Took Quotes

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

The last really expensive trip we took was so uncomfortable. It's so lazy. I want somebody to give me a great $30 massage as opposed to a bad $265 massage.

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

You took care of your horse, and your horse took care of you.

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade.

I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.

When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering.

I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.

The Busted thing happened when I was 16. I saw an opportunity, took it and it was better than being at school. It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

This was all the inspiration it took: We put 100 percent of ourselves in the lines. We personally take care of everything, from fulfillment to answering the mail.

It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

Really, in a way, I took over the male role.

I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.

My dad took me to my first movie.