Pretty Quotes

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

I come from a pretty strange family.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.

My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

Once I grew from 6'1" to about 6'6", by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

I think the true rock fans are pretty loyal.

I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled.

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.

I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule.

Vegas represents the idea of America I had as a kid. The big cars, the pretty girls; everything is possible in Vegas.

My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.