I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.
Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.
Everybody understands that you're supposed to say 'our employees are our most valuable asset' to the point where, even if it's really true, they're not going to really trust you until you've earned that - same with customers.
Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.
This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.
[history is written by the winners. And if the Nazis had won, future generations would understand the story of World War ll quite differently]
Dr. Foster: They kill for one reason: they kill for food. They eat their victims, you understand that, Mr. Berman? That's what keeps them going!
Jeff: I don't understand. In musicals, why do they start to sing and dance all of a sudden? I mean, I don't suddenly start... to sing and dance.
John Keating: There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.
Wolf: I'm lookin' for a new punk! Frank Morris: Good luck. Wolf: You don't understand. I just found her!
[last lines] Dorothy Harris: You understand this is the bus to the school, now, don'tcha? Forrest Gump Jr.: Of course; you're Dorothy Harris, and I'm Forrest Gump.
Raoul Duke: You people just don't understand! This car is property of the World Bank, that money goes to Italy!
Vincent: I'll never understand what possessed my mother to put her faith in God's hands, rather than her local geneticist.
Lucius Malfoy: If we are the ones to hand Potter to the Dark Lord, everything will be as it was, you understand?
Larry Gomez: Fuckin' with your cash is the only thing you kids seem to understand!
Big Joe: Now when I come back, I want that farmhouse not only clean but completely decorated. Do you understand that?
Hoggle: You have to understand my position. I'm a coward. And Jareth scares me. Sarah: What kind of a position is that? Hoggle: No position! That's my point.
Young journalist: I'm sorry, I don't understand. Did you stay with your father or go with your mother?
Steve: I hate Pizza Hut! Where's supper? I don't understand, Diane. What the hell's going on around here?
Rosemary Woodhouse: Isn't Hutch coming with us? Skipper: Catholics only, Miss. I'm afraid that we're bound by these prejudices. Rosemary Woodhouse: I understand.
Charlie: What you have to understand is, four days ago he was only my brother in name. And this morning we had pancakes.
