I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it. – Brigitte Bardot
I just don’t think I’m equipped to soundtrack the times. There might be someone out there who can do that, but I haven’t cracked it. – Alex Turner
It’s always weird when you see a movie, and there’s no reason for someone to, like, jump on stage and be a singer, and then they just do that… But if it came organically, I would grab that mike and jump on stage for sure. – Candice Accola
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known. – Alan Dean Foster
One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it. – Ariana Grande
Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my three-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else. – Chevy Chase
I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and I think that actors really respond positively to the fact that I like to talk about that stuff, because I’m not sure that all directors do. – Charlie Kaufman
I was never interested in golf until someone brought up the Get Golf Ready program to me. – Ashton Eaton
Just because you’re upfront with someone doesn’t mean you’re an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat. – Brian Celio
Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess. – Callie Khouri
Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it’s debilitating. – Alanis Morissette
If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, ‘This is just a mess’, the word ‘just’ is not so good, but ‘mess’ might be right. Why not a mess? If it makes you say, ‘Wow, I’ve never seen anything like that’, that’s beautiful. – Albert Oehlen
If someone is making a judgment when they don’t have firsthand experience, it’s intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don’t know about? – Beck
It’s weird when auditioning for roles, because a lot of my mates go out for the same roles. You don’t want to know that you’re beating someone to the role. – Brenton Thwaites
When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn’t imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it’s still very isolated out here. – Andrea Hirata
About every four years, someone says to me, ‘I’ve got a friend who looks exactly like you.’ What can you say to this? – Arthur Smith
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. – Buddha
Touring a segregated America – forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most ‘cos you don’t realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person. – B. B. King
Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don’t like folks. – Albert J. Nock
Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don’t, someone else will. – Allan Sherman
If you have an embarrassing story, and it’s a source of shame, keeping it in just compounds the shame and turns the story into something poisonous. And if someone knows about it, then it can be used against you. – Aisha Tyler
I can hear someone’s voice once, and I can pretty much mimic them. Not to make fun, but I can do an impression of them pretty well. – Brittany Snow
I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing. – Chuck Palahniuk
Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and you can feel them and you know just what’s right, and generally it’s something that will be very unimpressive to a room of strangers. – Ashton Kutcher