Like You Quotes - Page 12

• I once read a quote that I think was Michelle Pfeiffer in an article, who said that she thought people went into acting because maybe if you could convince millions of people to like you, you will finally like yourself, approve of yourself. I don't know if that may have been a part of it.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, People, Acting

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• There's definitely a psychology to making you feel important and like you're part of the game. It's a very special quality, especially with a first-time director.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Games, Psychology, Special

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• And, there are negatives and positives to it. Like, you know, just like a marriage, where you're like, "Well, this... you know, is the sex still as exciting as it was two years ago?"

  Mark Duplass

  Sex, Years, Two

  "Jay and Mark Duplass Don’t Want ‘Togetherness’ Season 2 to Disappoint You". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. February 19, 2016.

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• We always joke now like, you know, the more experienced we get making stuff, we're like, "Never leave set without a shot of each of our lead characters driving in the car looking happy, looking moderately blank and looking sad." Because we know we're going to need these things.

  Mark Duplass

  Character, Car, Stuff

  "Jay and Mark Duplass Don’t Want ‘Togetherness’ Season 2 to Disappoint You". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. February 19, 2016.

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• I like it when shows end intentionally, and Review, especially, has such a long form narrative that it feels like you need to give it a thoughtfully constructed finale.

  Andy Daly

  Long, Giving, Needs

  "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts.

  Ben Fountain

  Eight, Years, Effort

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I feel like you only need one moment of inspiration to turn your life around.

  DeVon Franklin

  Inspiration, Needs, Moments

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I was just talking to Bono the other day, and he was like, "Are you doing shows?" I've just been off the road for a month-and-a-half, and he was like, "You lucky girl."

  Alicia Keys

  Girl, Talking, Lucky

  "6 Questions With Alicia Keys". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. October 20, 2005.

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• I don't like to talk about it in those terms; it's impossible to describe who or what God "is." Suppose you were a horse, and you were asked to describe what a human being was like. You couldn't do it.

  John Shelby Spong

  Horse, Impossible, Term

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• The first thing you have to do is understand what success looks like. And to understand what success looks like you have to understand the intent. If you understand that intent is to make sure the sea lines are secure, then suddenly bombing Kosovo makes sense, because you don't want Serbia to reemerge as a major power.

  George Friedman

  Sea, Lines, Want

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Success looks like you sitting here pretty confident that an armed brigade isn't going to come pouring in here and blow your head off. Which I don't think is your major concern. Therefore, the United States' foreign policy is successful.

  George Friedman

  Successful, Blow, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• But the biggest beauty advice I've given my daughter is every morning I say, "Genesis, what are the two best parts of you?" And she says "my brain and my heart." And I say, "You've gotta remember that, Genesis. You've gotta remember that you're not what you look like," you know? I think that's the best beauty advice I could give her.

  Viola Davis

  Daughter, Morning, Heart

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Hollywood's racist. Hollywood is sorority racist. It's like - we like you, Rhonda, but you're not a Kappa.

  Chris Rock

  Awards, Rocks, Hollywood

  "For Better Or Worse, Chris Rock Made The Oscars As Black As He Possibly Could". "All Things Considered" with Eric Deggans, www.npr.org. February 29, 2016.

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• I also think you have to be very careful. I mean, the heritage of our company is very strong, and building some of these businesses into leading players is extremely tough. You and I can both build a trading business, and it looks like you're doing OK, and it looks like I'm doing OK. But, really, I am, and you aren't. It comes down to the quality of clients, quality of systems, quality of risk controls.

  Jamie Dimon

  Strong, Mean, Player

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• I think you always feel like you're about a hair's breadth away from being a bad actor anyway... It's not too hard to let the rope go slack, so to speak.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Thinking, Hair, Rope

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• It's a social media time, where you have YouTube and everything it's kind of like you see my career grow up on camera. But a lot of the things that you would see from artists would be behind the scenes that nobody would know about before, now it's all on display.

  Young De

  Growing Up, Artist, Media

  Interview with Bill Rock, 411mania.com. January 25, 2015.

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• Someone told me once that Lucinda Williams takes six years between albums, and that's what stuck to me; it's like, you really are a factory. You don't do things to make them, on your own time.

  Beth Ditto

  Years, Albums, Six

  "Beth Ditto of Gossip". Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. April 16, 2008.

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• I don't think I was bullied. If I was bullied, I fought back or turned the other cheek. I have been put in a box, I guess: "Oh you're blonde, you can't play brunette." And I'm always like: "You know what? I'm going to prove you wrong, I'm going to make my hair brown."

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Thinking, Play, Hair

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• You don't just - you often have to defend the freedoms of people you don't like, you know, whose work you don't like, because freedom of speech is not just for serious people. It's also for trashy people. So, and, unfortunately, this is at the trashy end of the scale.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Freedom Of Speech, Serious

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• I like to go play shows just to see people, so I'm not in the game of like, "You're at my show, you're gonna listen to it like this, blah blah blah."

  Travis Morrison

  Games, Play, People

  "The Dismemberment Plan". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2013.

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• When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Teenager, People, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You get to a certain age and it really occurs to you: "My mother and my father will not always be here. My spouse or my girlfriend or boyfriend are here right now, but someday they won't be." You realize that you need to like yourself.

  Angel Olsen

  Mother, Girlfriend, Father

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People always - when you rise, whenever you're getting to a point where you're a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren't going to like you.

  Adam Levine

  People, Band, Bigs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

  Doseone

  Art, Feels

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.

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• The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

  Michael Gira

  Hammers, Alive, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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