Figure Quotes

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.

Well, you have absolutely no idea what a nightmare it was to be on a set, trying to figure out how I was going to find out what time it is, how I was going to get my meds, and at the same time not have it be obvious to someone.

Mitch Hurwitz was like a father figure to me. He was so sweet, and he's just so smart.

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.

A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They have a strong enough support system to keep going and keep moving forward. And some people, they feel like they don't have that outlet.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear.

I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.

I like people who are fit. I figure if I work out, you can at least return the favor. Would I go out with a meathead? No.

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out.