If It Was You Quotes

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.

Zola Budd: so small, so waif-like, you literally can't see her. But there she is

Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

It's become almost a cliche at this point that movies in the general sense are the place you go for superheroes and explosions and TV is where you go for actual storytelling.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.

Am well. Thinking of you always. Love

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

...try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ...results...I wish you the best in your difficult task.

Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.

It feels like you're being invited into a kind of community [working with the Coen brothers].

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.

One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.

Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.

Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

The funny thing about being Catholic, and I was raised Catholic, is that you identify with the Church, just as part of your character. Nevermind what you believe, it's just who you are.

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully.

If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.

It doesn't make sense to change who you are just to hang out with people you think are cool. You know, you just have to be yourself.

Why would you want someone who is conflicted and doesn't know if they love you or not?

Whether you like it or not, this man is the future of the WWE and I really wouldn't talk to him like that. Because he is The Miz and he is awesome.

I was at school when Britney Spears' 'Baby One More Time' came out. I changed my uniform to look like hers. I just looked slutty after that, so thank you, Britney.

Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

Just because you like me doesn’t make me what you want or need.

If you want me . . . you’ve got me.

We'll find out soon enough," Xavier growled. "You don't see too many V Star 250s around here" "How do you know the bike model?" I asked. "I'm a boy. We like engines

Thank you,” he was whispering, “thank you, thank you.…” And then he was kissing my face, every inch of it he could find, wiping away the tears and soot, chanting my name.

Where in the world did you get that dress?" "Present from Zu." "You look like you want to throw it in a fire." "I can't promise there won't be an unfortunate accident later on.

Try to imagine where we'd be without you, darlin', and then maybe you'll see just how lucky we got.

If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun

C'mon, you're gonna get upset sometimes. Breaking up is a shitty business. Someone always gets hurt. This time it happens to be you.

When you're working a three-hour gig, how do you know when to climax? You just watch the crowd and ride the wave. If they're not feeling a song, you move on.

Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.

There is a certain thing that you have to just stick to the plan, stick to what you want to do, and you try to work with studios and executives that they get it.

If you can make the day, you can do whatever you want.

When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.

In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.

Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.

I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

It's nice to think people might be talking about it after they've seen it. With some comedies it's a bit 'wham bam thank you ma'am', and then you just go for a pizza.

I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.

You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.

I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it's a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.

Even if your family isn't quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.

Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That's why it's so important to know who you are and stand up for something.