Up Quotes

• If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities.

  

  Kevin J. Anderson
  • People
  • Family
  • King

• Often, in horror films, the single most effective device for building a sense of scariness is the soundtrack: the clanking of chains, the groaning of off-stage ghouls, the unmistakable sound of a cannibal rustic firing up a chainsaw.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Up
  • Single

• My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And she'd come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Time
  • She
  • Church

• I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Real
  • Actors

• I grew up feeling Israel is very important, and I'm very supportive of Israel. At the same time, I think you can be really supportive of Israel and not look at it as a black-and-white situation.

  

  Darren Star
  • Time
  • Important
  • Black

• I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

  

  Jim DeMint
  • People
  • Up
  • Rose

• My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: 'Yeah, why not?' I hadn't watched it, to be honest, but I'd seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.

  

  Joanne Froggatt
  • Good
  • Great
  • Family

• To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.

  

  Andrew Cohen
  • Up
  • Tree

• And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

  

  Marc Newson
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Surfing

• You can pass on my respects to the grand mufti, but I will not cover myself up.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Up

• I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were simply made up - and I realized that many parts of the story of the early Christian movement had been left out.

  

  Elaine Pagels
  • Faith
  • Growing
  • Christian

• I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

  

  Mel Smith
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Theatre

• I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Star

• Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Good
  • Serious
  • Problems

• I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

  

  Jessie J
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Hair

• I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

  

  Matthew Macfadyen
  • Up
  • Party
  • Birthday

• But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Different
  • Experience

• Pittsburgh, for a while, became a production centre. There was one $400 million year. Hollywood was bringing productions in there. Films like 'The Silence of the Lambs' and 'Innocent Blood.' So my guys, the guys I worked with, were able to have careers and live at home. But then it dried up, and a lot of my friends left.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Live
  • Home
  • Friends

• I grew up as a man because I was by myself.

  

  Benjamin Clementine
  • Up

• Country music as we know it would be vastly different if it weren't for George Jones. He's in our musical DNA. All country artists will have to figure out how to even begin to live up to his kind of legacy. 'Honky Tonk Heaven,' here he comes... though we're not ready to let go.

  

  Pam Tillis
  • Music
  • Different
  • Live

• You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently.

  

  David Boies
  • Up
  • Done

• It would be pleasant to be drunk:faithless to my tongue and hands,giving up the boundariesfor the heroic gin.Dead drunk is the term I think of,insensible,neither cool nor warm,without a head or foot.To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.I will try it shortly.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Giving
  • Cool
  • Fool

• The number of African Americans in Silicon Valley is dismal. It's not up to one company - it's up to the entire industry to make sure that we are moving the conversation forward. Sometimes those walls of competition need to come down so we can move the entire industry forward.

  

  Bozoma Saint John
  • Up
  • Moving
  • Competition

• Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me to live through the open racism of the time.

  

  Cybill Shepherd
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

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