Had Quotes

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.

I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.

I had to work at everything.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

I went to see every angler on the bank to see how they were doing, to try to give them a few tips or whatever. But yeah, we had a lot of fun. It was definitely a good time and we're definitely going to do it again next year.

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?