Getting Quotes

With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.

I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment.

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage.

I'm getting out of acting.

I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.

I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster.

The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.

Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

Well physically preparing for the role, definitely and then continuing to stay physically fit throughout filming, getting up, 4.00 4.30 in the morning.

For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.

Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.

I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.

I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

If I'm nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it's playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.

The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.