Once Quotes

Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion.

I would just love once to be called sexy. Just because it would make me something other than cute.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Just because we're on schedule is no reason to shoot bad acting. Someone once said to me, 'You're inconsiderate.' And I said, "Inconsiderate? Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.' It's a collective slap to a million faces at the same time.

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit.

All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock.

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

I love, love, love that you want to use your debit card. But to keep your credit score solid, you still need to keep a few credit cards and use them at least once every few months.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set.

Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

Every harlot was a virgin once.

Once the World Cup preparations begin there will hardly be an opportunity to do so, since we'll have to put all our energy into the team. We coaches have a list of priorities and dealing with the media isn't in the top five.

I once didn't work out for six weeks. It took me for ever to get the weight off.

I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next.

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.