Told Quotes

When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge, let's go after it.

We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.

We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son.

The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.

I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was putting most of my energy into that instead of acting. But my father told my sister and me to look at whatever needed to be done and do that job well, no matter what it was.

I got in touch with my agent and told him I wanted to start going out on things again.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they're going to see it, especially her guy friends.

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children.

The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition.

If you put out 150 percent, then you can always expect 100 percent back. That's what I was always told as a kid, and It's worked for me so far!

They told me I gave the best milk mustache of anybody.

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.