Up Quotes

• Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

  

  Brion James
  • Why
  • Business
  • Small

• The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Friend
  • Cool
  • Body

• Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.

  

  Mac Davis
  • God
  • Real
  • Pretty

• Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Success
  • Fall
  • Positive

• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Trying
  • May

• 'Prom' is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers' lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It focuses all their struggles and the social pressures that prom creates on their lives.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Movie
  • High
  • Leading

• Basically, I think some of the weight helped take some of the walls down in reality, so basically I got a little more confident. I'm definitely not super confident, but I am confident that I don't have to hide behind those layers of fat and that I can actually open up to people a little more.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • People
  • Up
  • Reality

• When I'm up on stage, I'm thinking more about my fans and about myself as a singer and an artist. When I'm at home being a daddy, the last thing I'm thinking about is being an artist. It is two things that I never really put together.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Together

• If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Reality
  • Support
  • Imagination

• I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Growing
  • First
  • Growing Up

• Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Running
  • Brother
  • Start

• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Country
  • Children
  • Commitment

• Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Growing
  • Listening
  • Growing Up

• I never brought it up when I coached, but I have close ties at Ohio State. Unfortunately, I even have a graduate degree from there.

  

  Bo Schembechler
  • Up

• I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

  

  Paula Abdul
  • Up
  • Character

• Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Best
  • Tough
  • Award

• Growing up, we had to work. If you wanted anything at all that was more than basic food and shelter, you had to make your own money.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Work
  • Money
  • Growing

• Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Growing
  • Childhood
  • Mountain

• Race differences show up early in life.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Life
  • Race
  • Differences

• As I say, if we bring up religion we’ll have differences; we’ll have arguments; and we’ll never be able to get together.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Together

• I grew up watching the films of 'Carousel' and 'Oklahoma' and 'The Music Man' and 'My Fair Lady' - all the classic musicals of that golden era, The sort of more modern musical theater, or what was modern when I was at a ripe teenage age, I wasn't really listening to that stuff. I was really more raised on the classics.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Music
  • Age
  • Listening

• My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • She
  • Mother
  • Deep

• The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • You
  • Cool
  • Office

• Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Football
  • Conflict

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