Very Quotes

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.

The safe haven that al-Qaida has found in Pakistan is very troubling.

We are a very, very unusual species.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.

I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world.

Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

I think Americans are very patriotic.

I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

Actor's life is very long.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.