— Shaun White"I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them."
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— Shaun White"You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy."
— Steve Martin"Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually."
— Demetri Martin"I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything."
— A. N. Wilson"Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life."
— Lena Dunham"I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line."
— Julia Roberts"I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends."
— Emeril Lagasse"Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff."
— Salma Hayek"My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet."
— David Bowie"I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody."
— David Bowie"I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody."
— Rodney Dangerfield"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out."
— Michelle Bachelet"In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate."
— Michael Jordan"The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort."
— Matt Damon"For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again."
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."
— Lou Holtz"I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that's for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn't play golf."
— Lou Holtz"How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser."
— Lou Holtz"Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference."
— Les Brown"There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win."