Else Quotes

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed.

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.

One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

I'd love to try my hand at something else.

People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else.

I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me.

There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don't want you to do anything else.