Part Quotes

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Part of me would love to have been a leading lady because there's a lot of glamour that goes with that and a lot of applause, but I've been very blessed.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

I am a part of all that I have met.

My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

When Obama gutted Medicare by taking $717 billion out of it, the Romney plan does not do that. The Ryan plan mimicked part of the Obama package there, the Romney plan does not. That's a big difference.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

I think there is a part of life that I'm missing.

God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.

I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.