Getting Quotes

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.

In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

Getting fired is hard.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.

I love getting out on the streets and helping people.

Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.

For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

I enjoy getting riled up, and nothing's gonna do that for you like a good scary movie.

Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back.

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.