Once Quotes

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this.

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.

Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.

I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.

They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.

I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.

If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Once I got to the OTC they knew more about the physical aspects of shooting, and knew which muscles were more important to have trained and geared us a program around that.

Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.

I remember my first acting class: I was like, 'That's it.' If I know that I want to do something then I'm going to do it and there's no stopping me, whether it's if I want to take a movie part or don't, or eat sushi for lunch or don't. There's always a very clear goal. Once I figure out what I want that's it.

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.