Somebody Quotes

When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo.

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it.

Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.

A lot of beefs in the music industry are caused from miscommunication and just not really understanding what's going on, having people in your ear saying this is what somebody did, or this is what somebody did to you.

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.' So that was nice.

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!

When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.

Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly.

Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.