Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities...

If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge...

I won an MVP trophy with the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association. I didn’t even start. I was a sub on this team. This was, like, an All-Star game where we had athletes from different...

The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they’re making a film, they start too early into the story. They will try to set up the characters, they will try...

I’m not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to ‘play’ sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous....

I really don’t know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

Every marriage is weird! That’s what it is – we just all need to start embracing the fact that there is no normal.

I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we’ve been living, breathing and eating for our entire...

We all were courageous in the starting moments, few of us stayed courageous till the final moments and the world called them successful men.

I’ve never been one for late nights, which is why I have always preferred making films to theatre. A play takes over your life: you start to feel sick at lunchtime, and by mid-afternoon, you’re...

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I’m one person and by the time I finish I’m another.

Money is not the priority. A step to dream big and planning of your dreams is a premier action that will see you through a start of your journey to success.

Your choices become your directions the moment you start to implement them. When you make choices and you don’t implement them, your choices may be the best ever, but the most useless.

Heaven will happen someday, but let’s not wait. Heaven can start now.

About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The...

We did not start a fight with America, and we don’t want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not...

I sometimes don’t know what I’m writing when I start writing it, on some level.

Start where you are-do anything you can do, and do everything you can do, until you find something you must do! That something is probably your spiritual gift.

The thing early on that you think is ‘wrong’ with you, that makes you not fit in with everyone else, becomes the key to your career as an actor. Start embracing it.

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

Whenever I start a ‘Potter’ film, I get these dreams. The last dream I had, I was in a war and the sky was blotted with broomsticks and I couldn’t find my wand. It was...

I prefer drawing the things I’ve written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I’m a huge control freak – and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the...

When strangers start acting like neighbors… communities are reinvigorated.

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101....

We have to take the biblical truth and start applying it in the statehouse, the schoolhouse, and the marketplace.

I’ve spoken with a few employers who have moved away from what has to be some of the least attractive language you could use about health risk to start talking about wellbeing.

I hear filmmakers saying, ‘I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,’ but I never start like that.

I want young women when they’re 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.

Everyone has to start somewhere,’ he says, his eyes dark and smoldering, his fingers seeking the scar on my face.The one on my forehead. The one that’s hidden under my bangs. The one he has...

First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start...

I think either you’re creative or you’re not. In general, I don’t think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you’re writing love songs. Then you might need to have some...

Success can locate and visit you even if you are static wherever you are… But you are responsible for constructing the roads… Go, make the roads!

If you’ve got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You’ve got to get rid of that fat! How do you get...

For 20 years I’ve been screaming at these guitar companies, saying, ‘It’s abnormal to put your arm around an acoustic guitar that is about 6 to 8 inches deep.’ Your arm reaches over, and you...

The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we’ve been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just...

I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.

As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I don’t let myself get bored. I just go surfing.

I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn’t really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was...

I like to tell students, ‘I didn’t burst on to the literary scene.’ I’m never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.

START: Serve, Thank, Ask, Receive, Trust

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

The rise of Twitter defined 2011. Once every 5-7 years, a company emerges that changes not just the technology industry, but the world… after what some viewed as a rocky start, in 2011 Twitter broke...

We who don’t want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the...

You have to start living for something that’s worth dying for.

If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.

My dream is big and it travels on top of the waves of change and transformation for many but it starts here, next to home.

Quitters don’t gain what they have started working on; waiters don’t start what they could have gained. What is common there is failure.