Getting Quotes

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.

And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere.

This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.

I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

It's based around a Jewish family but it really is a universal theme about getting along and coming along.

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.

I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll.

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.

We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

We were telling everybody we weren't getting back together when we were in the studio actually recording. We wanted to try it on, to see how it would fit.

I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out.

No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.

It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank.

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.