Once Quotes

Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Once you drink one glass, you want another.

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's the most incredible scene partner I've ever had.

I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.

It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family.