Big Quotes

"I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari"

Bryan Ferry, Musician

"If you're going to be a bum, be the biggest. If you're going to blow it, blow it big"

Broderick Crawford, Actor

"There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting"

Colin Mochrie, Actor

"One of the big things I miss about New York is not my friends so much; it's Shake Shack, the burger place. I miss Shake Shack"

Aziz Ansari, Comedian

"But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!"

Anna Neagle, Actress

"You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that"

Andy Partridge, Musician

"I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records"

Billy Sherwood, Musician

"We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging"

Danny Elfman, Musician

"Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted such a big part of my life to this band, making it what I want it to be"

Charlie Daniels, Musician

"But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear"

A. J. McLean, Musician

"I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room"

Barbara Castle, Politician

"Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal"

Anna Chlumsky, Actress

"And that's the one thing that people do not understand is that we have very low interest rates and if those go back to historical levels or even go back to scary thoughts that they're back in the late '70s, early '80s, then that's going to really be hard to actually pay off those debts. It's going to be a - it's going to be a very big problem"

Ben Quayle, Politician

"And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one"

Ashley Judd, Actress

"We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle"

Andrew Cohen, Writer

"Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department"

Ann Sothern, Actress

"Singing was the big focus and outlet for me"

Debra Wilson, Comedian

"When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages"

Matt Gonzalez, Politician

"It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual"

Kenneth Baker, Politician

"I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time"

Jim Varney, Actor

"Big thinking precedes great achievement"

Wilferd A. Peterson

"I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well"

Pia Toscano, Musician

"There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us"

Marvin Davis, Businessman

"I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature"

Jerry Orbach, Actor

"I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do"

Gemma Arterton, Actress

"My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another"

Art Linkletter, Journalist

"Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do"

Jane Seymour, Actress

"When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically"

Ajay Naidu, Actor

"There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news"

Pat Sajak, Entertainer

"If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong"

Jeff Hawkins, Inventor

"Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big"

Kate Greenaway, Writer

"We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt"

Dee Dee Myers, Public Servant

"Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while"

William Bolcom, Composer

"Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa, and realize our shared vision of Iowa as the best place to live, work and raise a family"

Thomas Vilsack, Politician

"It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises"

Stanley Schmidt, Writer

"To me, it's really important to drive change through a team because one person, while the buck has to stop with somebody, the company is just too big for one person"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

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