Pretty Quotes

I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.

I married a pretty famous girl, and when we drive through town there's usually a car following us, when I walk out of my front door in Chelsea there's six guys waiting for me.

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

Anyone can look pretty with hair and make-up.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!

This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.

I've won some pretty cool things in my life and I have a lot of great titles.

How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.

There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago.

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.

I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.

I just want to do something risque for my debut, purely because I didn't want to make an entrance being the pretty, sweet type that I've been seen as for the last 3 years.

I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.

I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high.

But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you.

It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself.

When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard.

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.

I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.

The difficulty for me is that I'm interested in so many different things. I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things.