Actually Quotes

Well, actually yes, in 1988. There was a warrant for me because my assistant hadn't paid a ticket of mine.

I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

I can't believe I actually was in my own movie.

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

I've raised my girls in a sort of genderless fashion. I mean, I'll take them to get their nails done - I actually love doing that - but I also play ball with them. As a result, my girls are tough and athletic and game for everything.

But Freedom Strike was actually quite cool.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention.

Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.

I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

You see, I don't know how to ride a motorcycle, actually.

I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid.

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.

Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.

It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.

I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had.

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

I actually feel I've been unbelievably lucky in love.

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.

So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.