Big Quotes

"In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland"

Ruud van Nistelrooy, Athlete

"We will continue to be a big contributor to NATO and our interests will be more secure"

Liam Fox, Politician

"Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team"

Laurent Jalabert, Athlete

"Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly"

Gene Ween, Musician

"And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that"

Todd Solondz, Writer

"I knew that people were going to talk about it, I knew it was embarrassing, and I knew it was a big deal. But did I think that it was going to be this thing that followed me for, you know, the next years to come? I guarantee you, 25 years from now, I'll be known as the girl that lip synced on 'SNL.' But, you know, it was a weird thing. Not fun"

Ashlee Simpson, Musician

"If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs"

Arthur Baer

"I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head"

John Fahey, Musician

"The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country"

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Politician

"I'm little, but I love big things"

Lorrie Fair, Athlete

"Sex and the City changed New York-New York's become a big shoe store now, unfortunately"

Chris Noth, Actor

"Big business has no party and never shall have"

Haley Barbour, Politician

"Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club"

Greg Egan, Scientist

"Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty"

Margot Asquith, Author

"I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on"

Melissa Auf der Maur, Musician

"The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first"

Joel Coen, Director

"My husband is someone who's in the real world. It's a big help that I don't have both feet in Hollywood"

Jeri Ryan, Actress

"A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away"

Jeremy Irons, Actor

"The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers"

Evan G. Galbraith, Diplomat

"Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world"

Jeff Goldblum, Actor

"In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut"

Todd Solondz, Writer

"Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening"

Emma Thompson, Actress

"I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so"

Eddie Marsan, Actor

"I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion"

Susannah McCorkle, Musician

"If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big"

Steve Kanaly, Actor

"You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line"

Bob Anderson

"Even when you have a big budget, you can't just shoot everything"

Debbie Allen, Actress

"I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff"

Hilary Duff, Actress

"Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta"

Herschel Walker, Athlete

"I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more"

Hayden Fry, Coach

"We as Americans assume that big companies are bad, and big power companies are even worse"

Frank Luntz, Politician

"John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor"

Gene Siskel, Critic

"Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'"

David Spade, Actor

"If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody"

Diego Maradona, Athlete

"I'm a big believer of daylight in the studio"

Geddy Lee, Musician

"I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm"

Douglas Trumbull, Director

"We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge, let's go after it"

Dick Butkus, Athlete

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