Except Quotes

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.

I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.

My parents thought all actors were secretly drug addicts, except for Clint Eastwood, whom they admired. But they thought it was very unlikely that I would ever be Clint Eastwood.

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.