Actually Quotes

Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.

When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

I like to take on the thing I don't like at the moment. I like to find something that looks wrong or feels off, something that I would never have done in the past, like brocade. And then all of a sudden, if we can make brocade work, then we've really done something, because I hate it. And that's just a reference. I don't actually hate brocade.

Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.

A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials.

There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Well, actually I don't care what surface I'm playing on.

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.

I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's actually quite fun to get rid of them now.

I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.

My problem is that I like technology, but I always have to ask myself, 'Now wait a minute, will I actually have any use for this?'

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control.

If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked.

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it.

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

More than seven months ago, our country learned that the horrors portrayed in Hollywood's make-believe world could actually come to life before our very eyes.

It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.