Figure Quotes

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.

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

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.

We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.

When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion.

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal,' the 'New York Times,' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

Educate yourself. Understand what you're dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for that fight. It'll help you cope. It'll help your child.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words.

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

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.