Lot Quotes

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.

During my first pregnancy, I spent a lot of time worrying about how big I was getting and how I would lose it afterwards.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

It's good to do things slow in the bush. It makes you appreciate everything a lot more.

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.

Some people are naturally thin, and some are heavier. There is a lot of focus on it, and it can be a lot of pressure for people. But honestly, I think as long as someone is healthy, that is most important.

I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?