Getting Quotes

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?

Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing.

I've learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so private anymore, so it takes a little bit of getting used to.

I love getting told no 'cause then I fight even more.

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.

I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled.

The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.