Figure Quotes

The real issue for the public is to figure out which narrative do we want. We can have a bigger government, if that's the public's choice. It'll just require higher taxes on every American. Do you want that, or do you want smaller government, smaller taxes?

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

There are actually times when there are crimes out there in the world and I find myself trying to figure it out and I ask myself, what am I doing?

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

For so long I wanted to win the gold medal.Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.

I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.

Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.

There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

When you're a young kid and you're gay, you're out there on your own. And you're trying to figure this thing out. And your parents typically aren't gay.

The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.'

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.

I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.

It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

I've heard all kinds of crazy rumors about myself. I've even heard that I'm pregnant! I've become real good about laughing things off - I figure I'd better get used to it.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.