Up Quotes · Page 174

I'd rather do smaller theaters, because it's more fun for the audience and more fun for me. I like to build up…

— Noel Fielding

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

— V. S. Naipaul

Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

— Phil McGraw

I always wake up kind of early - well, early for me, which is about 8 A.M.

— Romain Grosjean

I tried to just rely on my talent years ago and ended up losing a couple of fights because of that.

— Paddy Pimblett

I couldn't believe that people went to see 'Saw,' that people actually lined up.

— Leigh Whannell

I lined up with the Republicans because they were antitax, and I wanted to make a lot of money.

— Ed Schultz

When you grow up in the Premier League and grown up watching it, nothing else compares.

— Bradley Wright-Phillips

Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to…

— Craig Brown

One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

We've actually got a Chelsea loan WhatsApp group. The loan department set it up. Sometimes it drains your battery when everyone is…

— Patrick Bamford

I'm not overconfident. It's just that I'm not caught up in that. What will be will be. The die is cast. I…

— Wendy Williams

I think that it's a benefit to have distractions because you don't overconsume yourself with what-ifs and you end up second-guessing yourself.

— Denny Hamlin

Berry Gordy discovered more superstars than anyone I know. I grew up in that environment, and I know you can develop talent…

— Suzanne de Passe

You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt…

— W. G. Sebald

Bobby Darin was one of the first to take black musicians on the road with his band, and there were places that…

— Kevin Spacey

I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th…

— Gil Scott-Heron

When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some…

— Robert Gottlieb

When we began working on Parque Pumalin, rumours flew that we were establishing a nuclear waste site for the United States or,…

— Douglas Tompkins

What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash…

— Kevin Nealon

I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8.…

— Ellen Potter

I have never called myself an opera singer. Other people do, but I always call myself a classical singer. I'd love to…

— Katherine Jenkins

I had a fun high school experience. We had a big old prom, we had 400 kids in the graduating class and…

— Jonathan Keltz

Growing up in the '70s, it was only a few years before that when men started to grow their hair long. And…

— Nikki Sixx

If I dress up, I am encouraging men to look at me and if I don't, I am lazy.

— Rhea Pillai

Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

— Christian McKay

To be honest, whenever I run away from something, I land up straight into it.

— Shilpa Shinde

I think growing up in the West Midlands helped, it was fairly chill.

— Ben Francis

If you don't make weight, you're breaching a contract, straight up.

— Robert Whittaker

I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference.

— Natasha Leggero

I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him…

— Karl Malone

I think growing up in Vancouver is a different lifestyle than growing up in most other places.

— Finn Wolfhard

The country has been shaken up by me. I am just being myself.

— Ko Wen-je

Every time somebody would ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I would always say, 'I want to…

— Lilla Crawford

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

— Virat Kohli

'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.

— Matthew Desmond

Aamir Khan was a very big influence, I think, when my generation was growing up.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

'Minecraft' opens up a world of limitless possibilities, driven by the player and created by the fans who love it.

— Rob Manuel

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in…

— Evan Williams