Pretty Quotes

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.

Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.

Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.

I'm ordinarily pretty correct in what I say.

I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her.

The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

I have a new hobby and it's pretty much logging.

When you work on a movie, you just have no idea how it's going to come out; you hope it's good, but you don't really know, and you don't see it until about six or nine months afterward, and I saw it and was pretty pleased.

It's so cliche to say florals for spring. I really like a vintage-like dress that's floral. You can belt it; I like belts. I like wearing pretty dresses that are really comfortable, that you can spend the day in but also feel girly.

It's pretty overwhelming to know that people can call up Moviefone and find out where it's playing.

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

I thought it was pretty good to be mentioned in a big paper, so I decided to keep the nickname.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully.

I try to get them working. My older son is 10 and he's pretty interested. We had a dinner party the other night and he helped a lot. He helped peel asparagus; he hung out. It was great.