Considered Quotes

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.

I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?

I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese.

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any.

When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.

I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one.

Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.

I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.

It's just that back then we didn't know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren't the one playing it, you don't get the credit. Now you'll start seeing my name listed as producer.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

Anything new is always considered the devil's tool.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.