It’s very difficult to put your finger on why a certain actor or actress will capture your attention, and you’ll think they’re right for a role. There’s an essence to a person. – James Gray
But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy. – Jodie Foster
I’m not sure a lot of companies know their story, or can explain why they exist and who they are, without just spewing just corporate speech. – Jason Fried
When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It’s just how to do it. – Isabelle Huppert
Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can’t they make a phone out of Tupperware? – J. B. Smoove
Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That’s why there’s the old saw: location, location, location. – Jeff Bezos
When I was a young guy, when I first started with G.E., Jack Welch sent us all to Japan because in those days Japan was gonna crush us. And we learned a lot about Japan when we were there. But over the subsequent 30 years, the Japanese companies all fell behind. And the reason why they fell behind is because they didn’t globalize. – Jeffrey R. Immelt
Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years? – Jared Diamond
There is no other country that has the Cuban Adjustment Act; that’s why it’s called the Cuban Adjustment Act and not the Nicaraguan Adjustment Act. – Jeb Bush
There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest collections in France, any more than Kew should necessarily be a favourite garden because it has the largest assemblage of plants, or Tesco your chosen shop because it has the widest variety of canned beans. – Jim Crace
Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you’re a smart businessman, but if you take advantage of something so you don’t go hungry, you’re a moocher? – Jon Stewart
I am shocked that Republicans can’t explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy. – Jack Kemp
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. – Joseph Stalin
If some of us can get an Oscar for extolling that it’s hard out there for a pimp, why can’t others of us admonish: ‘Then quit acting like a pimp’? – John Ridley
I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That’s why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18. – Jessica Lange
Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them. – Joseph Stiglitz
My boyfriend keeps telling me I’ve got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. ‘Why a house?’ ‘Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.’ – Julia Roberts
There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can’t tell you why. – Jim Harrison
Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days? – Joyce Meyer
I don’t understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of ‘women are inferior.’ – Joss Whedon
Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase? – Jami Attenberg
I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece. – John Updike