I’ve been singing since I was born. It’s something I do everywhere I go. In the shower, walking down the street. I don’t need any impetus to do it. I just sing. – Idina Menzel
When all this fame first comes, it’s like being hit by a giant wave. You panic and think if you can just calm down and see where it’s going, you’ll be okay. Then you become more relaxed. – Julia Roberts
I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I’ve already figured out what it is I’m trying to do. – Joss Whedon
I’m the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, ‘What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,’ but apparently that doesn’t apply to me. – Jesse Ventura
I’ve learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it’s important to knock them down a peg. – Jonah Hill
All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can’t bat a thousand all the time. – Julie Andrews
The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny. – Hugh Grant
If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you. – Jonathan Zittrain
I do this ‘Walker shake.’ You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up. – Herschel Walker
Pepsi and Coke have to co-exist on the shelf for the long term because if they pull each other down, no one’s going to drink carbonated soft drinks anymore. – John Quelch
You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls – it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That’s because of gravity. – J. B. Smoove
Dinosaurs are built just like birds – they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides – birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either. – Jack Horner
Creating deluxe cuisine is like playing a sport. Always competitive. Always challenging. And if you slow down a bit, you can no longer return to the top level. – Joel Robuchon
It all comes down to what is best for those particular genres, and if you believe in the stories that you’re telling and the characters that you like that you want to tell those stories with, you can pretty much apply it to any genre. – James Wan
These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt. – John Sandford
When I turn down work, I feel guilty, I feel terrible; I don’t know where the next job is going to come from. – Joan Rivers
I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn’t get my mind around it at all. – Joyce Brothers
I don’t like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out. – Joni Mitchell
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. – Joan Didion
I’ve always dreamt of somewhere down the line getting one match out of Hogan, just because that was always a dream. – Jeff Hardy
Religious people know deep down that that is the most vulnerable area of their lives, and when others question it, they are liable to hit out and feel insulted. You know it is absolutely without proof, yet people still commit themselves totally to this belief. They cannot refute it because it is so central to their lives. – John Hurt
Both Springsteen and Michael Jackson, who had these huge productions, could always scale them back down to just a song and a melody. All of that influences me. I also try to be a fictional writer, and sometimes I get close, but the things that resonate the most with me – and with everyone else – is what’s real. – James Bay
You can’t be, like, smashing guitars against Marshall stacks all the time. As a matter of fact, after a while, it just looks like posing – it never really gets down to any message or any real expression. – Jeff Buckley