Memorable Quotes

A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.

I'd like to keep doing film and TV, and I definitely can appreciate a good theme song. If it's memorable, that's a great thing.

William McKinley has surely been underrated - in no small part because he was succeeded by a memorable leader, Theodore Roosevelt.

Being memorable equals getting picked.

To become "memorable" do things that are somewhat unexpected. Dress, or talk, in ways that draw attention. And mostly, don't follow all the "rule for behavior" so closely.

[Louis] Brandeis improves the prose. He simplifies it and perfects the balance of the sentence so it becomes even more memorable and aphoristic.

To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience.

Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers.

The fun of working on the road means stealing from hotels. I've been doing it for so long, I have a set of towels from the Ark.

Looking 50 is great, if you're 60.

I was not an attractive child. When I didn't use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it as a tent.

Comedy - and I say this with humility - comedy needs me.

When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off.

I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage.

I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have gone on - I burn out every once in a while.

Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you

It's always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.

It's great to be paid, but it's better to do something original that's going to be memorable.

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make this debut novel a real winner.

Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

To be in someone's favorite film is just - that's what you want. You want to be in great films that are memorable.

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.

They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.

Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."

No, I'm afraid they might slip and hit a nerve and I'd end up with one side of my face hanging down or something. I'll just stick with this one for a while and take my chances. I'll be brave.

After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

I fairly often have thought how lucky I was. I knew everybody because I was married to Bogie, and that 25-year difference was the most fantastic thing for me to have in my life.

"My obit is going to be full of Bogart, I'm sure," she says, adding, "I'll never know if that's true. If that's the way it is, that's the way it is."

Generous in spirit, richly poetic, and packed with memorable characters.

I don't own an inch of land, but all I see is mine.

There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

In many ways, constancy is an illusion.

Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.

I just see a huge train wreck coming down. You and I have discussed this many times, and I don't see any results yet.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

Music is such an important element in creating the drama that a runway show needs in order to be memorable and to make the clothes come to life.

I joked at our National Convention that our party was nominating a candidate for president who was charismatic, larger than life, memorable, so they wanted to balance the ticket.

Don't worry about the masses. That's how you make a memorable moment.

I had one really memorable line. It was all the words you're not allowed to say on the airwaves, so it's one long list of swear words. I knew it anyway, because I was a huge George Carlin fan.

If you're lucky enough to have captured maybe two hundred memorable pictures, you still haven't captured that much experience, have you?

Work hard. Believe in yourself. It's not the publicity that sells the clothes, it's the woman.

Every season I am inspired by women.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.