Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.
Lewis Gannit
I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family. I just didn`t have the skills to pull that off and so...
Mark Hamill
(on his reluctance to expose the mechanics of his acting process) It`s not that I want to pull the shutters down. It`s just that people have such a misconception about what it is I do. They think the character comes from staying in the wheelchair or being...
Daniel Day-Lewis
When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman`s Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it. No one had any idea that I was going to pull my car around the co...
Danny Bonaduce
I had a teacher who stressed for me the importance of diction in terms of - I want to be very careful about how I say this - in terms of supporting one`s voice when one is singing. In other words, if you hold on to your words, your voice will pull through...
Julie Andrews
I`ve thought about retiring for years now. When I did "Play Misty for Me" in 1970, I thought that if I could pull this off maybe I could step behind the camera, and it would be time to see the end of me. Every year I have threatened to do that - and here ...
Clint Eastwood
[1980]: I know what it`s like to pull the Republican lever for the first time, because I used to be a Democrat myself, and I can tell you it only hurts for a minute and then it feels just great.
Ronald Reagan
[on his role as Father Grandier in The Devils (1971)] You would think from the critics` hostility that Ken Russell had tried to pull off some obscene hoax. On the contrary, the film is, I think, an utterly serious attempt to understand the nature of relig...
Oliver Reed
I went to an all-girls boarding school for most of my youth. We used to do stupid, fun girly things like pull tights over our faces and streak through the lacrosse pitch. And once I snogged the gardener.
Sienna Miller
Once you commit, you commit. You can`t hold back. We all knew that the only way we would pull this [movie] off was for everyone to give everything they had. I could not hold back. On playing "Tracy" in the movie Thirteen (2003).
Evan Wood
I`m lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I`ll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself. But there are always people close to me who I trust, who will scold me and pull my ears if I need it. Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to...
Shakira
[Studios] won`t hire you, even though you screwed the same whores and ate the bullet for it. Yet they pull you aside at a party and say you`re their hero for the things you do. [Variety (August 14, 1997)]
Charlie Sheen
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
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
Albert Einstein
[On his role in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)]: "To this day, I can`t believe I was so brazen to think I could pull off the Jesus role."
Willem Dafoe
As they say in gambling, I`ve gotten to stay at the table. I`ve hung in! They pull the plug on people all the time. The sky hook comes out, and it`s all over. But there are much bigger sky hooks - as well we know. (In Style - February 2006 - "Uma In Full ...
Uma Thurman
Usually, I just play myself. Whatever psychological traumas or conflicts I`m going through at the time I try to put into the role. Sometimes it`s quite a feat to pull off, but sometimes it works. If it doesn`t correspond to the dilemmas of the character, ...
Harry Stanton
[on his role as Charles Gunn on "Angel":] "When I change my lines, I just deliver them and wait for their reaction. I just kind of ad-lib sometimes and they`ll pull me back or they`ll just let it go. When they have a problem with it, they tell me. It`s no...
J. August Richards
[When told that Amy Acker told a reporter that he sometimes flashes his fellow stars:] "Yeah, I pull my trousers down in the middle of a serious take to see if they can keep a straight face. I need to lighten the moment, I guess."
David Boreanaz
I don`t think it will ever be possible to work on a set again where there`s just so much passion for the project, so much pull for it. Being that Beau and Jeff were, of sorts, first-time director and producer for a feature film. [about Cry Wolf]
Sandra McCoy
I figured, let me just cut myself off from everybody, take a minute and pull a Flintstone, stop a speeding car by using my bare feet as brakes. - on his abrupt departure from "Chappelle`s Show" (2003).
Dave Chappelle
My mom was really worried I`d grow up looking strange, so every night before I went to bed, she`d pull my legs and stretch them so they`d be in proportion with the rest of my body.
Jessica Simpson
It`s weird with stand-up comedy. It doesn`t really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do a special in Africa. Can`t beat that. Pull that off, then I will have done something.
Chris Rock
I went through that adolescent crisis where you either jump into the river or jump into spirituality. I felt the call for a while; then I felt the normal pull of the world and the flesh. - PB, referring to his early life as a monk
Peter Boyle