Pretty Quotes

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.

There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.

I've been beat up pretty badly. Pretty badly. Yet at the end of the day, everyone says I'm doing a pretty good job.

The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

I always had the ability to throw a frisbee pretty well. I don't why.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Mary and I look eerily similar but other than that, the differences are pretty much night and day.

The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far.

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there.

I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.

That's pretty rewarding in itself coming from where I started. Obviously the next goal for me is to make the Olympic team.

They're pretty particular about what they show. They certainly edit the scripts and have conversations with the writers about what they are and aren't willing to portray. But the writers and the network are pretty much on the same page.

Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.

Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.

There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since.

In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.