Big Quotes

"Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album"

Dennis Brown, Musician

"Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with"

Drew Carey, Actor

"The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest"

Chen Shui-bian, Statesman

"Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987"

Bonnie Tyler, Musician

"I think my first bikini, I was four and it was polka dotted and I had a big belly and I looked dashing"

Ashley Scott, Actress

"A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull"

Bruce Dickinson, Musician

"But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about"

Alexander Payne, Director

"I like the big questions"

Christy Turlington, Model

"Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing"

Adriana Lima, Model

"It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up"

Alvin Lee, Musician

"People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George"

Carrie Fisher, Actress

"We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we've got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world"

Dan Hawkins, Musician

"However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once"

Bruce McCulloch, Actor

"When I get older, I don't think I'll like to have wrinkles, or a big jelly belly. I cannot have it"

Adriana Lima, Model

"The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else"

Barry McGuire, Musician

"My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll"

Billy Corgan, Musician

"I just wrapped this movie called The Wedding Crashers which was a pretty big break for me"

Bradley Cooper, Actor

"We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl"

Amy Adams, Actress

"Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music"

Brian Setzer, Musician

"It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings"

Brian Setzer, Musician

"I'm drawn to doing interesting stuff at work. And some of the time with the supernatural, you get to do really crazy, fun things. But I'm not a big genre-fantasy gal, particularly"

Anna Paquin, Actress

"There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life"

Alvin Lee, Musician

"I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport"

Barry Bonds, Athlete

"In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it"

Bernice Johnson Reagon, Musician

"I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen"

Andy Garcia, Actor

"When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those"

Bill Condon, Director

"I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

"I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you"

Amy Winehouse, Musician

"I'd never have written the big books in London"

Jilly Cooper, Author

"At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down"

Jilly Cooper, Author

"The world is sick of big IT things that don't work"

Tony Scott, Director

"I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly"

Steve Yzerman, Athlete

"Darren McCarty is a big video game guy, and he brings his systems with him on the road"

Steve Yzerman, Athlete

"And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie"

Claudia Cardinale, Actress

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