For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets. – Thomas Steinbeck
I’m a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being. – Steve Coogan
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done. – Sam Ewing
I am someone that is very competitive. When I’m on the field, I compete. When I’m practicing, when I’m in meetings. I’m a competitor in everything. – Tim Tebow
It can be hard to say if someone has a deliberate intent to defraud or if they are just really, really bad at their business. But even if people are unpublishable, it doesn’t mean they should be ripped off. – Victoria Strauss
On my first TV job I didn’t have a clue. They’d tell me to hit my mark and I had no idea what they meant. You just pick it up. And ultimately, all it’s really about is pretending to be someone else. – Sheridan Smith
I wouldn’t mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy. – Stephen Bayley
I’ve always loved the rush you get from watching a really scary movie, but I never watch them alone. It’s fun to turn out the lights and scream and clutch someone’s hand and spill the popcorn all over the place and hide under each other. – Sunny Mabrey
Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse. – Simon McBurney
I came to filmmaking because it’s my passion. I decided I can’t have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be. – Shane Carruth
Legislation won’t necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair. – Saul Williams
When I write songs for myself it’s really personal and I just can’t have someone else singing it. – Sky Ferreira
You may be less likely to pick on someone if you don’t know what’s in their briefcase or purse. – Trey Gowdy
It’s very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don’t know. – Viggo Mortensen
It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing. – Terry Pratchett
If I’m going to portray one of my idols and someone I feel… so strongly about, it has to be done right, and it has to be done 120 percent. – Zendaya
There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die. – Stanley Kubrick
Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I’m a little worried someone’s going to do that. – Warren Spector
If you call someone up on a mistake – if the drummer’s put an extra beat in a bar or something – you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right. – Steve Winwood
I don’t want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties. – Zainab Salbi
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage – not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage. – Walter Lord
I like being in the back. I’ve done that for so many years, I’m really comfortable doing it. I don’t like the solo thing as much as I like playing drums behind someone. – Sheila E.