Great Quotes
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D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.
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Ballet is only good when it is great.
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North Carolina has been so great because nobody asks me about work.
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I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choirs and just hearing all of those great big beautiful voices. And there was this one woman who could just wail. And I remember trying to sing like her when I was like going home.
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When I became a mum myself, I really struggled to find great kids' clothes. Everything was either gorgeous but impossible to actually get open to change a nappy and expensive or poor quality.
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I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.
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I am conscious about not getting typecast, but obviously I have to keep picking up great roles so that I don't get typecast.
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Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.
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My mother is a great hunter - she usually shoots our Thanksgiving turkey.
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Who wouldn't want to be in 'Star Wars?' It'd be great.
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Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.
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The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.
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I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.
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My mother didn't let me see color films. I saw a lot of black-and-white films. The first time I saw Basil Rathbone, I was completely taken. To me, that was the epitome of great acting, was Basil Rathbone - not only in Sherlock Holmes, but the Sheriff of Nottingham, and all the terrible characters he had to play alongside Errol Flynn.
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My great-grandfather was a man of great vision, drive, and native intelligence, with some human flaws amplified by limited education, limited social range, and questionable influence from some of his advisers.
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Nadal is one of the great champions - a class act.
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The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
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Shower scenes are great. Janet Leigh never took a shower again in her life after 'Psycho'.
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I know what it takes to move cities forward. It's not about rhetoric and great speaking, but it takes relationships.
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We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.
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Men, in general, are but great children.
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The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series, like 'The Wire' or 'The Sopranos.' There's one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots.
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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.
