I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
Audrey Hepburn
Related I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn... AUDREY HEPBURN I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act. BURT REYNOLDS So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment. MARK TWAIN Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I I've always known that I wanted to sing, and I wanted to dance, and I wanted to act. ALEX NEWELL I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it ... DICK VAN DYKE When I was starting out in this business, that was the norm. You did it all. You looked around, and ... CAROL BURNETT I wanted to be a Broadway star when I was younger. I wanted to sing and dance until I realized I was... MICHELLE BRANCH When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took... DICK VAN DYKE When I started singing, I was covering Lauryn Hill, Brandy, and all the girl groups of the '90s.... KEHLANI I fell in love with Crawford because when she was twenty or twenty five, she would dance and talk an... BERENICE BEJO When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then. CARINE ROITFELD I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host. DAVID LETTERMAN I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor deta... STEVE MARTIN I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother play... JOHNNY CASH When I was eight years old, I asked my mum, 'Mum, can I do two jobs?' And she was like, '... CHARLIE ROWE I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I I came from the musical stage. My first show was '110 In The Shade.' I started as a ballet d... LESLEY ANN WARREN I dance with hopes and sing along with possibilities. DEBASISH MRIDHA As a person i couldnt say, although i am well apuainted with tales of his atrocities. every time bro... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI When I sing it puts a twinkle in their eyes and a smile on their face and I always feel closer to th... CHRIS BAKER When he finally stopped calling, the hush felt strange. It felt like the whole world went silent whe... RACHEL VINCENT I asked her to dance and we did. Then I asked for her phone number and wanted to see her, BILL COSBY When I wished to sing of love it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow it was transf... FRANZ SCHUBERT When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was tran... FRANZ SCHUBERT I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance. NASTASSJA KINSKI I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I... ALEXANDER SKARSGARD In all that I saw, I was satisfied, for I could dance in the drops of water, laugh with the laps of ... KAYLA SEVERSON I grew up with the movies of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Judy Garland - these are the kinds of s... MAX VON ESSEN Before I took lessons, I wouldn't be the first one out on a dance floor. And I certainly would shy a... EMILY ZYWICKE I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I... LINDSAY LOHAN I just got to act cool all day and dance with Lee Ann, JACK INGRAM He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo... CHRISTINA ENGELA What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady,' 'Funny Face,' 'American ... DIANNA AGRON When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to mo... JACOB ARTIST I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I'm a lunatic. I sing, I dance. CHRIS EVANS Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS Soccer couldnt afford training camps or anything like that. BRUCE MORROW Well, I can't (sing or dance). Actually, I sing like a seal and dance like your Uncle Leo at that we... RICHARD DREYFUSS I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young. POPE FRANCIS We had to shoot the Last Splash dance scene, and that was the song that was playing. So we probably ... EMMA ROBERTS Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her. FRANCIS I Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy. STANISLAUS I Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma... BAUDOUIN I Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. NAPOLEON I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. GREGORY I One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su... I CHING The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and rema... I CHING Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p... I CHING Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force o... I CHING Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal de... I CHING The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its tru... I CHING Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such re... I CHING The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances bo... I CHING A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then... I CHING He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather frie... I CHING Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a... ELIZABETH I Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world perish. FERDINAND I Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you... ELIZABETH I I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e... ELIZABETH I Never make a defense or apology before you are accused. CHARLES I It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy... BAUDOUIN I Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been ... ELIZABETH I Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let t... I CHING In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings ... FAROUK I Never make a defence or apology before you be accused. CHARLES I The daughter of debate
That still discord doth sow. ELIZABETH I 'Twas God the word that spake it,
He took the bread and brake it,
And what the word did make i... ELIZABETH I If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen... ELIZABETH I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty GREGORY I The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig... I. KRISHNAMURTI People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business. A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground. The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff... The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn. Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words. Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. ELIZABETH I In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness. That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it. It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. ELIZABETH I A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing. ELIZABETH I
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