Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to lose money. Really! I want to lose money.
I think there is an extreme charm in the French, and actually it's their bolshiness that makes them such fun.
If somebody wants to think of me as a movie star, that's fine, that's great. It sort of makes me giggle.
Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible.
Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.
David Sedaris is so good that it makes me mad.
When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Its funny, because for females in general - not just in music, but the corporate ladder as well - anything we do has always been harder for us. When it comes to music, the industry wants you to conform, to look like this and to sound like this and do this or that. It makes it harder. It's harder for us to come out and be bosses and lead the pack.
I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer.
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.
People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.
If two actors can communicate well during a scene, it works and makes for good chemistry.
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
Your personality is what makes you sexy.
That's what's good about the digital revolution is it makes information asymmetry much harder to maintain.
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
The truth is that I'm not very disciplined with diets. In general, I do whatever makes me happy in life, and food makes me quite happy!
When you have kids and get older, it goes beyond flowers and chocolate. It's about waking up with a baby, letting her sleep in, and making a coffee for her when she wakes up. To me, being romantic is putting someone else first and thinking about what makes them happy.
So when you get a chance to look at things and chill and relax, it makes you want it more, and that's why I'm so happy to be back!
I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled and we learn something, that makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward.
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.
There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.
We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.
I'm quite an untidy person in a lot of ways. But order makes me happy. I have to have a clear desk and a tidy desktop, with as few visual distractions as possible. I don't mind sound distractions, but visual ones freak me out.
Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.
There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.
I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
What makes Harlem special is that at any given time, food seekers can not only find food deeply rooted in Southern, Latin and African traditions, but also can taste the newer Senegalese, Chinese, and Italian influences as well.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.
I love dressing up - it makes me feel good. I think most people get that feeling when they put on a well-tailored suit. It like, boosts your IQ, your confidence, everything. And I think that that needs to come back into the norm more.
I have to let the general manager do what makes the most sense, or I can't hold him accountable.
