Quotes of: Straight-man Keyword

If there are two straight sides to every story, they’ll always be one lopsided truth.

The King of Rhyme

After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.

Olly Murs

If you could drive straight down, into a tunnel bored through the crust of the planet, you'd hit this molten mess in about an hour. It's called the asthenosphere - a sluggish sea, several hundred miles thick, on which floats the Earth's cool epidermi...

Seth Shostak

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

Tracy McMillan

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

Ric Keller

I tell you one you straight off in Scotland - Nick de Luca. I don't see his name quoted, but I've played against Nick quite a lot and he is a good player - one of the trickiest centres I've played against.

Brian O'Driscoll

The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was... good.

Ron Wood

Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight.

Burt Ward

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

Katee Sackhoff

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

H. G. Wells

I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.

Dr. Dre

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Chanakya

A big problem for me was opening for Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, two bands that wouldn't exist if it weren't for me, straight up!

Chino Moreno

We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't see straight.

Chita Rivera

Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Wade straight through life, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and heart open.

Donna Tartt

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

Erica Jong

My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.

Gene Hackman

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillor

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Helen Keller

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Helen Keller