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Ten years before 'Matrix', ten years before 'Crouching Tiger' - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie.

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.

I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.

I came back after my surgery, throwing four to six miles harder than I did before.

You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out.

Before you throw it away, let Mighty Mendit save the day.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.

The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.

That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me.

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.

I've always joked about Joe Montana not appreciating his Super Bowls nearly as much as I do because he never lost one. We lost three before we got one.

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.

I don't know, 53 years with the same human being? I can't be around myself for more than three or four hours before I want to kill everybody.

I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.

And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.

There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East.

What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.

In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas.

In a way it costs thousands dollars before you could actually go out to put the show on because you'll need equipments, all the lights you know, and that's more just going out and playing you know.