Basically Quotes · Page 17

The audience basically likes complex characters, and bringing out the complexities is the actor's job. The audience doesn't have the script, the…

— Neeraj Kabi

The only regular exercise I do is playing my shows, which are basically two hours of aerobics.

— KT Tunstall

The unifying factor in my career across investing and entrepreneurship was that the whole time I've basically been an involuntary power user…

— Justin Kan

I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing…

— Ian Gillan

I've done films over the years that basically no one saw. And I'm thankful that some of them haven't been seen.

— Sam Elliott

In Scotland, I have a huge barn full of woodworking tools. I love working with my hands. I basically just make myself…

— Greg Wise

Basically every match I receive some racist comment, and you can cross some racist person.

— Gael Monfils

I belong to the breed of first-generation entrepreneurs who have basically created our enterprises with very frugal resources.

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

I frequently find after a rehearsal of a performance that I have more breath, and can walk better and climb stairs better…

— Jeffrey Tate

I really ought to try and make a film that's a bit more cynical. But I don't think I'd know how to…

— Nigel Cole

I work very closely with my publisher and just give them tons and tons of music, and then they link that with…

— Dave Sitek

I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories…

— J. Cole

I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or…

— Yael Naim

The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be…

— Jonny Greenwood

It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's…

— Peter Singer

The cow, basically, eats three basic things in their feed: corn, beets, and barley, and so what I do is I actually…

— Homaro Cantu

Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it…

— Larry King

You don't want someone to think you're from New Hampshire, because who cares about New Hampshire? You're basically just a pass-through.

— Timothy Simons

Basically, I was always disappointed that the witches weren't real when we learned about the Salem witch trials.

— Robert Eggers

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. I was 4 or 5 or…

— Stephan Pastis

Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the…

— Jack Horner

I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting…

— Tom Jenkinson

I can't escape crooning the 'Mitwa... Kahe Dhadkan Tujhse Kya' number wherever I perform. Basically, I am a classically rooted musician.

— Shankar Mahadevan

I've worked on enough houses to be basically familiar with pretty much any situation out there.

— Bryan Baeumler

I know teams are gameplanning against me, trying to not let me shoot pull-ups, basically trying to take me out of the…

— Kemba Walker

Most interviewers basically just want us to rephrase the bio. You already know us - why do you need to interview us?

— Mike D

I'm not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions…

— Michael Mullen

MPs are basically bonded labourers of their parties. And it is the party high command of each party, which takes decisions.

— Arvind Kejriwal

Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

— Tadanobu Asano

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's…

— Val Kilmer

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically…

— Talulah Riley

I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can…

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

Basically, Trump's significant first moves have been twofold. To marginalize the media, and to start dismantling the federal government.

— Masha Gessen

A fiduciary standard means, basically, put the interests of the client first. No excuses. Period.

— John C. Bogle

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

— James Taylor

I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.

— Johann Lamont

My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's…

— Bill Burr

Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density.

— Robert Irwin

Twitter is basically just writing a bunch of one-liners - it's a short form or whatever.

— Chris Cubas