Actually Quotes

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.

I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

Somehow, it seems that the sadder a song is, the happier I feel. The release of emotions that many would label as 'negative' is actually a liberating process for me.

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

I actually am always a music first person.

I actually eat a lot.

The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them.

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.

I have actually five honorary degrees.