The Thing Quotes

For me it comes down to one thing: I'm trying to follow my own nature.

But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.

There is one thing that I feel I still have to do and that is gain revenge over Lennox Lewis. If Lewis came back I would find the motivation to return to boxing and beat him.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.

I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.

What is one man among so many men? What are so many men in such a world? Can one man think one thing and think it long? Can one man be one thing and be it long?

Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.

The number one thing is creating this world ["Trolls" ] - what the world is going to look like, feel like and what technology will we need to use to get there.

As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.

I really enjoy what I do, and I'm very grateful to be given an opportunity to do it. That's one thing that people can say about me.

I know that Congress will do the right thing.

The one thing I always loved about Michael Jackson: he had fun records, but he's also going to make some important statement with the music as well. He's not going to forsake the culture.

It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.

I want to make one thing clear: I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-affirmative action, I'm pro- environment, pro-health care, and pro-labor. And if that ain't a Democrat, then I must be at the wrong meeting.

It's one thing to reject the idea that it's a man's job to bring home all the bacon; it's another the 500th time your wife reaches for the check at dinner.

No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.

One thing that the Internet has created is the sense that information is at your fingertips, when it's really only a very, very limited, specific, and slanted kind of information.

That's one thing about Republican Presidents. They never went in much for plans. They only had one plan. It says "Boys, my head is turned. Just get it while you can.

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

What is living about? It is the decisions you must make between two rights, hard and costly decisions because always you can do one right thing, but sometimes not two.

If there’'s one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair, it’s this: I’m not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If 'is' means 'is and never has been' that's one thing - if it means 'there is none', that was a completely true statement.

I take full responsability...for what we did. It was the right thing to do.

You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.

To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.

When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.

For me, honestly, I'm an actor. There's one thing I know how to do - act. And that's all I know how to do. Through our work, [actors] can trigger awareness.

One thing you have to have when you act is energy.

Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.

The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.

One thing that is not to be underestimated is American cultures influence on the rest of the world.

One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

I don't think music is done by any means. I would love to do it again but it's finding the right thing.

For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.

I surf - that's the one thing I make time to do. I definitely surf a lot, but when you're working 15 hour days... all I want to do is get home to my baby.

Probably the hardest thing to do was the beginning of the movie ["300"], I think, when we were in Sparta and all that - just getting in the groove.

One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are.

One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in features, where you feel like, "If I want this to be this way, I better direct it."

I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room.

Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Time is the least thing we have of.