Getting Quotes

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

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.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

There's nothing more exciting as an actor than getting to do something that you're not entirely sure that anyone would let you do, and getting to take a big jump in a completely different direction.

I'm obsessed with getting married, but I don't even have a boyfriend.

I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.

I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.

When you're younger, it's about, 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's, 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.

However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.