Head Quotes

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead.

I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life.

My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.

I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.

I offer my performance as prayer for someone I've worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.

I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is to say: It may be more complicated - but that's the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it.

I'm real critical of myself and if I take the bandana off my head I'm completely bald headed and go from being 58 to looking 68 instantly.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.

I've always been the type to fall in love fast and, with every boyfriend, I plan out my wedding in my head.

But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.

I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head.

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

There is kind of a typical experience as a premier. You go in, you win a couple, you get out. Go serve on boards, take your head out of the political ringer and take on a much more private life.

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.