I’m not really the party person. I don’t ‘become myself’ once I’m drunk. I don’t use alcohol to be happy.

I think women want to feel beautiful. They want to feel seductive. I also try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once. If...

I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt...

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you’re pampered, you get lazy.

I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It’s important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you’ve got to treat them with love.

I was told once that I didn’t play the Hollywood game, and that’s why I wasn’t a big star. What they meant when was that I don’t go to parties, and when I go to...

I’m an awfully loyal friend. Once I’ve started a relationship with someone, it’s like they are syrup and I’m a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.

Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.

I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once...

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral; I was afraid to have the actors’ backs turned away, afraid to put...

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I’d found my place in the business.

Once you lose the weight, you’re really anxious to eat healthy.

Once I start writing, I can’t stop.

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job – this thing that was highly visible, this thing...

Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.

I’ve actually been asked once or twice if I had some Puerto Rican in me.

Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself… By giving me this...

In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market – the executives would get to loot their own firms once, then they’d...

I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don’t feel like I am representing women. That’s up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.

I grew up and I kind of took the road of becoming a pilot, which was another dream I had of flying, and once I did attend the air force academy, that dream of flying...

Over the years, with all the experience, I’ve become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender...

Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.

Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.

It’s been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had...

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to...

I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.

Chennai is one of the scariest crowds to face. Everyone looks so conservative, but once you crack the first joke, they are so appreciatively loud that they will hit you with a laugh that will...

Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it’s done...

You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people – 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.

Something I’m going to try to really instill in my own family is a lot of tradition. And, I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of...

And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, ‘I think the challenge in Jordan – and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East – we need to...

But as a German – and I am German-born – we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

You can never really judge your work because once it’s done, it’s done.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

I have several books I can read over and over. With fiction, it’s ‘The Stand’ by Stephen King, which is my favorite all time. I read that at least once a year, the version which...

You never know what you find once you really get going.

Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it...

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we’ve also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

In my sports or workout life, I like to prove to myself I can do something, whether it’s a half marathon or whatever it is. I like to take challenges that scare me because then...

I have three kids in Britain, and I am there at least once a month.

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t never been seen by this generation.

There is no secret, once we go to qualifying, we all seem to enjoy it. Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It’s like a...

I think they quite like me when I work because I’m one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don’t bring their costs in back home, once they’re shown outside of...