An actor’s job is about putting across the author’s intention; I don’t think of myself on the same level as a creator.

Genres aren’t closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

You have to emote much more to get what you’re trying to get across to come through a quarter inch of latex that’s superglued to your face.

To me, the failure of liberalism – the tradition I come from – was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right.

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.

It’s very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can’t hear the inflections in your voice.

Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’slike to be dying, and (b) not have died.

Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulder; something that cowls in the front, drapes low in the back, that’s sexy.

In the Soyuz, the little Russian capsule, you can actually hear the banging of the big shield, the big heat shield on the bottom, as it slowly erodes away from the heat and pieces of...

Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it’s been across the Canadian border. There are real issues there.

People are always asking, ‘Where does Michael Pennington end and Johnny Vegas begin,’ and you’re going, ‘It’s not like that: it’s blurred right across.’

The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as ‘one of their own.’

Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can’t see it, you can’t find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.

I’ve got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can’t stand it.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

I predict that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of undiscovered ancient sites across the globe. The only way to map them and locate them quickly is from satellites.

Information had become a critical tool that you can use to raise your bar across every barrier towards excellence. Deny this fact and maintain your bar wherever it was without even a millimeter lift.

I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.

It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The...

Spread your courtesy across the door posts of everyone you know, but reserve your intimacy with the little trustworthy friends who are going where you are going. Get it simply: wide courtesy, narrow intimacy!

Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world.

I don’t oppose pipelines – I like infrastructure – but I heard that the Keystone XL pipeline was going to carry tar sands oil from the lands of the Cree and Dene all the way...

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

Twitter’s a great way to tell people across the world what I care about and, hopefully, motivate them to join me in furthering my causes.

Perhaps I shouldn’t have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across Honduran test, territory destined for El Salvador and I think...

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as ‘I’m cool, look at how many...

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.