Up Quotes
-
That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.
Karl Urban
-
I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.
William Broad Generation X
-
Day-to-day, I don't wear make-up, my hair's not done, and I'm in ripped jeans and a Bonds tee. But doing red carpets is just part of work.
Courtney Eaton
-
I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.
Warren Littlefield
-
I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
Wanda Sykes
-
Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty.
Jason Reitman
-
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.
Leo Kottke
-
For example, European countries have still not yet really opened up their borders to products from these countries, something that is fundamental.
Ulrich Beck
-
I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.
Kurt Browning
-
I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.
Zendaya
-
A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an oceanic planet.
David Grinspoon
-
I grew up very comfortable in this bizarre, circus-like existence, but, as comfortable as I was, I was also aware of the struggles that actors go through.
Alexa Davalos
-
I would love to do films. It's just the way things happened for me - I ended up doing a lot of TV.
Meaghan Rath
-
I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.
Garry Hynes
-
The forces of division have begun to raise their ugly head again … It reminds me: We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. A lot of pent-up anger and mistrust and bitterness. This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things.
Barack Obama
-
Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem, I will continue to push for strong measures that beef up security at our borders.
Randy Neugebauer
-
A lot of people say video games can be stifling. Older people say, 'We had to go outside, and we had to make up stories!' For me, video games broadened my horizons. Playing 'Golden Axe,' I was those characters. I imagined myself being in that world, so honestly, it was a really good thing.
Kumail Nanjiani
-
You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.
Larry Page
-
I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
Zac Efron
-
The way that I grew up, we ate very whole, real, natural foods.
Darby Stanchfield
-
In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!
Dwayne Hickman
-
What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
Barbara Kruger
-
I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.
Marvin Hamlisch
-
I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.
Patty Griffin