Big Quotes

"What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive"

"I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special"

"I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81"

"Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart"

"Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared"

January Jones, Actress

"You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock"

Jim Cramer, Businessman

"But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal"

Gavin DeGraw, Musician

"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down"

Ethel Waters, Musician

"They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given"

George Clooney, Actor

"Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air"

Helmut Jahn, Architect

"Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige"

George Murray, Poet

"I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"The big secret in acting is listening to people"

Eli Wallach, Actor

"My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar"

Duncan Sheik, Musician

"New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been"

Ethel Waters, Musician

"I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy"

Nguyen Cao Ky, Politician

"I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty"

Morgan Brittany, Actress

"The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step"

Calista Flockhart, Actress

"We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!"

Dave Matthews, Musician

"I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

"I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films"

Campbell Scott, Actor

"If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to"

Eric San, Musician

"I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record"

Duncan Sheik, Musician

"Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar"

Channing Pollock, Actor

"It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity"

Christopher Atkins, Actor

"I'm a very big believer in fate"

Christopher Atkins, Actor

"But I don't want to lose touch with things like eating in Bob's Big Boy"

Drew Carey, Actor

"The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it"

Carol Moseley Braun, Politician

"I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time"

Leonard Nimoy, Actor

"Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries"

Bob Inglis, Politician

"I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different"

Delta Burke, Actress

"And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing"

Delta Burke, Actress

"What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life"

Debi Thomas, Athlete

"I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh"

Calista Flockhart, Actress

"The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be"

Dan Hawkins, Musician

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