Up Quotes
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There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.
Carol Leifer
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People think we just wake up looking perfect, but it's all about the hair and the make-up, staying in shape, and eating healthily.
Joanna Krupa
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If you are going to think the same as everyone else and do the same as everyone else, you will end up being the same as everyone else. In today's competitive environment you have to think a bit differently.
Lloyd Dorfman
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I am of the school that believes, for the most part, that gays are born and not made. That is, I believe - and there appears to be significant scientific evidence to back me up - that there is a genetic predisposition to be gay.
Peter Navarro
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I grew up just outside New York City in a very white town. In seventh grade, I got called Macy Gray. It really affected me, so I got a weave and wore my hair straight.
Jillian Hervey
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Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know that we can indulge ourselves in that fashion only so much. In the end, we read not for reading's sake, but to learn.
Joseph Brodsky
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I get mistaken for Amanda Holden; I've had that since I was 12. I get Carey Mulligan, too. We look quite similar, and she does 'Bleak House' and I do 'Cranford,' so people mix us up. I'm sure we'll play sisters at some point.
Kimberley Nixon
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When I first heard it, I thought that's extremely challenging, the vocal - it was almost hysterical, and it was so up there, the register, but it was absolutely fascinating. And I know at the time a lot of my friends couldn't bear it, they thought it was just 'too much' - but that's exactly what drew me in.
John Joseph Lydon
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I had grown up in a toy shop in Blackpool and then moved to London to do an acting course.
David Thewlis
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He drew himself up and said with dignity: 'We administer justice, Mr. Courtenay. And an ancient, basic tenet of justice is: ‘Better that one thousand innocents suffer unjustly than one guilty person be permitted to escape.’'
Frederik Pohl
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It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people. She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead.
E. Lockhart
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I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.
Chris Pine
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I grew up as a Christian, and one of the many things in Christian mythology that did not dovetail with real life is that human beings are not monochromatic in their being.
Brandon Victor Dixon
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My first book was signed up when I was 13, and I've been writing ever since. But penning the 'Halo' series has been so much more rewarding than I ever expected. For three years, from the age of 16 to 19, I poured my life, my experiences, and a love for the supernatural that dates back to childhood into these books.
Alexandra Adornetto
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Voice work is the best - no need to dress up, no audience, no pressure, nobody's judging you.
Kym Whitley
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Jared, allow me to share with you my philosophy of human beings. It can be summed up in four words: I like good people.
John Scalzi
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If you look at the copies of Churchill's speeches that have survived, they are heavily marked up. He was scrupulous about the impact of each word. He preferred short words and the repetition of short words. He knew everything about the techniques of rhetoric.
Anthony McCarten
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I loved doing 'Frisky Business.' I didn't come up with it. I think John Oliver and the writers did.
Jessica Williams
