Up Quotes

• I want to clear this once and for all. I was born in Hong Kong. I grew up in Japan and China. London is not home for me. I was there only for three years before I moved to India, but that's probably why I am connected with it. London is definitely not the place I consider my home. It's India that I consider home.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Up
  • Why
  • Home

• Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was.

  

  Jerry Leiber
  • Up
  • Black
  • Culture

• Yes, the people I draw don't have a wide variety of looks. Every now and then I'll spruce it up, like a woman will be wearing a two-piece suit as opposed to a one-piece, or a man will not be wearing a tie; he'll just have a collar.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • People
  • Up

• You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Heart
  • Art
  • May

• I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting in an argument with myself, throwing myself off a cliff, patching myself up and brushing myself off with an arm around my shoulder.

  

  Jim Cummings
  • Up
  • Job

• One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.

  

  Jeff Goodell
  • Pretty
  • Death
  • Nice

• Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Children
  • Hair
  • Childhood

• If I'm going to dress up, I like things that are quite long and classic. I like feeling dressed up and like a lady.

  

  Lorde
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Lady

• One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.

  

  Kenneth G. Wilson
  • Up

• Being gloomy is easier than being cheerful. Anybody can say 'I've got cancer' and get a rise out of a crowd. But how many of us can do five minutes of good stand-up comedy?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Cancer

• I'm still waiting for him to rock the white jacket with the rolled-up sleeves. I think it'll happen.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Rock
  • Waiting
  • Jacket

• I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better.

  

  David Strathairn
  • Up
  • Live
  • Trying

• The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Work
  • Fight
  • Three

• Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • You
  • Acting
  • Everyone

• In 1967, London Weekend Television asked me to head up their sports coverage. I got to work with guys like Brian Moore and Dickie Davies. We were the first ones to come up with the idea of the pundits' panel. Although, since I was one of the pundits, it's debatable how good an idea that was.

  

  Jimmy Hill
  • Good
  • Work
  • Sports

• If they opened things up and I could build a luxury condominium in Vedado, I would sell them in two hours here in Miami. Cubans in Miami would be the first to buy. In Miami, 80 percent of the people we sell to are foreigners. Havana is a city very similar to Miami... There's good music, good theater, good ballet.

  

  Jorge M. Perez
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.

  

  Phoebe Snow
  • Up
  • Baby
  • Sick

• I loved scary movies growing up.

  

  Katie Featherston
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Scary

• I am consistently impressed by reddit. I'd say on a near weekly basis, by little things. Whether it's - I absolutely love seeing the Photoshop jobs that people do. Not of silly cats, but of redditors who are like, 'I have this photo of like my mom. This is the last photo I took with her. She was in the hospital. Can any of you clean this photo up?'

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • People
  • She
  • Mom

• I've seen tennis clubs close in Manhattan and garages put up in their place, and I'd sure like to be part of reversing that trend.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Up
  • Tennis

• It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • You
  • Courage
  • Face

• Whenever you're starting a new show, you have these awkward first lunches and meetings that are sort of mandatory, and everybody shows up, but nobody knows each other.

  

  Lizzy Caplan
  • Up

• When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with. Of course, as the years go on, we come to find that we become our parents.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Parents

• My mom brought me up on old Hollywood. I had been living in Los Angeles, respecting old movies and growing up with people that were icons that I got to speak to.

  

  Lily Collins
  • People
  • Growing
  • Mom

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