Tell Quotes

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?

You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK?

Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors.

Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.

Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics.

I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.

I can't tell anyone to vote.

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.

The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an absolutely incredible feeling. I can honestly say I did it.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.

Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.