Someone Quotes

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.

I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation.

I wouldn't want to criticise someone like Charlotte Church because she has done fantastically well, but personally I've always cared about the long term.

I still have five years to the end of my term. There are many candidates. There'll be a problem if it's supposed to be a European or someone from the emerging countries, the so-called BRICS. This will be decided, but please don't think Poland has anything to say about it.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.

Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.

I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts.

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

The boys are in such a mood that if someone introduced the Ten Commandments, they'd cut them down to seven.

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.

I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on "Friends" or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show.

Well, I wasn't just kind of standing in a queue at McDonald's and someone sat down and said, 'You're the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie.' I've been working in commercials for ten years.

I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more.

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

Greenspan tells us what to do. Someone should take him out and hang him.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.

It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

You can tell when someone has had a facelift and I haven't had a facelift, and I look like I haven't had a facelift.

I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.