Takes Quotes

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that.

Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.

Smell is so powerful, you know. My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.

Remember, it's very simple to have an oven tested professionally, and it only takes about five minutes.

It's quite pretentious, really, isn't it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.

Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about.

It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

True change takes place in the imagination.

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.

Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what's interesting is it, it takes away the power, from the newspaper magnates, so be it Murdoch or whatever. I mean, it's like the people taking it back. Isn't it?

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own.

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.