Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don’t want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.

The difference between a regular camera and a 3D camera, for an actor, is really no different except that the turn-arounds are longer. It takes a lot longer to set up a shot because the...

It takes two flints to make a fire.

There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.

Everyone takes part in the mosque for one reason; to have a prayer answered.

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big...

The organization that it takes to make a movie like ‘Star Trek’ is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.

Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.

Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction – and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

When you do a record like ‘Talk,’ and you’re happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn’t sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your...

As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.

In politics, they play games. In Hollywood, they play games. I think that, overall, everybody is trying to do whatever it takes to get ahead.

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote… takes on the character of divine...

Sachin is the soul of Mumbai Indians, and I am sure he will guide Bhajji as he takes on the responsibility of captaining Mumbai Indians.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It’s not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It’s more than a hobby.

It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It’s a complicated relationship.

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the ‘security’ out of Social Security.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

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.