Asking Quotes
The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.
I stopped asking a long time ago, "why would you want me to play that?" I'm an actor. That's what I do.
Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account.
It takes asking many questions from many perspectives to truly understand something.
The most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question?' The second most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question in the most important way?'
If you're asking me have I purchased a CD, a DVD or downloaded a current artist? The answer is no.
In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.
The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.
I asked all through third, fourth and fifth grade, when they were asking kids to be in the band, to be in the school band. But they wouldn't let me do it.
It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night.
The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.
We are so afraid of the idea of having to die... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn.
It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to commit, is asking tew mutch ov enny man, now days.
Movies and life become a little more symmetrical when you start asking for and looking for connections.
What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.
God is not asking us to not have anything or even to give away every single thing that we have. He is asking us to share with people who have less than us, which we do all the time.
Some people make movies and think, "Well, I'll just keep asking for more money if this isn't enough." And then there are other people, like Clint Eastwood, who always come in under budget.
If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.
If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.
She glared at him. "I'm not asking you to apologize." "Well, that's a relief.I doubt I could find the words.
Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.
Directing is much more psychological-it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between two and 500 people asking you a billion questions.
Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.
Pretty girl and all. Asking. Gotta love that. Stuff of heroes. Don't get the role too often.
I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.
For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.
I don't mind anyone asking me any questions, I've got nothing to hide. I like it to be as real as it is, that's what I call an interview.
In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is too idealistic to paint yourself.
I think I've been asked just about every question under the sun. I'm just really honored that people are even interested in asking me questions.
My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.
Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?
I couldnt imagine something asking as much of me as House Of Cards. Its a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.
Tell me where you want it,” I said. Minias drew back, his purple robes shifting about his ankles. “You’re asking me?” “Well, unless you want a big R on your forehead.
A demon was asking me what I wanted. My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. “What do you want?” he said softly.
Women asking for raises should not only know their value, but they should ask with the confidence that they're helping the company to be successful.
Give money to universities — that would be asking for trouble. All those places do is turn out more Communists.
As someone who has been asked to ask David Lynch what his movies mean for 25 years, I'm very careful about asking artists what their art means.
It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on a subject we see in philosophy or the work of Robert Wilson, for instance?
You ask yourself "What is love? Am I in love?", when what you should be asking is, "What is not love?", ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?
She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said. No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.
There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is "why not?" I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did.
Asking others for input puts you in the driver's seat, and may feel less awkward than having to watch yourself on video.
Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding.
There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much.
I remember asking my mom, "Do you think that I will ever have enough money to live outside of your house?" And she would be like, "You just never know."
What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.
I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.
You're asking for trouble, Hannagan," he growls. "And you would be....?" Janie asks. She giggles. "Trouble.