Somebody Quotes

Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.

I'm a Conservative who believes in lower taxes. They lead to a more enterprising economy. But I'm not somebody who believes you can fund lower taxes by borrowing more money.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him.

At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.

For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.

It's always tough for me to make a movie, and then sit on an airplane and watch somebody watch it on their phone.

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

When you work with somebody you have chemistry with, it's easy and it's fun. You hardly call it work.

If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.