Trouble Quotes - Page 24

• I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.

  Judi Dench

  Eye, Scripts, I Can

  "Dame Judi: My battle to save my eyesight" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. February 18, 2012.

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• My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.

  Judy Davis

  Girl, Silly, Book

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• I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.

  Ted Dekker

  Kids, Parent, Age

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• I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Country, Six, Stills

  "The Hollywood hitman". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.

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• I'm not much of a club goer because every time I do go I get in trouble.

  Lita Ford

  Clubs

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• I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.

  Donald Glover

  Dad, Dark, Favourite

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• The trouble when you die is that everyone says you were nice. I would like to be thought of as genuinely nice. I would like there to be people who can honestly say: "Len! Oh yeah, there was more good than bad in him.

  Len Goodman

  Nice, People, Yeah

  "This much I know: Len Goodman". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.

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• I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

  Christopher Guest

  Children, Growing Up, London

  "Nowt so queer as folk" by Richard Grant, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2004.

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• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Sex, Years, People

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• If a nation's security is only as strong as its weakest link, then America may be in serious trouble. Hawaii may be our weakest link and could have a serious impact on our nation's immigration policy.

  Joe Arpaio

  Strong, Impact, America

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• As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.

  Karen Allen

  Independent, People, Interesting

  "Interview: Karen Allen and the Kingdom of Her Crystal Life". Interview with PatrickMcD, hollywoodchicago.com. September 29, 2009.

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• Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.

  Shinzo Abe

  Beautiful, Japan, Sea

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• We shouldn't just consider the desire of government to do what it wants to do. We should always consider the resistance of people. The culture of Iranian people doesn't let the government drag people into deep trouble or backlash. Maybe government wants it, but the culture doesn't let it go on.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Government, People, Let It Go

  Interview with Reese Erlich, www.motherjones.com. April 7, 2007.

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• We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble.

  Tom Freston

  Ideas, World, Levels

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• The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, People, Facts

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• I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

  Van Morrison

  Relationship, Strife, Wells

  Song: Underlying Depression, Album: Days Like This

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• Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too. I'm in so much trouble I don't know what to do.

  Aretha Franklin

  Green, Hornets, Knows

  Song: Save Me

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• Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine.

  Bob Dylan

  Riding, Lines, Fixing

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• I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air.

  Randy Newman

  Air, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Rollin', Album: Good Old Boys

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• I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

  Emmylou Harris

  Alcohol, Drug, Feelings

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• I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.

  Elvis Costello

  Evil, Hell

  Song: Tokyo Storm Warning, Album: Blood And Chocolate, 1986

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• I never have no trouble with my rubber girl.

  Frank Zappa

  Girl, Rubber

  Song: Little Rubber Girl

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• He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Business, Ambition, Crowns

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• If you intend to be of assistance, your eye is not upon the trouble but upon the assistance, and that is quite different. When you are looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion, but when you are looking at a problem, you are feeling negative emotion.

  Esther Hicks

  Motivational, Encouragement, Eye

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham”, p.194, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the best I can do. All the trouble in the world is human trouble. Well, that's not true. But when cancer cells run amok and burst out of the prostate and take over the liver and lymph glands and end up killing everything in the body including themselves, they certainly are acting like some humans we know.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Life, Running, Nice

  "All the Trouble in the World. The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague and Poverty". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1994.

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