Up Quotes
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America has to stand up and decide if we want to be a socialist nation or if we're going to be a free nation.
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I am a very bottom-up thinker.
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I don't think much about politics as such because it has no room in our working processes. Eventually, our cases will have to stand up in court. And court will hear nothing about politics.
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In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.
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Shane talking to Claire - "Hang on - Slow down. I'm not going anywhere. You know that, right? You don't have to put out to keep me here. Well, as long as you eventually..." "Shut up" Claire said.
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If there was ever someone to look up to, it's Tom Hanks.
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I'm consistently blown away by 'Mad Men.' Having spent so much time in the writers' room, I'm cursed in that anytime I watch something, I'm always calculating what the writers are up to.
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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.’'
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Of all bugs, growing up I just loved the pill bugs. They roll up, you play with them, you wait for them to open up, and then when you touch them they roll up again. I just love that.
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I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to the, obviously, the individual.
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I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine.
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As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.
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We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
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I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.
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Things have got to add up to 100 points. The script is part of it, the character is part of it, the people I'm working with is the third part of it - and any combination of the three has got to add up to 100 points.
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Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.
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I started a deli when I was 19 years old. Kevin O's. The sandwiches at Kevin O's were a little like Subway before Subway - fresh baked bread. My best seller was turkey with cream cheese and artichoke hearts. I just made it up.
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I always say that the stand-up world is the arena of the unwell, and it is.
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Someone up there likes me.
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You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.
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I remember my mom let me stay up late and watch Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan compete in the 1998 Olympic Games. I made paper medals and wore them the whole night. I didn't start skating until 2000, but I was so inspired by their skating that it was why I wanted to start.
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My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhance what she had.
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I think the first three Rickenbacker basses were imported around 1964. Pete Quaife, the bassist for The Kinks, bought one. Then John Entwistle from The Who bought one. As for the third one, I asked the manager of the store if I could get an employee discount. He said I could, and so I picked up that one.
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Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
