Tables Quotes - Page 34

• I hope to be 70 and sitting at the table with journalists, talking about my films.

  Elena Anaya

  Talking, Sitting, Film

  "Elena Anaya On Baring It All". Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.

  Matt Damon

  Half, Firsts, Hours

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• To sit here at the same table with my hero, George W. Bush...I feel like I'm dreaming. Somebody pinch me. You now what, I'm a pretty sound sleeper, that may not be enough...Somebody shoot me in the face.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Dream, Hero

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• If anybody needs anything else at their tables, just speak slowly and clearly into your table numbers. Someone from the NSA will be right over with a cocktail.

  Stephen Colbert

  Nsa, Numbers, Needs

  Stephen Colbert's monologue at the White House Correspondents Dinner, www.dailykos.com. April 30, 2006.

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• I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.

  Phyllis Diller

  Three, Phases, Dinner

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• I'm going to have cute boobs 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.

  Christina Applegate

  Cute, Home, Nursing

  "Good Morning America" Interview, August 19, 2008.

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• I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Drunk, Legs, Drink

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

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• I have a really interesting political point of view, and its not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you cant go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You cant. I wouldnt wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics every since.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Educational, Night, Views

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• As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. Its like watching a masterpiece.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Editing, Creative, Actors

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• When I was a struggling actress in New York in my 20s I worked in a burger joint called Diane's Uptown.  I actually loved waiting tables. I still keep who I was in my mind and never take anything for granted.

  Sandra Bullock

  New York, Struggle, Waiting

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• Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off.

  Dannii Minogue

  Fall, The End Of The Day, Diners

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• I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.

  Jason Biggs

  Character, Thinking, Quality

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• I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.

  Connie Nielsen

  Thinking, People, Remember

  "Connie Nielsen: Inspired by the city of her dreams". Interview with Mark Tutton, edition.cnn.com. August 6, 2008.

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• I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

  Tilda Swinton

  Kindness, People, Stupidity

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• Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

  James Levine

  Boyfriend, Father, Needs

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• I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Character, Reality, Trying

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• I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week.

  William Baldwin

  Jobs, New York, Couple

  "Billy Baldwin: William Tells". Interview with Dennis Hensley, movieline.com. August 1, 1995.

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• I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters.

  Jeremy Northam

  Character, Journey, Cards On The Table

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• Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

  Lily James

  Giving, Speech, Panic Attacks

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

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• At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start.

  Frank Cady

  Real, Character, Play

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• Felting Phil (taking all of his chips down to the felt on the table). I loved beating him and then hed go over to the couch and sulk, staring at the ceiling.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Ceilings, Chips, Couches

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• I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature

  Christopher Meloni

  Dark, Thinking, Issues

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• It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it

  Christopher Meloni

  Cutting, Catholic, Guilt

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• I had never been to Texas. Id been through Texas, but Im so glad to be back in a place thats not L.A. or New York. To talk about Dallas, to talk about there being sweet tea on the catering table, its rich and saturated in American-ness.

  Kelli Giddish

  Sweet, New York, Texas

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• I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.

  Aidan Quinn

  Nice, Levels, Sometimes

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

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