It’s about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That’s partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they’ve done...

Fake tan is really difficult to get right. When I was younger, I’d always do it wrong. I’d leave it on and forget to wash it off. So I embrace being pale. I like getting...

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

I don’t have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I’m big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning...

I can’t listen to my own voice. I change my voicemail on my machine literally every week because I’m so obsessed with getting the right tone of voice.

We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries. We’re getting 80,000 new users each day. And more than half a million people are connected via...

Whether you’re talking about MSNBC or Fox or CNN, it’s all about getting enough interest out there, sensationalizing the story in such a way that people are compelled to tune in.

I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

We’re not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let’s be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.

I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of something. There’s where we have to go in local government, in not only the philosophy but the creativity in people around you....

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life...

It’s getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It’s not in my DNA, but certainly I...

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That’s how I see it.

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it’s getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!

I’m looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.

This is how I feel about horror films: there’s enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I...

The kids started teasing me to get me to swear in Italian. Two or three months, I started retaliating. I found out I could whip these guys. So I’m always fighting, getting even. Even the...

If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it’s going to happen anyhow.

My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it’s definitely tough getting through.

You don’t want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

Most theater methodology is predicated on the idea of repeated actions. That’s what you work toward. Having the actor repeat the same moment eight times a week. In a film, it’s getting that one moment...

I am getting better at facing the bouncers, as I know opposition tries to use those as a weapon against me. Yet, no one is perfect, and he takes time to master a particular thing.

The funny thing is I’m not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, ‘Let them know at the NAACP,...

I’m used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.

There’s a hunger in me that always wants to be creating and orating, telling people something and giving them information and getting feedback. There are so many questions that I’m trying to ask, and I’m...

Even if you feel like your debt is just never going to go away, think long and hard before declaring bankruptcy. Declaring bankruptcy means that getting a loan for anything will be next to impossible...

We must make sure that there is recess and P.E. class in every school, getting kids outside for 60 minutes, every day.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera.

More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we’re getting much more interesting art as a result.

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I’m not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.

When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of...

I love getting dressed up, but I want to be remembered for my singing.

There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play.

I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform...

Personally, I’m not interested in getting more money for what I do; I’m just interested in more money being put into the production.

That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.

The government is just too big, and we have to make it smaller; people are getting lost.

I generally sell my records online or at the show. You can undersell the distributor and the stores, and people know what they’re getting cause they’ve just seen you live.

If I don’t work, I’ll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

If I had a project that I had auditioned for and I was getting close to getting it, I didn’t want to tell anybody because I thought then I wouldn’t get it, but in reality...

Any degree of success or achievement for me is only ever a relief. My version of getting carried away is: ‘Mmm, that wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.’

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.