Somebody Quotes

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.

Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

I may see somebody in a club one night and go, Wow, she's the most attractive girl I've seen in a long time. Then I'll see her the next night and be like, Oh no, I don't think so.

If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me.

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

Well, there's not a day goes by when I don't get up and say thank you to somebody.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

But I like to know that someone is stronger than I am. I want to be able to know that if I get tired, somebody is there to hold up the fort. I like knowing that I can't pick a refrigerator alone. God did not make me strong enough to do that.

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.

I'm a Conservative who believes in lower taxes. They lead to a more enterprising economy. But I'm not somebody who believes you can fund lower taxes by borrowing more money.