Up Quotes

• Don't get too caught up in the typical ideas of what makes a good drummer. Those things are sort of unattainable, and they're not always creatively your most useful things to know.

  

  Janet Weiss
  • Up
  • Good

• I owe a lot to my time on 'House of Cards' because, up until I booked that show, I had been working consistently for 12 years, but I wasn't working on anything that mattered in the way 'House of Cards' did to its audience, to casting directors, to directors and producers. The show hit this sweet spot.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • House
  • Sweet

• I grew up reading Proust all my life, and he's very dear to me.

  

  Chantal Akerman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reading

• We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Good
  • Long
  • Success

• I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Mother
  • Father
  • London

• I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Up

• I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars.

  

  David M. Brown
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Job

• I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks.

  

  Paula Deen
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Weird

• Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. "A bully with a charisma and top marks is still a bully." She sighed, annoyed. "He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • God
  • She
  • Help

• Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a police officer, a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close 'What are you guys doing on this corner at 1 o'clock in the morning' policing. We need to be careful it doesn't drift away from us in the age of viral videos, or there will be profound consequences.

  

  James Comey
  • Age
  • Strong
  • Morning

• My mother grew up strong. She was a charismatic leader among her peers, staging plays, organizing projects, raising money for charity; she was fiercely protective of her younger brother, with whom she shared a passion for jazz and rock and roll.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• I never worry about looking cool in front of a guy. I have never been a self-conscious girl. Goofing around is part of being comfortable with yourself. I've always been good at meeting new people. I just say, 'Hi, how you doing?' and soon we'll end up laughing about something.

  

  Ashlee Simpson
  • People
  • Good
  • Guy

• Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Up
  • Nature

• You have to learn to express differently. Whenever I do TV or film, I ask if I can see the shot to see, to see if it's full body or a close-up. That helps me understand how to communicate.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Up

• My dad taught me really early so I could take a lot of pressure off my elbow. Because the way I throw it, it doesn't crank up my elbow like everyone else's curveballs.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
  • Up
  • Dad

• I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Challenge

• Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

  

  Colin Hanks
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Comedy

• Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Average
  • Fields
  • Witch

• Growing up as a high jumper, I said if I could ever jump 2.40, I'd be pretty satisfied with my career. It's definitely a barrier for high jumpers.

  

  Derek Drouin
  • High
  • Pretty
  • Career

• I moved from acting to stand-up because castings are just about what you look like. It doesn't matter if you can act or not. In comedy, no one cares what you look like.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Up
  • Comedy

• For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors.

  

  Lloyd Bridges
  • Up
  • Time
  • Character

• Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sure Gryffindor and Hufflepuff are waiting to celebrate with you, and it would be a shame to deprive them of this excellent excuse to make a great deal of mess and noise.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Waiting
  • Bed

• Growing up, people would always say, 'You have such a pretty face.' It's kind of backhanded. That's the kind of things we have to stomach.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Growing

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