Can Do Quotes - Page 23

• If you're 5' 6", just stay home. Don't pretend you're 5' 8" or 5' 9". If you want to be a beauty model, I guess that's fine, you can do glamour, but you're not going to do runway. If you're over 29 - 26, even - I would suggest you work regionally and not try to work nationally.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Home, Trying, Want

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• I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.

  Brad Carson

  Country, Mean, Thinking

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• Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.

  Bryan Cranston

  Player, Actors, Periods

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 2, 2003.

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• I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Strong, Different Nationalities, People

  "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Talks THE THING and BULLET TO THE HEAD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 13, 2011.

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• You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A painter can paint by himself. A writer can write by himself. But an actor needs a group, and the hardest thing about expanding your ability and your craft is to have a group to do it with that is of a caliber where you can grow even more.

  Anne Archer

  Writing, Practice, Musician

  "Anne Archer and Michelle Danner Come Together For A New Play". Interview with Jamie Painter Young, www.backstage.com. October 12, 2011.

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• The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.

  Gary Ackerman

  Party, America, People

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• All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.

  Taio Cruz

  Fans, I Can

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance.

  Neve Campbell

  Strong, People, Mind

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• A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.

  P. Chidambaram

  Government, Political, Economic

  "Q&A With Finance Minister Chidambaram". Interview with Amol Sharma, Paul Beckett, blogs.wsj.com. October 8, 2012.

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• Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

  Warren Christopher

  War, President, World

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• All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.

  Howie Dorough

  Artist, Records, Strive

  "Backstreet Boys back with new album" by Gary Graff , Monica Herrera, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 28, 2009.

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• It's always a lot more fun as a quarterback if you can do things you don't normally get to do. So if I can catch a pass and make a play for the team, that's what I'm willing to do.

  Robert Griffin III

  Fun, Team, Play

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• You can’t focus on what everyone else is doing — it has to be about what’s really broken and what you can do to fix it.

  Drew Houston

  Broken, Focus

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• There is something in this world that every individual can do. God has created all of us with something unique to contribute.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Unique, World, Individual

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• To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

  Duke of Wellington

  Art, Engineering, Fool

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• The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Hard Work, Play Hard, Knowing

  "Toy boys r us" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. March 26, 2010.

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• Hollywood can be an ugly place and it can do ugly things to you.

  Kelli Garner

  Ugly Things, Hollywood, Ugly

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• I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

  Kitty Carlisle

  Age, Fifth, I Can

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• You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

  Stephen Daldry

  Theatre, Excess, Youth

  "Nothing is the hardest thing to do". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2003.

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• All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.

  Julie Nixon Eisenhower

  Jobs, Leader, Common

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• I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more than one profession - there's something suspicious about it! But nowadays it's more accepted that one can do a lot of things.

  Erland Josephson

  Real, Sweden, Accepted

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• As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.

  Austin Peck

  People, Stories, Actors

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• I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

  Benmont Tench

  Song, Moving, Trying

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• If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Thinking, Boxing

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• It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Theory

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