Up Quotes

• If I have my way, I want to go start making really interactive television. Stuff where you can sit and watch real actors do a real series and they can get into some kind of gun battle and all of a sudden your television prompts you to pick up your controller and all of a sudden, you're playing a first-person shooter.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Real
  • Want
  • Start

• When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.

  

  Brigitte Nielsen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Money

• And especially, especially, don't fuck with vegans. Do not look vegans in the eye. If you get into an argument with a vegan, say 'I'm wrong' and run away as fast as you can. Do not fuck with vegans because they will fuck you up...BECAUSE THEY'RE HUNGRY.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
  • Vegan

• I definitely want to have kids. I've grown up around lots of people who were having kids when I knew them, because a lot of them were a lot older than me. And I saw the wonderful change in them.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • People
  • Up
  • Kids

• You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

  

  Keith Urban
  • Different
  • Done
  • Wish

• I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Fun
  • Dog
  • Walking

• Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • People
  • Music
  • Funny

• I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm not one of those people who says, 'I've got to write a song every day.' I just store up ideas, and really I have to wait until it finds me; I know when I'm ready to write. It used to frustrate me, but it doesn't any more. It's just how it is.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • People
  • Age
  • Song

• When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Girl
  • Morning
  • Wake Up

• I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as that. It's just like if you're watching something moving, and you feel yourself welling up. It's the same thing. You're just being carried along with the story. There's nothing magical about it. I think I'm in touch with my emotions, and I can't help it.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Help
  • Simple
  • Moving

• Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Time
  • She
  • Lost

• When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Great
  • Music
  • Growing

• Now I'm on television, I'm far more conscious of my skin than I used to be - I would often leave the theatre with layers of pancake make-up still on my face, but on a medium such as TV, I have to be more fastidious.

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • Up
  • Theatre

• The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And that's what I was getting sick of-the whole analyzation thing.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Sick
  • Media
  • Labels

• I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up.

  

  Cheryl Ladd
  • Family
  • Strong
  • Growing

• I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Summer

• There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us having different abilities. One thing that would make me feel united with them would be the sense of us having grown up in isolation.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Up
  • Different
  • Together

• We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona.

  

  Charlie Day
  • Up
  • Live
  • Worry

• There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Song
  • Ideas
  • End

• I get egotistical about things where I can do something well - for example, my singing. Most other things, I don't have the wherewithal to back it up.

  

  David Crosby The Byrds
  • Up
  • Singing

• Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

  

  Joe Abercrombie
  • Up
  • Book

• If something knocks you five degrees out of whack, the journey of a thousand miles that begins with a single step ends up thousands of miles away from its intended destination. 1

  

  Dave Sim
  • Up
  • Single
  • Journey

• Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.

  

  Irving Paul Lazar
  • Morning
  • Wake Up
  • Lunch

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