Why Quotes

What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.

Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment.

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona.

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

There's a reason why Hasselhoff was in a suit for twelve years, and there's a reason why Donald still has his hair that way. I'm tellin' ya. They're both sexy.

I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.

OK, he and Katie fell in love, they're getting married. Why is this in the news? Why is this a big deal? Is there something unusual about meeting someone and falling in love?

Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night!

Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

I find that the majority of the actors I've worked with are extremely sensitive people and very spontaneous people. That's why I always say I'll never date an actor, because they're in love with you one day and the next day they're not.

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom.