I didn’t ever intend to or want to be an actor. I’m not one of those people of whom they say, ‘If you can’t live without it, that’s the only reason you should be an actor.’ It was kind of a sideline that became my whole life.
I read all the time that people think I’m arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, ‘That image doesn’t fit you.’
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Everything that has a spare piano is ‘like Satie’ and everything with strings is ‘filmic,’ Sometimes I get annoyed when they say my stuff sounds ‘like Satie’. No, it doesn’t. At least, I don’t think so.
I never expected to write a book about a slum in Ireland that was going to catapult me, as they say, into some kind of – onto the best seller list.
They say it’s better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
No matter how many shows I’ve done, as soon as they say it’s time to start, I get that nervous sensation and feel like I have to pee. So that’s where my mind is. That and making it to the end of the runway and back as fast as I can.
I’m eternally grateful for the fact that I’m doing what I like best. I thank my stars for it. I wonder why I wasted all that time being fat. I should have lost weight and started acting earlier. But as they say, things happen when they are meant to.
I don’t think of people as black or white. It’s a question of are they photogenic or not? I don’t think anyone says, ‘Let’s book her. She’s black.’ I think they say, ‘Let’s book her. She’s good.’ We’ve come that far.
The thing that really sticks – and when you talk to entrepreneurs, they say the same – is just thinking about the next day, the next week.
As soon as you define what an assault weapon is, you know, you can’t sell a weapon, and here’s how we describe it, gun manufacturers just make one adjustment or two, and they say, ‘See, this isn’t subject to the limitation.’
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.
It’s true what they say: ‘You don’t appreciate what you’ve got until it’s gone.’ I miss love. I miss being looked after.
They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given.
I hear from everybody, and they say ‘Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.’ We’re not hired to fight.
I have a lot of confidence through my accomplishments. I’m always trying to prove I’m not the worthless child they say I was.
Everything they say about Elvis today is true. He was just one great guy. He wasn’t jealous of anyone. I would say Elvis was really someone special when you add it all up.
I’m starting to understand why certain people in the entertainment business reach a point where they say, ‘I’m not going to do any more interviews.’ I definitely understand that.
Pope Francis has aimed a blow at what the whole hierarchical system is built on: a graded system with the higher clergy in the skyboxes, the devoted religious in festival seating, as they say of the crowds at rock concerts, and, on the bottom, the laity in standing room only.
The letters I really love are from young actresses who were worried they had to fit a certain look. They say I’ve opened it up. And I don’t just mean plus-size girls. You can push things now. With all the great performances in ‘Bridesmaids’, it changed how people see funny women.
As to whether Luke is the ‘Last Jedi,’ they say in ‘The Force Awakens’ he’s going to find the last Jedi temple and Luke is the last Jedi.
A lot of people stop short. They don’t actually die but they say, ‘Right I’m old, and I’m going to retire,’ and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.
I think people who are regarded as better actors must have better instincts because, at the end of the day, once they say ‘action,’ it’s you who has to do it right. You can do all the research and preparation or none at all, but it’s your instincts that tell you, ‘No, I’ll do it like this.’
Once you don’t smile on film, they say, ‘Let’s have that bloke who doesn’t smile.’
The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.
I’ve basically grown up in America. Even if Iran were to change, I wouldn’t see myself moving there. That feeling exists for my mother and people of her generation. They say, ‘Hopefully, one day.’
The press always ends up being much nicer than I expect. A lot of times they say something snarky about you, but then you meet them in person and they couldn’t be nicer.
CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It’s not what they say. It’s what they highlight.
Everybody I meet who uses ‘WhatsApp’, I ask them a question: ‘How did you hear about it?’ And they say, ‘My friends, my sister or my brother, somebody I know hounded me to install WhatsApp.’ We think there is more power to the network when it grows organically.
You know, in China, they say, come on over, we’ll build the plant for you. Of course, then they steal your patents, but the reality is that they are aggressively trying to take our jobs. Every other country is. They know that to have a middle class, you have to make things.
The critics never see my role as it is – as a man protecting his garden killing poisonous snakes. Instead, they say it’s just me again committing violence.
Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, ‘Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there’s a risk of getting killed?’
I don’t know if English is the only language where some expressions only and solely mean the opposite of what they say but we do have an awful lot of them.
They do not say Roosevelt saved our system. They say he has given us a new one. That is logical.
I don’t care what they say about me when I’m through with sports. I don’t want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.
I don’t know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don’t care how much they say it doesn’t bother them. That’s why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
People say the Internet’s made of cats. The reason isn’t because of cats; it’s because people like to have an emotion where they say ‘aww’ all at the same time.
It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.
The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, ‘America, what a great country.’ And a lot of that is true.
Generally, magicians don’t know what to say, so they say stupid and redundant crap like, ‘Here I am holding a red ball.’
They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it’s ready to eat, they just don’t fancy it any more.
Every time I criticize the anti-Zionists, they say, ‘You are trying to silence us.’ I don’t deny there are some people who are critical of Israel who are not anti-Semitic. But to criticize Israel, and then criticize Zionism, is not quite the same thing.
Hard things make me happy. You get upset, but you mature and improve: the quicker you reach your best level, the longer you stay there. They say players peak at 28; I wanted to be there at 22, 23.
Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.
I am quite a shy person. You say that to people, and they say, ‘You do interviews, speeches. How can you be shy?’ But, fundamentally, I am.
What’s hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there’s no reason I can’t play the part. They say, ‘Oh, we love Halle, we just don’t want to go black with this part.’
You can make movies and not particularly get along with the people you’re working with but, when they say ‘Action,’ your job is to make it look like you’re in love.
If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they’re fighting for the man next to them.
The American people I talk to don’t spend every moment thinking, ‘How can I tax my neighbor more than they’re being taxed?’ They say, ‘How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?’
Mainly it’s the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. A lot of them turn up and they know everything about me. They say: ‘You scored 346 goals’ or ‘You wore the No9 shirt for Liverpool.’
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it’s the rich people who keep saying it.
People tell me I look mournful. They say, ‘Cheer up, Dan, it’s not that bad!’ Sometimes I just look into space, which freaks people out. If I was ever required to do anything other than look haunted, I could. I’m a happy person.
