Takes Quotes

Ultimately you want to do something in life that people will remember. And with Buffy, I did that. I don't feel like I need to achieve something. I just do it because it's fun. And that takes the pressure off.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

It takes a lot of energy to teach.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.

I know what it takes to get to the top.

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

It doesn't matter who gets what. It's just a matter of doing what it takes to win.

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds.

The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

So it takes years to make a solid company.

Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.

After six, seven films, I started to get a little tired. Shooting takes a lot out of you.

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.