Up Quotes · Page 574

People often look up to actors. It is not right on their part to do songs whose lyrics are not good. Actors…

— Kumar Sanu

Sometimes, history sneaks up on you. And sometimes you know it's coming.

— Bill de Blasio

By the time I got writing 'Halcyon,' I was on a roll, and I realized I had so much to write about,…

— Ellie Goulding

I got 'Smooth' when I was growing up. I got 'Bigshot' playing in Detroit. People who know me from Denver call me…

— Chauncey Billups

I really started from the bottom. When I got drafted, I was not playing. I had to work my way up. Then…

— Evan Fournier

I'm a spokesperson, and advocate of awareness. So when anything comes up on our bodies - if it's skin cancer or a…

— Camille Grammer

Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.

— Madhur Mittal

I think players need to get paid for what they're worth, for what they put up on the field.

— Alex Morgan

You are going to get knocked down, but you don't lie there. You get up and face the challenge.

— Ara Parseghian

I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care…

— Jo Brand

You can get bored up there on stage, night after night. But it's an open forum where you can get away with…

— Mike Patton

My - I grew up in - I grew up in public housing. My dad, for most of my life, worked for…

— Lloyd Blankfein

Everyone says to you, 'if you play Ophelia, you'll end up crazy,' but we're all somewhere on the spectrum of mental health,…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I grew up beyond proud - we didn't have much, but we had a lot of love.

— Frankie Valli

Our kids are growing up with more privilege than we had; that's true for most of my friends in L.A. I don't…

— Matt Damon

But as I often say, terrorists won't check our party registration before they blow us up.

— Jane Harman

YG and I told each other when we was coming up that if we didn't feel like we was close to making…

— Mustard

I hope that MMA in Venezuela blows up! But here's the thing, I also want it to blow up in Mexico. I…

— Julianna Pena

For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, 'Okay, I should kick up my standard of…

— Dustin Moskovitz

North Carolinians have shown we know how to lift one another up.

— Roy Cooper

I grew up in Chicago, but I spent a lot of time down in Kentucky, and Kentucky was about 20 years behind…

— John Prine

There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads…

— John James Audubon

People would come to me and say, 'Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star…

— Jet Li

I'd looked up to smaller guys when I was younger. I'd watch players like Danny Briere and Martin St. Louis, and quietly…

— Johnny Gaudreau

Even though I spent the first five years of my life in Nagasaki, going to Japan can be really difficult. Even if…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't…

— James Lasdun

When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I…

— Victor Ortiz

I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I…

— Natascha McElhone

My football idol growing up, I was named after Walter Payton, but my idols at RB were Barry Sanders and Emmitt Smith.

— Peyton Hillis

I watched the NBA a lot growing up. I was a big fan, especially of the Bulls in the early 90s.

— Manu Ginobili

I always say: 'If I'm lucky enough to be given the opportunity to work again, that's it, I'm being wheeled on, sitting…

— Michelle Gomez

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder…

— Heather O'Neill

I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates.

— Tyler Joseph

I think everyone is fairly fed up with mildly dysfunctional people being put under pressure and then behaving abysmally.

— Tony Robinson

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

— Freida Pinto

Not only do the Americans not defend our films, they buy them up just for remakes. It is shameful to kneel at…

— Jean-Paul Belmondo

I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us…

— Sxip Shirey

This worldwide spread of recognition is insane. I was brought up in a small country. If you made a Swedish film that…

— Alicia Vikander

I was an only child, and had to grow up very, very quickly.

— Kerry Katona

When one shows up in jeans and a T-shirt, I strongly feel that the audience reacts in a very different way than…

— Bill Nye