Getting Quotes

I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.

Each guy has his own space. We all end up in one of the other guy's rooms all the time. We always end up together, as far as people getting along.

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and they say, 'Great job, Mayor,' that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn't find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling - I think they should see the doctor.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.

I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat.

You know I think the president has to really focus on getting elected to a second term in 2012. And I need to focus on making sure I'm accountable to the people of Missouri.

Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

When I started training, I just started running every day, which you shouldn't do. I learned that lesson the hard way by getting a stress fracture.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of.

I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?