For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times.
Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special.
I'll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that situation once. Then I'll say, forget it, it was a scene I was in. That can get to be quite confusing.
Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.
I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.
I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
Once in the end of the world hath he [Jesus] appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
