Best Quotes

Absolutely. It's something I'd eventually love. In the meantime, I just borrow all my friends' kids. It's seriously the best birth control in the world. I'm so tired afterward, I'm like, Okay, maybe in another two years.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life.

One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

I hate alarms. If they go off I get really tetchy. I hate them. They just get me going, I'm hyper at the best of times, but they drive me mad.

In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.

Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.

I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.

The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.

I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.

I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.

I loved Rent when I first heard it, but it grew on me and so did Tick, Tick... Boom. Some songs are more interesting than others and sometimes the ones that never stood out at first end up being the best to perform.

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.