Else Quotes

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

I'm not always up to date on everything that's going on, but I am somewhat informed. I listen to NPR. And I actually watch Fox News, because I believe, if you just listen to the things that agree with you, you're not really seeing anything else.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.

Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?

The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

I don't think anyone has a right to possess anything he doesn't love - art or anything else.

The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.

The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.

I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.

The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.

The thing that drives me more than anything else is being a father.

If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.

I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

I don't always have the stomach muscles I have, and I get cellulite as well like everyone else.

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.

I've never been able to sky-dive, and I've always wanted to. I've probably done everything else, but for some reason the insurance company won't let me do it.

The only person I've worked with on my album was Kanye. And between the stuff that I've done and the stuff that he's assisted on and produced for me for this album, I don't even need anything else.

The bill then says if the Senate does not act, then H.R. 1 (the House-passed bill that cuts $61 billion) will be the law of the land. In addition to that, it says that if all else fails, and the Senate brings about a shutdown, then members should not get their pay.

To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

I want people to see me for who I am and not for how someone else is trying to promote me.

You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else.

I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.

My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.