Once Quotes

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

If I don't feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn't box any more.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.

I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage.

Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

When fans come up to me and Vanessa, they're really sweet and ask for autographs - but once they see the guys, the girls tend to scream.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

I can't die but once.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts.

I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball!

I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house!

I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.

No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.

Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.