We Can Quotes

I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.

There's definitely a magical quality to writing that can't be explained. I can write something I love in two days, or I can work on a story every day for months and it never comes together.

I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.

See what a good actress I am? I'm just typing over and over, "You're a good person, Mary Lynn! Hang in there! You can do it!"

The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

I can be a little acerbic.

The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's a challenge.

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

There’s plenty that poetry cannot do. But the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do.

I can't imagine a pain more all-encompassing than losing a child.

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

If that is what this world is, what humans are... There is no future. Understanding and faith... If you take those away, all that's left is fear. I can't accept immoral methods or giving up.

I can imagine many things, but few clearly.

Hope likes justification, but can do without.

The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues.

I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.

If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.

I can neither return your love nor dismiss it.

I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day to become a better person to be compelling.

Someone can do anything they want to you on the outside, but whatever they do to me they cannot destroy what's on my inside. Mentally that cannot be taken away from me, no matter what someone does.

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

I can make music, but I can't play it. I read somewhere that Grieg couldn't play his A-minor piano concerts very well, but he could write. My role was to compose things, but not really play it.

Your parents tell you that you can do anything that you want, but then you turn 20, and they're like "I think you should be a doctor, instead of a musician."

I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.

If there's an idea I think is really good and I feel like I can write it, then I'll do it.

I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains.

I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.

Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can.

I realize that just my personality is, that I've gotta stay focused. I can't be too distracted.

I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I'm not sure there is anything left.

The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other and then I can just go home and they don't know.

I can't root for Jimmie Johnson to win the Nextel Cup b/c of all of his Super Bowl wins.

Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

Now I'm at the point where I can bring the cursor just about anywhere.

I played guitar when I was a kid, a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

I can’t think of anyone else I’d travel around the universe with than Amy Pond.

As an actor I can sort of smell a duff note, that isn't full of that much conviction. My worst thing with directors is when I know more than them about the character.

There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.

I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It's been hard for me for a long time, but now I can't listen to any new bands at all.

I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative?

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

I'm a big fan of cameras. I'm reasonably interested in good gadgets and I'm amazed by what things can do. The quality of the GoPros and what they can do is amazing.

I get stuff for free and I sell it for as much as I can get.

The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder and harder to watch and deal with that stuff.

Actors have to remind people that they can do different things, not just the same style of one role.

I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.