Words matter. These are the best The Only Thing Quotes from famous people such as Tennessee Williams, Phil Rudd, Shaun Ryder, Kent Haruf, Harold Coffin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
I don’t need to practise. The only thing I need to do is build up my match fitness.
Kids now, they’re not willing to pay for music and movies. The only thing they seem to be willing to pay for is concert tickets.
Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.
The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that’s retroactive.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Science has killed religion. There’s no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Bitty was a nickname. When I became an actress I kept it. It’s the only thing that went with Schram!
The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people’s faces, because that’s the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.
The only thing I’d ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can’t write a story where someone is a simple victim because it’s boring.
Maybe I’ll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I’m always open to learning everybody’s style – the director, the actor I’m working with.
The only thing I care about is my family.
Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don’t feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.
Ultimately, people do want to buy merch and tickets to support their favorite bands, but they don’t want to feel like it’s the only thing going on.
The only thing I think that is wrong with modern gaming now is the free-to-play stuff on mobile phones. I think it’s very cynical and cold and weird.
The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games.
The only thing that I demand of the audience is that they listen to what I’m saying. Other than that, they owe me nothing. They don’t owe me a thing.
The only thing I think I can be accused of about paparazzi is being really naive. I didn’t think about it coming along with the job and I never, during my three years at drama school, fantasized about one bit of it.
I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that’s when I’d actually sit down and listen. I wouldn’t pay attention in school, or I’d sing in class and get in trouble – I’d always get in trouble. Theater is the only thing I always came back to.
Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.
Don’t sell yourself short because without that you can’t go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can’t do anything else with that.
Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.
The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
You know what, I’ve always been a smarty-pants, and the only thing that goes wrong now is that people know that I play a doctor on TV and so they quickly call me out on the fact that I really think I am a doctor.
‘Via Dolorosa’ is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I’ll never act again.
The only thing better than singing is more singing.
‘Blanche’ opened a new door for me without really making me more famous. ‘Blanche’ was a risk, but that is the only thing that excites me in this profession. The knowledge that I am an actress who takes risks lifts my soul.
The only thing you can do to make catfish edible is fry them.
Pretty isn’t the only thing that matters – being smart and kind matters more, of course – but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.
The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I’m not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.
Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It’s just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.
I just love when the Internet is wrong. It’s the only thing that will save journalism.
I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you’ve worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great.
The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla’s lawyers.
The only thing that said ‘Lando Calrissian’ was ethnic was his looks.
When my friends talk about childhood, I’ve never heard of any cartoons or TV they remember. The only thing we share is Michael Jackson. That’s how far his music travelled – to a remote village on the other side of the world.
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
I’m in love with everything about show business. The only thing that ever came easy to me in life has been acting.
I believe that if you work hard and you never get to enjoy it then what’s the point. You can’t take any of this with you, the money or nothing. The only thing you can take is experiences, memories and good times, so I like to get amongst it as much as I can.
Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.
One of the benefits for me of starting late in this business is I realised that if acting was the only thing I could do, I would struggle, so I always wrote as well.
You’ll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films… Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that’s the only thing.
We got in the ring and wrestled almost every night and didn’t have many days off… The only thing I knew for certain when I got in the ring was exactly how I went in. We told a story and the match was the story.
The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we’ve been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: ‘Make it great.’
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
These days kids get paid enough that they probably don’t need to work too much. The problem is when the person is old enough that they need to work to make a living, and the only thing that they know how to do is what they are already washed up in.
I’ve become kind of a haven for people who like pop music, but that’s not the only thing they like. They also like music in general and want to be able to expand their own horizons. They haven’t completely given up on music and are willing to have somebody mediate new things that are happening in music to them.
I’ve tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.
There’s nothing that’s in an actor’s control. I’ve learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There’s no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
The only thing you’re taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we’re all spiritual creatures.
The only thing I know is that no one ever sat in a therapist’s or a psychiatrist’s room saying, ‘My parents just loved me too much.’ The only thing you can do is love them and be around. Kids don’t really care what your car is like or how big their house is. All they really care about is that you are around.
As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I’m still performing at 50, it’s because I’ll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them.
My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.
The only thing an adult can give a child is time.
Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.
Music – it’s the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.
I left school at sixteen – I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn’t have Latin, and so couldn’t go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that.
