Top 95 Poster Quotes

I’ve been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can’t be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It’s got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who’s the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.

First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran for city council.

I remember that poster of Led Zeppelin with the plane. I had it on my wall when I was a kid. I thought that was the coolest. It amazes me that it came true.

Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.

Lord knows I’m not the poster child for eating right and exercising, so I don’t want to give that impression at all! This is the same person who people have watched have a weight problem in her teens, so come on!

I’m not a poster boy for Conservation International. I’m a working member of the board.

Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for ‘Gold Diggers,’ I said: ‘Hey, wait a minute! Those aren’t my teeth!’

Modelling is a bit baffling when you’re 18. I just thought, ‘Brilliant – I get paid lots of money to walk down a runway.’ I didn’t think I was signing up to be a poster girl for anything.

I grew up poor. To me, interior decorating is my big-screen TV, my couch and my Simpsons poster.

People in the legal field are always surprised when they learn I’m a Raiderette. I don’t broadcast it; I don’t have my team poster in the office.

I had a poster of Kevin Garnett hanging in my room. He was one of my inspirations when I was young. I was at my friend’s house – he had a lot of money, so sometimes I’d go to his place to watch some NBA action. I remember the first time I saw Kevin Garnett, I just felt something in my body: ‘This feels like me.’

First time I met Hulk Hogan, I had a life-sized poster of him in my room and I idolized him as a kid.

I was a huge Spice Girls fan when I was a kid. When I was younger I had a Spice Girls poster on my wall and I watched the movie.

The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that’s the first impression it’s going to make. And very often it’s portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.

I should be a poster child for CTE.

I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

I’m now the poster child for not believing everything I’m told.

I love MySpace; it’s done an amazing job for me and it’s been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I’m not a poster girl for them.

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

I’ve sort of become the poster boy for quitting your job and following your dreams.

In ‘Poster Boys,’ every character is well defined.

If you put little person wrestler on a poster, people are going to say oh is that kids? Is that weird, odd people? You put midget wrestling they know what it is.

I remember that during ‘Ek Hasina Thi,’ a fan of the show had a king-size poster of me in her bedroom, which she would attack after every episode!

Give consideration to the fact that alien astronomers could have scrutinized Earth for more than 4 billion years without detecting any radio signals, despite the fact that our world is the poster child for habitability.

Ex-Im Bank doles out billions of dollars of loans and insurance subsidies every year and has become the poster child for corporate cronyism in Washington. Think of the bank as food stamps for America’s Fortune 500 companies.

I’m not looking to be a gay poster child. If you’re gay, and I inspire you, I don’t want to put that down. But I’m not looking to be your gay savior.

I got the idea for the song ‘Bad Company’ when I saw a poster for the Jeff Bridges movie, and it reminded of an old Victorian picture that I’d once seen, and it said, ‘Beware of bad company.’ So I sat down at the piano and started to write the song.

Films that are easy to sell happen to be the worst films. Look at the poster for ‘Wrath of the Titans’ and ‘John Carter’: they’re exactly the same. You could switch titles.

I’ve never been a person that has had fear of, like, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be the poster child for all black lesbian women.’ I don’t know. I want to be someone in the public eye that they can be proud of.

How could I get up there and say, ‘People, we’ve got to do better,’ when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I’ve always believed leaders don’t ask others to do what they’re unwilling to do.

When I ask people what they think of when they hear the term ‘cerebral palsy,’ I usually get one of two responses. They either think of a smiling, crumpled child in a wheelchair on a poster or commercials on late night TV with lawyers enticing parents of CP kids to sue the pants off their obstetrician.

Knowing that the ‘Sex and the City’ chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of us fuss and hiss about a bit of retouching on their forthcoming film poster?

I have a ‘Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State’ poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul’s in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.

I don’t want to be a poster child for cancer.

One year they asked me to be poster boy – for birth control.

I am really bad at being a mom. I think it’s hard for me to be a mom. I do my best. I am not the poster child for being a mother, I will say that. I wish I was.

You know, it was important for me to do something like that, because nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping.

Being ‘ethnically ambiguous’, as I was pegged in the industry, meant I could audition for virtually any role. Morphing from Latina when I was dressed in red, to African American when in mustard yellow, my closet filled with fashionable frocks to make me look as racially varied as an Eighties Benetton poster.

Sometimes people come up to me and say, ‘You were my teen crush.’ I’m honored and I’m touched, but I also ask, ‘What happened? Why’d you take the poster down?’ I get a little heartbroken in that situation.

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I’m not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.

I didn’t just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else’s method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson’s being underfunded.

If I had a modelling job and then it became a poster, it meant that my kids and I could have turkey for Christmas dinner. Otherwise, we had chicken.

For so many years, people have used the expression ‘poster boy of British MMA,’ but I’ve never seen myself as that; I certainly never described myself as that.

When you loot or behave violently, you give grounds to those that try to justify illegal police abuse. You become the poster child for them to say, ‘See, we have no choice but to shoot and kill, or use a chokehold, because just look at the way they behave.’

I was pretty much the government’s poster boy for what I had done.

To our American neighbors, we were model immigrants, a poster family. They told us so. My father had a law degree, my mother was on her way to becoming a doctor, and my siblings and I got good grades and always said ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’

I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 years ago. An actor has a degree of responsibility to change for the audience, to give them something new each time, to surprise and not bore them.

I had a poster of Iniesta. He seemed like a different player to me: elegant, special… a genius. I watched all the Barcelona games to see how they played and the geniuses, Iniesta and Messi. After, I tried to imitate them, but it was difficult.

Honestly, I was not good in my debut film ‘Poster Boys.’ With my second film, ‘Laila Majnu,’ I was struggling with everything and I just felt lucky to even get the part.

When I was younger, I always wanted to be a musician, a performer and an entertainer – but I never thought about becoming a poster or anything like that. It’s pretty cool.

The Toothbrush mustache is the most powerful configuration of facial hair the world has ever known. It overpowers whoever touches it. By merely doodling a Toothbrush mustache on a poster, you make a political statement.

It’s a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We’re all such complex creatures. But if I’m going to be a poster child for anything, anger’s a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

Taxpayers will not stand for – nor should they – the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.

When I’m writing a novel, one of the things I do is get big poster boards. They’re actually canvases that artists use. And I keep all the characters’ names on them. If you write a big novel, there’s a lot of characters.