Well Quotes

"I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well"

"Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical"

"One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series"

Ted Danson, Actor

"One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority"

Jamelia, Musician

"I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well"

Tommy Kirk, Actor

"We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets"

Orville Redenbacher, Businessman

"I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all"

George Lopez, Comedian

"I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me"

Bobby Farrelly, Director

"Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage"

Arthur Godfrey, Entertainer

"Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery"

William Gurnall, Author

"Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here"

Patricia Hewitt, Politician

"Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can"

Sue Grafton, Novelist

"The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man"

Louis Farrakhan, Activist

"The real challenge was to model all the interest rates simultaneously, so you could value something that depended not only on the three-month interest rate, but on other interest rates as well"

John C. Hull, Professor

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding"

Louis D. Brandeis, Judge

"I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well"

Juliette Lewis, Actress

"And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy"

Mel Tillis, Musician

"Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager"

Donal Logue, Actor

"The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls"

Burt Bacharach, Composer

"One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled"

Charles de Lint, Writer

"Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"I may as well say it, I have been married three times"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well"

Albert Finney, Actor

"I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it"

Alan Hovhaness, Composer

"A bedroom requires a bed. Everything else was extravagance. Well, he had a bed all right"

Audrey Meadows, Actress

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul"

John Muir, Environmentalist

"I really tried out for the part of Harry Potter, but they ended up picking me for the part of the enemy of Harry. Actually it is really fun playing the bad kid because it just has so many interesting qualities to it. And Daniel Radcliffe and I get along really well off set so it's really fun filming"

Tom Felton, Actor

"I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can't really pet them"

Tom Felton, Actor

"Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000"

Trevor Brooking, Athlete

"My dream had always just been to do my work well, fall in love and build a life for myself"

Carrie Snodgress, Actress

"God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person"

Oral Roberts, Clergyman

"I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio"

Clint Black, Musician

"Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

"Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well"

Kate Middleton, Celebrity

"Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision"

John Money, Psychologist

"I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have"

Ana Gasteyer, Comedian

"We went to Detroit. I wanted to see what was going on in some other parts of the world. You know, I was just traveling, like. I had a minister that lived here. He was in St. Louis and he said things was going so well and that it was such a wonderful place"

Charles Phillips

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