Takes Quotes

Whatever it takes to win.

I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.

Even someone who works with me, like this girl who works with me, her name is Sue. She lives with me and holds the fort; she takes care of all these little things. She takes care of the money situation, and I would not be able to live without someone like that.

Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.

I've decided to lead in a way that takes people with me. It's the approach that I think will stand not only our party but also our state in good stead.

There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worrying about it.

The president of the United States, on Inauguration Day, takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws. Those are the laws that are passed by Congress.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

When I came back from filming 'Abduction', I told my agent: I'm staying in London now. If it takes doing children's theater from the back of a van in Kilburn, that's OK. I need to be with my family. My job is to keep the family together and provide for them.

You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.

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.