Actually Quotes

People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors.

Actually, I'm happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That's a wonderful cooking store.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me.

I actually think I play better now than I've ever played.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game.

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now.

I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.

I always come across sounding like I hate my children. I actually love them very much.

There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.

No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.

I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work.

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

When we play "Angel of Death", it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

'Dr. Quinn' came along when I turned 40, so my career actually peaked then.

I've always been honest with all my kids. So I - if they did well, they did well. And if they didn't, actually, I asked, did you try your best? And if they tried their best, then, you know, I back out because I expect them to be honest with me or with themselves. And I can't make you go out there and work out hard.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'

At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.

I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.

But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out.

I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like.

I actually started, this year, doing some voiceovers. I did some radio spots, and some games.

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.