Somebody Quotes

If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me.

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

Well, there's not a day goes by when I don't get up and say thank you to somebody.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

But I like to know that someone is stronger than I am. I want to be able to know that if I get tired, somebody is there to hold up the fort. I like knowing that I can't pick a refrigerator alone. God did not make me strong enough to do that.

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

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.

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.

I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done.

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.

I love people who have goals. Somebody who's passionate about life and does their own thing.

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.

We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to.

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.