Tell Quotes

It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?

I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.

I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.

I can tell when men are threatened by my height.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.

I'm not quite that difficult, even though maybe I'm a little bit bossy. But you know, in order to get things done, you do have to be a little bit bossy sometimes or tell people what you really want. Otherwise, things just don't get done, do they?

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.

Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition.

The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That.

You have so much to share, you have so much to tell, you have so much you want to expose, so much that's inside that you've learned from that life period. There are really very few people I can share that with.

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.

And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.

You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.