Often Quotes

The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.

In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.

Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.

Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.

I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.

Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

I've seen people go through divorces and stuff, crossroads that don't end well. Often.

Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.

I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!

Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress' negotiations often come slow or not at all.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

I often say, if I wasn't part of the show I'd be a huge fan of it.

The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.

But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

I often refer to myself as a gay man and all my friends are gay and I would like nothing more than for them to be able to be married.

Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.