Top 70 Um Quotes

The truth is – I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven’t had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

It’s kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it’s educated me a little bit more.

I guess whatever the director’s energy is is kind of contagious on set, because, um, you know, it’s a hierarchy, and we’re all kind of looking to the director for guidance.

There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.

I get that question almost more than any other. Once people feel a little comfortable, they’re always like, ‘So, what, uh, uh, what, um, what’s your ethnicity?’

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.

I’m no financial expert. I scarcely know what a coin is. Ask me to explain what a credit default swap is, and I’ll emit an unbroken 10-minute ‘um’ through the clueless face of a broken puppet. You might as well ask a pantomime horse.

After I finished ‘The Darkest Minds’ series, I knew I wanted to take a risk and work on something completely different – lighter in tone, with a little bit more romance, and a completely different set of characters – that would also, um, finally justify my liberal arts degree.

So we were doing this scene, and the kids get 20 minutes a day, um, so, all I had to do was pick him up out of the incubator and take him out, and that was the whole shot.

I have no idea what was the first record I ever bought, but I think I asked my mom to buy me… um… a collection of Beethoven when I was a little girl because I became very addicted to his music. It might have been piano sonatas.

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion – very powerful emotions. That’s what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and – people identify with that.

With ‘Mutant Ninja Turtles,’ I wanted to play a character who lives more in the real world, although yes, I grant you, he immediately encounters, um, turtles, of the teenage mutant ninja variety.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad Valentine’s Day, I mean… c’mon, y’all know I never get a bad Valentine. Nah. Um, no, I’ve never really had – I don’t have a bad Valentine’s Day. I never really think… it doesn’t come up to my mind.

I do, kind of, spend a lot. And just on stupid things. Because I don’t really know what to do. What are you supposed to do? Um. It just seems like way too much. We don’t deserve it, at all, for what we do.

Um, and I’m also very proud of my work on George of the Jungle 2.

The thing is, I have never been that confident, and, um, I have a lot of self-doubt, and I had never – I don’t think I ever would have consciously chosen to be a television presenter.

Um, I’m just naturally super-funny. No, not really. I’ve never been in The Groundlings or anything.

Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my – they help me form into the artist that I am, so – for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.

I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of – kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful – every adjective I can think of, very cold.

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it’s just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it’s stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

I make fun of guys when I like them. I act like I’m 10 years old. I do it as a test to see if they can laugh at themselves. If they get sensitive, then it’s like, ‘Um, this isn’t going to work.’

Because I’m on a tour bus, it’s so hard to wash your face – we have to use, um, water bottles. But you know what? It’s not about looking cute – it’s about staying hydrated.

I’m not for the flashes; I’m not for glitz and glamour, you know. I just want to win, I want to be good at what I do, um, and look back upon these days of playing in the NBA.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

I don’t have the answers. But I am asking the questions, and that’s the fun part. I’m like the kid in class with his hand up, going, ‘Um…’ I think that’s a powerful place to create from.

When we started out in ’64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.

Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.

I think it’s a star-making turn for Audrey Tautou. I can’t imagine anyone else playing that role. Um, to me, is she Amelie, for better or for worse.

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable.

I’ve seldom minded other people’s opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I’ve seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.

More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful ’70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.

You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don’t like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War.

My greatest fear is speaking in public. You meet, like, um, people who just concentrate on me. I’d rather not have everyone focus on me.

Facebook it turns out, is like MySpace but it’s not scary. There aren’t a lot of angry looking people with nose rings and um, issues.

Yeah, I don’t like, um, I’m not interested in rock ‘n’ roll piano. I find it a little grating.

An IVF patient is – is living and breathing hope. It’s… it’s, um… it’s – You wouldn’t do it if you didn’t have a sense of hope. Why would you put yourself through it?

Even if the Right says that Um Al-Fahm should be outside Israel, this is impossible.

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.

No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, ‘Oh! What a Lovely War,’ and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn’t sell me as Joyce Penelope Willomena Frankenburger.

I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but ‘Downton’ isn’t. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it’s like a soap written by a poet.

When I met Christophe Waltz, I was so shy! I was like, ‘Oh, hi! Um, I’m Stephanie!’ He’s one of my favorite actors.

I’m a very, very handsome man, and have had to come to terms with it… um, do I like the way I look? In the right light, and with a following wind.

There are good musicals that came from movies, like ‘Shrek’ and ‘Legally Blonde!’ But, um… they should never mess with ‘The Hunger Games.’

School was just kind of something where it was like, ‘Um, I guess I should get my bachelor’s.’ My mind is always geared towards the practical.

In a 24/7 news cycle, with all the shrieking, howling voices and rapid-response and instant spinning and Soviet-style disinformation-mongering, a good idea has a shelf life of about, um, six seconds.

Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it’s because I’m more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it’s not an issue for me. I don’t know.

Um, accidents happen. Especially if there’s a co-star that you’re not that fond of – you might ‘accidentally’ deck him. But no, I’m a professional. I’m just saying that can happen.

I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that’s it. I’m in.

Um… Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.

I certainly considered DJing. I bought four vinyls, and I bought some turntables, and I was like, ‘Um. Yeah. I’m not gonna do this. This is not my thing.’

I think she definitely has. I think, um, her and Mulder’s relationship has become more equal. And, I think she has become stronger and more independent over the seasons.

There are places you go, and they say, ‘Take off your dark glasses so we can see your beautiful blue eyes.’ And you just want to… you just want to… I dunno, um… thump them.