Quite Quotes

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.

I am quite a private person.

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently.

I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.

There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.

Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!

I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved.

In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country.

I got quite good results from protein plates.

There's been a lot of speculation about every single girl I'm with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it's a complete pain for the girls.

Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing.

It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

It's incredible, but I think a lot of people it shot over their heads 'cause they're used to just getting images and messing around with them, and for us to do something quite so 'designed' was a bit of a shock.

I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.

It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.

My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.

People bring up my hair quite a bit. It's strategically tousled. The flatiron is the key.

I'm certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I'm quite proud of.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself.

Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.