Before Quotes · Page 51

To me, it's always good to retain a sense of wonder and never good too big for life, like you've seen it…

— Gerard Butler

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.

— Martin Freeman

I think it's important to be kind to the world before it disappears if we don't take care of it.

— Danielle Panabaker

“So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?”

— Brandon Sanderson

The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.

— Tony Benn

I worked on 'Always and Forever, Lara Jean' for a few months before I breathed a word of it my editor or…

— Jenny Han

Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

— Budd Schulberg

Even before coming into the industry, I was a big fan of Motown, the Jackson 5, Gladys Knight, the Temptations, Diana Ross…

— Stephanie Mills

Before and after my debut, I've helped out other manga artists from time to time, but I have no experience of being…

— Natsuki Takaya

In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and…

— Don Ameche

When I get out of work early, or if I have some time before I go into the studio, I go to…

— Becky G

Having run Tellme before, one of the things I learned about running a big network is it's one thing to have some…

— Mike McCue

I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a…

— Brunello Cucinelli

The trick is after a workout you're supposed to have gummy bears or some candy to get your veins to stick out.…

— Colton Haynes

You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did…

— Patricia Marx

Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are…

— Rick Perlstein

My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.

— Alicia Witt

In order to get a note out, I have to dig deep, and I mean that on an emotional level. To physically…

— Ray LaMontagne

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You…

— Georges Clemenceau

Long before Wesley Snipes decided he didn't need to pay the IRS, Willie Nelson was dodging the tax men.

— Shawn Amos

I've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through.

— Tim Howard

I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.

— Joan Van Ark

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

— Afrojack

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.

— M.I.A

It takes a while to get a show on, and I've a number that have not yet been produced. I want to…

— Leslie Bricusse

What is the NCAA going to do a program if a kid leaves before two years. You can't control it. The NBA…

— Ben Howland

Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.

— Robert Shaw

I've written before that the president is our national avatar - a stand-in for what we believe we are, or want to…

— Joy Reid

It was strange what happened to me; I mean popping out like that before I was even ten.

— Cleo Moore

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

— Siri Hustvedt

I've always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was... And acting, that I've been doing…

— Alan Arkin

My character in 'Casa de mi Padre' is an ambitious woman. I had never played that kind of character before.

— Genesis Rodriguez

But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really…

— Jack Nance

About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.

— Takeru Kobayashi

I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

— Andrae Crouch

Before 'Moonrise,' I never thought I would be in a movie where I would be struck by lightning.

— Jared Gilman

You are always trying to please people before you get to the public whenever you do anything that requires a corporate body…

— Rita Rudner

One of my biggest goals is to spur economic development in communities and neighborhoods that have not had that before.

— Kevin Faulconer

Look, I know he's been married three times before. I accept it, but I don't want it driving up the driveway.

— Meg Tilly

When I first came out to L.A., Hollywood's idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen…

— Lauren Velez