My Time Quotes - Page 6

• If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing.

  Maya Rudolph

  Kids, Yesterday, Ifs

  "Maya Rudolph's DOs and...More DOs!". Interview with Jessica Duncan, www.glamour.com. March 7, 2012.

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• One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Kissing, Men, Skills

  "Pop Tarts: 'The Rock' Says Kissing Steve Carell Was 'Fantastic'" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2008.

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• I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.

  John C. Reilly

  Drama, Character, Swings

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• I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

  Christina Ricci

  Awkward, Adults, Shy

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• Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

  Mike Rogers

  Thinking, Decision, Important

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• It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  People, Mentor, Female

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• Argh... I could be better with my time. I like to be punctual, but I could be better.

  Kelly Rowland

  Punctual

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• I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career.

  Nolan Ryan

  Believe, Blessed, Careers

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• I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get to leave town, and when I do, I tend to go for three days max. Seeing between 30 and 40 shows a week in 100 or so galleries and museums takes up nearly all my time.

  Jerry Saltz

  New York, Writing, Museums

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• I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

  David Schwimmer

  Half, Analyzing, Living My Life

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• I've done a lot of fighting in my time, and I'm down to do some more. I don't want to, but you know, there's just certain things that you can't sit down and take.

  Jill Scott

  Fighting, Done, Want

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• I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.

  Maria Sharapova

  World, Lockers, Rooms

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• I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

  Wallace Shawn

  Thinking, Buying, Laundry

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

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• For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

  Wallace Shawn

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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

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• I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

  Robert Smith

  Sky, Listening, Houston

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• When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.

  Bruce Springsteen

  People, Different, Bob

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• During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.

  Patrick Stewart

  Bridges, Two, Different

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• I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

  Taylor Swift

  Would Be, Roles, Stories

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• I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.

  Serj Tankian

  Musician, Want, Satisfaction

  "‘Screamers’ and Genocide: A Talk With Serj Tankian From System of a Down". Interview with Richard (RJ) Eskow, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2006.

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• I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.

  Twyla Tharp

  Reader, Known

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• I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

  Twyla Tharp

  Impact, Years, Fit

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• No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs, Giving, Want

  Interview, Sunday Telegraph (London), 26 Oct. 1969

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• Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

  Nat Turner

  Prayer, Mixing, Fasting

  Nat Turner “The Confessions of Nat Turner”, Lulu.com

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• I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

  Mike Tyson

  Vegas, Mike, Dues

  "'I ain't the same person I was'". www.espn.com. June 28, 2004.

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• I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

  M. Ward

  Watches, Want, Tvs

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