Up Quotes

• Breaking up is the hardest thing we do. It's the most important thing we do, in a way. You've got to embrace rejection, or you'll maintain a very limited life. It'll be very nice and neat - and very, very small.

  

  Laurie Helgoe
  • Life
  • Important
  • Small

• I like a naturalism to my dialogue and my comedy. I would rather have a few jokes sail by that might be more subtle than have every single joke hit hard. I would rather the comedy come out of character as opposed to feeling forced. Even if you're giving some laughs up for it.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Character
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• Boxers, man, except when I have to get dressed up. Then it's boxer-briefs. But never tighty-whities. Never. But dude! If they brought back Underoos? Dude, if they brought back Underoos, I would rock the Underoos. Like He-Man and Transformers and G.I. Joe and even like Dukes of Hazzard.

  

  Colin Hanks
  • Up
  • Rock

• There's the 7-year-old me that pretended to be Wonder Woman running around the schoolyard. Like, what an incredible thing to imagine that when the bully shows up or the villain, you would be strong enough to do something about it. But, also, you look like Lynda Carter while you're doing it - like, 'Oh, my God.'

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • God
  • Strong
  • Running

• You can't pick and choose who's going to win or who's gonna mess up.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Up

• I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Up
  • Hood

• If you don't pay your taxes and you don't answer the warrant and you don't go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up. I want everything the government does to be done, I just want it to be done voluntarily.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Up
  • Done
  • Gun

• I didn't grow up beautiful.

  

  Jennifer Flavin
  • Up
  • Beautiful

• If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

  

  Brent Spiner
  • People
  • Business
  • Today

• That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Silence

• I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

  

  Elliot Page
  • Up
  • Sports

• I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Up
  • Brother
  • Sister

• I've pretty much grown up on set, and my favorite part about it is being able to actually see how movies are made. I knew when I was about 14 that I wanted to be a director and that I wanted to go to NYU for film school. It kind of feels like it's been a long time coming.It's a relief to actually be in, because the college process is so hyped-up.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• I wrote 'Don't Stop' just like I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' - I didn't try to make either a hit. I just wanted to write a song I liked.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Up
  • Song
  • Stop

• We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • Life
  • Up

• Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Life
  • Up
  • Past

• I think most actors are very impressionable, and that's part of what we do is soak up other's behavior.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Up

• I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Children
  • Black
  • Light

• I'm a simple hillbilly. I don't like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I'm traveling abroad, like when I recently received a six-month writing fellowship to Iowa in the U.S., I like to cook my own food.

  

  Andrea Hirata
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Food

• No city owns me, you know what I'm saying? I'm from New York, but no city owns me. Nobody can bottle up my sound and box me in. Yes, I am a rapper, but am I a New York rapper? No. I am from New York, I love New York to death, but I will not conform myself to one place, no.

  

  ASAP Ferg
  • Up
  • Death
  • City

• Human beings are much better at breaking up than they are at getting together. The instinct to get together is very powerful, but it doesn't last long.

  

  E. Jean Carroll
  • Long
  • Together
  • Powerful

• I think filmmakers in general are, as the tools become more and more advanced, you're able to tell stories in a way that I think is more realistic. The technology just wasn't there up until pretty recently, and it takes a bit of time for the normal artistic way of approaching something to become a mainstream thing.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Technology

• I want 'Flesh Of My Flesh' to be like my connection to the community, I want to say what's on my peoples' minds, soak up all their pain. I've learned that when I take it all in, I can make one brotha's pain be understood by the world.

  

  DMX
  • World
  • Community
  • Pain

• I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a God that you can't measure up to.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • People
  • Up
  • God

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