Top 485 Actually Quotes

Powerful women often get concerned with this idea that they’re going to be seen in this unforgiving light. Screw that. It’s so old-fashioned… It’s so uninspired and actually really cowardly.

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird – you actually have to think about them when you watch them.

I think I want to show fans what it is actually like to be an athlete. Tennis is a part of it, but there is also another job that people are not aware of, the media commitments we have, and I want them to understand this.

Actually, we’ve done 75 of these shows and every one of them has sold out. But then we buy all the tickets.

What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

It’s easy for us to congratulate ourselves on our own moral superiority when compared to the 1930s, but I’m not sure that we’re actually right about that. In most of the West, we simply haven’t been tested in the same way. And when we are tested, we often fail.

The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then three days later it would be reborn at the start of its cycle – December 25.

In France we have a saying, ‘Joie de vivre,’ which actually doesn’t exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over ‘The Wall Street Journal’ or the ‘Financial Times’ and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.

There are things that I am nostalgic about from the ‘good old days.’ I loved motion control cameras, actually. I love the way they sound. I used to do a lot of miniature work, and it’s still warranted, but it’s done less often, largely for budgetary, schedule, and flexibility reasons.

I speak five languages, which actually makes it easier when you join a new team. You can settle much quicker because you can help team-mates much faster and better. People need to be careful around me, though – I can understand everything.

You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven’t actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It’s not a quality that attracts me.

When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with. Of course, as the years go on, we come to find that we become our parents.

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

Reconciliation and forgiveness can actually help all of us move on in a healthier, happier way.

When I look back at the time that’s passed, it makes me think that I’m actually quite a strong person.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

‘In Case You Didn’t Know’ was written in Mexico, actually, on a songwriter’s retreat.

My husband is actually biracial. He is Caucasian and African American. And my brother’s fiance is Latina. So we have a colorful family.

As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.

I have no complaints or grudges against my dad. Actually my father’s remarriage was a blessing in disguise for us.

I don’t like playing to guitar players, actually. I’d rather just play to ordinary people.

We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?

My grandfather was actually a doo-wop singer in Panama. They were called The Dominos. He was the high soprano voice.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

I tell you, ‘Firefly’? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten ‘Serenity’. I think ‘Serenity’ is the most incredible thing I’ve ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can’t even tell you how much love I have for that project.

I’m no apologist for Russia or the Assad regime, but actually, this has been staring us in the face for a number of years now, and I think it’s time to turn a page and accept reality. Our strategy – if that is the right word – failed miserably, and Russia’s with Iran has been successful.

My parents were very funny – they didn’t know it. But they were. They were actually sharing an IQ.

We wish we had known that success takes time, that it’s gonna require an unimaginable amount of hard work, that you’re going to have to pretend you know what you’re doing even when don’t, and that as cheesy and cliche as it may sound, following your heart is actually… the key to everything.

People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren’t actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

I grew up in the South, and our way of dealing with each other was teasing, ribbing, making fun and scrapping in the street. Criticism doesn’t bother me so much. It actually made me, when I was younger, more aggressive. But you get into middle age, and you lose interest in that stuff. It’s not serious.

We live in an era of consumerism and it’s all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

The big moments for me are moments when I can actually contribute.

Whiteness is dynamic, relational, and operating at all times and on myriad levels. These processes and practices include basic rights, values, beliefs, perspectives and experiences purported to be commonly shared by all but which are actually only consistently afforded to white people.

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives… not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

Found out I’m actually a pretty good teacher.

I’ll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it’s very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn’t like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.

Donald Trump is actually the voice of the silent majority, and I think he’s awoken that silent majority. People are very angry, and the people who are the most angry are actually the legal immigrants who see their jobs fleeing.

Actually, because I’m so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That’s how hard I play, and that’s how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.

Since the 1980s, Republicans have argued that policies embraced by a majority of Americans to promote equality of opportunity actually infringe liberty by hampering businessmen’s actions or taking their money through taxes.

I was kind of a misfit, actually. When you’re young, you want to be like everybody else, and I was like nobody else. I couldn’t sit still. I was impulsive. I still am. What is now called a ‘talent’ did not serve me well as a child. I didn’t have friends. I was really an outcast.

For a long time, I thought it was all down to dedication, hard work, and visualising doing well – that worked for a bit, but then it stopped. I’ve realised you have to be more practical and mature to make things actually happen.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder… We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

I don’t like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it’s something interesting, I’m fine with it, but, ‘Hey, Zack, how is your day?’ People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don’t have any real interest in that.

Very often, when leaders repeat things over and over, they are preparing you for when that meme actually emerges in reality.

My favourite poem is the one that starts ‘Thirty days hath September’ because it actually tells you something.

The normal metric of measuring progress has actually been the rate of growth, OK? It’s not a wrong metric, but it’s not a full metric.