I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'
When I chose to do 'Carrie,' I never had done anything on camera before. I was always onstage, so everything surprised me. Just going on set and walking into a makeup trailer and seeing Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore - 'Wow, I am part of this ensemble.'
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning.
That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
As everyone knows, I have never been a fan of George Bush's presidency.
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
As a five-year-old kid, I used to sit in front of the TV - I never missed 'Dukes of Hazzard,' not once. It was me and my dad's show.
I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.
Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by a wolf that wasn't provoked by the human.
I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.
I never was able to be a Lakers fan - I'm more of a Spurs fan.
Art will never be able to exist without nature.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
Personally, I feel that if you shoot off 200,000 rounds, and your lead character pulls out a pistol and never gets hit, there's a sense of jeopardy that's lost. It becomes a little less exciting when things don't make sense.
I have cellulite - and had it even when I was at my absolute thinnest. I'm never not going to have cellulite. People need to just accept that it's there and maybe dress accordingly or use body makeup to cope with it.
I've always had a day job and never been just acting.
I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
In the beginning, when I signed with Miami, they said they were never gonna trade me, and then, after first year, boom, they traded me to Toronto.
I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.
Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.
There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.
I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.
Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.
When you're a kid, regardless of the age you grew up, everything is high opera. With hormones raging, you have to fight external and internal battles that you've never had to deal with before. Unlike Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, who have seen it all and been through it all, everything heightens the drama.
I've never felt any particular desire to be married.
Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
Clever tyrants are never punished.
