Getting Quotes

Keep in mind that in 1975, when you became a cook, it was because you were between two things: you were between getting out of the military and... going to jail. Anybody could be a cook, just like anybody could mow the lawn.

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

If you have a little extra parking, I err on the side of getting rid of it in favor of having some more greenery.

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That's where I get my best ideas, maybe because I'm balancing my body.

I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brishing your teath is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.

Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.

Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

I stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare - about work, anyway - I always take that as a really good sign.

I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.