Big Quotes

"If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal"

Trisha Goddard, Entertainer

"I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

"Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me"

Jonathan Dimbleby, Writer

"You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead"

Patricia Clarkson, Actress

"I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything"

Mike Lowry, Politician

"I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat"

Sharon Stone, Actress

"We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work"

Ted Danson, Actor

"You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy"

Irving Kristol, Editor

"I have tremendous faith in theuniverse. I feel at home on this planet. Even though it's a very big world out there, I plan on walking right through the middle of it unharmed"

Marion Ross, Actor

"The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique"

Minna Antrim, Writer

"Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that"

David Zucker, Director

"Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'"

River Phoenix, Actor

"When I was younger, I had big visions of changing the world"

Rick Danko, Musician

"I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films"

Laura Dern, Actress

"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it"

John Burns, Activist

"I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise"

Ted Danson, Actor

"I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning"

Shelley Duvall, Actress

"So the bandwidth issue is definitely a big concern of ours"

Shawn Fanning, Businessman

"Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham"

Pat Summerall, Celebrity

"It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job"

Susan Sarandon, Actress

"Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more"

Sharon Stone, Actress

"I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done"

River Phoenix, Actor

"Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk"

Kenneth Grahame, Novelist

"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us"

Yahoo Serious, Director

"You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time"

Paul Bryant, Coach

"Whatever its other limitations, the Big Apple and those who live there make room for their dogs and cats, take good care of them and abide by the rules made necessary by a huge population"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time"

Josef Albers, Artist

"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking"

Joe Eszterhas, Writer

"It really helps you to go through difficult situations by just thinking about it as being a big amount of work which you have to solve how to do. For example, I don't feel very inspired when I act, I just act. That's it"

Isabelle Huppert, Actress

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