There’s no such thing as too late. There are different roles for different ages, assuming an actress has something to offer. There aren’t many Helen Mirrens and Meryl Steeps, and it takes a lot of...

I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to ‘Kashmir’ was a debacle.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, ’cause it’s hard. It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of practice, and a lot...

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees...

I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour.

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

What we really need is for me to get hot and stay hot. When I go, this team really takes off.

I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.

I have advice for people – period – who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it’s hard, sometimes it’s easy, the places that...

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That’s what I hope to do when I make a film – to get under your skin and really make you think about something,...

When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as being people who have well being and comforts, I think...

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices...

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

You know how there’s always the one girl in drama school who can cry at the drop of a hat? She has that emotional well she can tap into in a second? I’m not that...

I can actually build my equipment at the back end of the telescope such that it takes the data from all of the separate antennas and adds the signal together with different time delays and...

In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

I probably won’t be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That’s when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it...

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

It’s hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.

I’m all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!

If you cook chopped tomatoes with all of their juices, it takes a long time for the sauce to reach the right consistency. By then, the freshness is gone.

Along with rock climbing, I hike and I like to go to the beach, anything outdoors and anything that takes me out of the everyday.

It takes a long time to become human.

There’s always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can’t waste time worrying about it.

Working with children is a whole other ball game. They’re like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence...

There’s a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day...

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can’t shut them up.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago’s South Side to the West Side.

To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

I just go where the guitar takes me.

When you’re kept by a patron you don’t have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that’s a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure...

In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you’ve been around for years.

Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across,...

Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.

The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don’t really have a plan.

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.

But there is something to the fact that we don’t see games on the West Coast, or we don’t see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It’s so unfair, because there is...

I know how long it takes me to draw a page, how long it takes me to complete a project, how long I can work before my hand gives out, that sort of thing.

I don’t think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a...

Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.

When I work, I work very hard. When I don’t work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention.

I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!

Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.