The first time you buy a house you think how pretty it is and sign the check. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It`s the same with men.
Lupe Velez
I`ve honestly not been too aware of my age until I went to the doctor for a full check-up. He said I had the heart of a young man - "but you`re not young, you`re 40".
Sean Connery
My family always keeps me in check. I have three older sisters, and they work their butts off. They`re all very supportive of my career, but I know what`s really important is kids and family.
Katie Holmes
I have a place that`s pretty much cemented in Hollywood in terms of liability, box-office viability and everything else. The only thing an Oscar would do is jack my check up maybe $1 million.
Samuel Jackson
It`s easy to take the check, you know, but if you want to have any longevity, just take things that have artistic merit in them. I want to do quality. If it`s good telly, I`ll do it. If it`s good theater, I`ll do it.
Cillian Murphy
[on leaving Oklahoma for Hollywood, where he became a horse wrangler for Howard Hawks on The Outlaw (1943)] I`d been making a dollar a day as a cowboy, and my first check in Hollywood was for $300. After that, you couldn`t have driven me back to Oklahoma ...
Ben Johnson
Yes, Howard Hughes invented a bra for me. Or, he tried to. And one of the seamless ones like they have now. He was way ahead of his time. But I never wore it in The Outlaw (1943). And he never knew. He wasn`t going to take my clothes off to check if I had...
Jane Russell
I`m a whore. If they have a check and camera and a script and stuff for me to say, I am mostly there, unless I just can`t take it. No, really, I do like to work. It just depends on whether there is a whole lot of stuff for me to choose from, because if th...
Brad Dourif
I got to a very desperate place. Very desperate. Kind of jump-out-of-a-window kind of desperate. And I didn`t want to hang around here, but I didn`t want to check out. The other side was kind of scary. And I don`t like heights, anyway. But when you get to...
Mel Gibson
I don`t go to work to have fun. I turn up, say my lines, collect my check, and then go home to my wife and kid. I ain`t there to stick around and laugh and cut up with people, and I ain`t there to giggle and play jokes and pull people`s underwear down and...
Thomas Jane
[During a microphone check on August 11 1984, unaware that he was being broadcast]: My fellow Americans. I`m pleased to announce that I`ve signed legislation outlawing the Soviet Union. We begin bombing in five minutes.
Ronald Reagan
[On Ace in the Hole (1951)] I was attacked by every paper because of that movie. They loathed it. It was cynical, they said. Cynical, my ass. I tell you, you read about a plane crash somewhere nearby and you want to check out the scene, you can`t get to i...
Billy Wilder
[1971] Get a checkup. Talk someone you like into getting a checkup. Nag someone you love into getting a checkup. And while you`re at it, send a check to the American Cancer Society. It`s great to be alive.
John Wayne
Alcohol helped. I`d do my thing for about 30 minutes, pretty much just one scene, and then the producers would cut me a check. In 30 minutes I was $15,000 richer. The money was great, but it was starting to wear on me, wear on my conscience. To be honest,...
Jaimee Foxworth
[On the impact of The Godfather (1972)] "I`d gotten to know quite a few mafiosi, and all of them told me they loved the picture because I had played the Godfather with dignity. Even today I can`t pay a check in Little Italy."
Marlon Brando
On asked who he would invite to a dinner party he answered: "I`d have to have Jesus Christ there - I`d like to check him out. I`d also have to have [the Italian revolutionary] Garibaldi, because he`s a hero of mine, and I`d invite Shakespeare and King Hen...
Jamie Bamber
After "Dynasty" (1981), I wanted a reality check. I wanted to get in touch with real life, you know? That kind of world is kind of outrageous.
Linda Evans
If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn`t bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.
Stephen King
If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn`t bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.
Stephen King
I don`t know Shakespeare! I`m not a serious actor. Directors always make references, and I go: "Ah, I`ll check it out," and I never, ever do. I`m incredibly lazy.
Joaquin Phoenix
[On her morning routine]: Every morning I stay in bed for ten minutes to ponder my place in the universe. Then I wash my face and check my karma.
Drew Barrymore
If you were stranded on a desert island, which four things would you need to survive? "I`d take a good book - Dante`s Divine Comedy, because you can never plumb the depths of that. I would also take a mask and snorkel so I could check out the fish, becaus...
Jamie Bamber
Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I`m crazy for turning down all that money, but I`m very picky. I`d made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again, so it`s not about a big check with me. ...
Macaulay Culkin
I`m about 50/50 when it comes to technology. I can check my email and search for stuff, but if I hear we`re on this and this and this site, then I need an exact link to get there otherwise I`m going to get lost.
Jenna Dewan
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it`s in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
M.C. Escher
