Quotes with not-so-funny

Quotes 901 till 920 of 10331.

  • Carole Bouquet Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like I'm sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But it's not supposed to be that way.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ted Danson Acting is pretending that you're not pretending when you're actually pretending.
    Ted Danson
    American actor, author and producer (1947 - )
    - +
     0
  • Katharine Hepburn Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Skarsgard Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Disraeli Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
    - +
     0
  • William James Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
    - +
     0
  • William James Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
    - +
     0
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    German church leader and resistance fighter (1906 - 1945)
    - +
     0
  • Brandon Lee Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero's not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes - and no stakes, then you don't care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.
    Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
    - +
     0
  • Bryce Dallas Howard Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
    - +
     0
  • Cate Blanchett Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
    - +
     0
  • Billy Burke Actually shooting a 3-D movie is not different at all than making a 2-D one. You never really notice that you're making a 3-D movie. The terminology used around the set is a little bit different, but other than that, you'd never know.
    Billy Burke
    American actor
    - +
     0
  • Bernard Hill Actually, parts of New Zealand remind me of Suffolk. There's not many flat bits, but just the atmosphere there. There's a kind of a core tranquility about it, a kind of assuredness that this is fairly close to approaching the perfect way to be.
    - +
     0
  • Bahman Ghobadi Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
    - +
     0
  • Thomas Szasz Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
    - +
     0
  • Karl Kraus Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
    - +
     0
  • David Grayson Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
    David Grayson
    American journalist, historian and author, pen name of Ray Baker (1870 - 1946)
    - +
     0
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
    - +
     0
  • Angela Carter Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
    - +
     0
  • G. C. Lichtenberg Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
    - +
     0
All not-so-funny famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 46)