I believe evidence will show that he's innocent, Kevin Jones is a fine citizen, one thing you haven't heard, is anything negative about Kevin. He's holding up pretty good, considering he's accused of murdering the girl he loved.
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Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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My group of friends, we sort of go at each other pretty hard sometimes. And it's half performance, half truth that you can say cutting things to your friends that might be a little true, but as long as you package it in a joke, it becomes a little more palatable.
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When I come out to do my stand-up set, I pretty much get bombarded with lines from movies. You try to play off it a little bit, but that's what people want to see. Some clubs, the drunker the audience gets, the more they heckle.
