I'm not curing cancer or running a small county. I haven't developed a greener car. I just play act. And if I can bring people a moment of fun and relief in their lives, well, that's the win.
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Related I'm not really sick of people whipping their hair. It doesn't really get old. They're fa... WILLOW SMITH When I speak to a victim or their family, people who were left bruised and battered by someone, and ... LORETTA LYNCH I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket sci... RACHAEL RAY I haven't been brought down because people are focused on who I'm dating, what I'm eatin... GARRETT CLAYTON The cancer I had is not at all equal to other people's cancer. I've never had to have chemot... JENNIFER GREY I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacifi... RAMI MALEK When I'm in the studio, I'm looking for creativity I haven't matched yet, a feeling I ha... KENDRICK LAMAR A lot of people have told me, 'You're not this and so can't play that,' and I can... ANNE HATHAWAY I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet. DAVID COPPERFIELD That's my contribution - running a sound, healthy company that serves millions of customers well... JAMIE DIMON If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's jus... CANDICE SWANEPOEL Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's wha... PATTI SMITH Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the pa... MARTHA GELLHORN You just don't want to get pigeon-holed into one position. That's why even though I start ou... LISA LESLIE If people don't think I can fall into what the norm is, that's their problem and not mine. I... PETE BURNS It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the sc... T. J. MILLER We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment. KATEE SACKHOFF I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thi... JACK LOWDEN It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a... CAREY MULLIGAN I haven't won a World Cup. There's things that haven't been finished, and I'm not af... ABBY WAMBACH My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end. BILL KURTIS Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life. JACK NICHOLSON I just don't see myself as retiring. As long as I'm healthy and can play the drums, that'... BILL KREUTZMANN I'm not against anybody. I'm really not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic. I hone... MIKE HUCKABEE I have the advantage of being pretty small, so if I'm flying myself, I'm flying coach. To sa... ANNA KENDRICK I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on... TAYLOR SWIFT If I can sell out clubs and theaters and play dirtbags in movies, and get blown up in a car or get t... BILL BURR A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?&... ZAC EFRON I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously... YASMINE BLEETH I have no way of comparing myself to other people my age; I can't compare myself with Jane Fonda... DIANA RIGG I've always said from starting off, 'I don't mind if I'm in a big budget film or a h... DOMINIC SHERWOOD I'd say I'm a pretty intense person. I'm definitely not my Denise character on 'Scru... ELIZA COUPE I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denominat... RAY CHARLES I can play a cat lady. I can't put my foot down and refuse to play anything but playing the perf... SARAH BAKER I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm p... ERIC DAVIS I just play, that's all. When I'm in the field, I always connect with what I'm doing. I ... ADOLFO CAMBIASO Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I al... CRISTIN MILIOTI I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest s... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I'm just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That's all I'm focused on. KAWHI LEONARD I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always b... GARY NUMAN People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is becau... CHARLIE WATTS If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, p... PATRICK KANE If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun... SEBASTIAN FAULKS I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I... RYAN GOSLING I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just tha... CHANCE THE RAPPER My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been lai... LAYNE STALEY I'm always interested in the moment when lives somehow accidentally cross. I think sometimes tho... SASKIA DE BRAUW I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a ... OLIVIA MUNN Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn't ruine... AARON STATON Why can't I ever play a nice, normal, salt-of-the-earth type? Is there something I should know? ... MEGAN MULLALLY Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think sh... DAVID SUTCLIFFE I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a cert... PAIGE VANZANT In the middle of a play, I go crazy and don't realize what I'm doing. I'll snap back to ... BRIAN BOSWORTH It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you'... CRISPIN GLOVER Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's los... SADE ADU I'm not going to just stop doing it because I got hurt once. People get hurt in car wrecks every... TONY STEWART I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist,... CARINE ROITFELD I'm not a vampire movie fan, per se. That's not to say that I haven't enjoyed movies wit... MAGGIE Q I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I... ALEX WINTER I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, bu... LAINIE KAZAN I'm getting asked a lot, 'You don't have kids, so how do you know how to act like a moth... WINONA RYDER I am not a home breaker and I can never be. I haven't been brought up to create havoc in other p... KAREENA KAPOOR KHAN I can't control what's going to happen in the future. I can't control what's going t... SAM BRADFORD I want to be an NBA all-star and help my team win. That's what it's all about, is winning. I... SHABAZZ MUHAMMAD If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven... DAVID SEDARIS I'm not trying to find another thing that's wrong with me, but I'm such a nice person, a... TRACEY EMIN I don't listen to the radio, cause I don't have a driver's license. But if I'm in L.... BENNY BLANCO I'm on a lot of nonprofit boards, but if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. I haven'... DAVID RUBENSTEIN If I'm listening to country, it's Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle Haggard and stuff like ... BUZZ OSBORNE Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm... LEONARDO DICAPRIO It's been difficult to find roles that are independent, strong, and self-assured; I always say I... LEVEN RAMBIN I feel like regardless of whether or not I win this award or I win that award or I don't win thi... SAM BRADFORD Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, ... MORGAN FREEMAN I find that if I don't have enough physical activity in life, I don't do as well with anythi... BETSY HODGES I enjoy going on hikes, and I enjoy the occasional yoga. The one thing I'm good at athletically ... BRIDGIT MENDLER Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm au... ADAM PALLY If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or g... TADAO ANDO Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the lef... ANGUS YOUNG I can't help who I am. I'm just doing what I feel like I should do in my heart. If I was wal... EVE I'm going to be doing solo stuff. The idea is to do 'small' and 'off my beaten path,... PATTY GRIFFIN You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know tha... TERRY PRATCHETT I haven't gotten a lot of feedback about, 'Oh, you helped me in this way.' But on social... TAYLOUR PAIGE There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't gross... CHLOE SEVIGNY I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act ... NTOZAKE SHANGE Now, when I play soul piano, for instance, and I play a rendition of 'Spain,' I do it decons... CHICK COREA We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But eve... BODE MILLER A lot of people ask me to produce or direct, but I don't think I'm qualified. It's hard ... GONG LI Everyone's weird, I'm just a bit bizarre. PENNIE LILLIAN Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People w... DAVID BECKHAM Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a ga... BEN FELDMAN I really try to have fun. If I don't have fun, you won't have fun. That's what my gift i... LOUIE ANDERSON I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who th... DANIEL RADCLIFFE I'm just playing basketball. I just want to be a great player. That's it. That's all I... KAWHI LEONARD I'm probably not your typical business person in many ways. I don't wear a suit. I don't... GERRY HARVEY I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When ... LAURA ROBSON I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don... PATRICK MACNEE I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the c... LLEYTON HEWITT Lauryn Hill might have cursed a couple of times in her music, and Missy Elliot definitely just doesn... LIL MAMA I think I'm prouder of 'The Victim' than anything else, just because, if nothing else, i... MICHAEL BIEHN I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ... NAOMI SCOTT
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ELISABETH ELLIOT The will of God is sweet tonight, altogether ‘good and acceptable and perfect.’ The considerate ... JIM ELLIOT Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections. ELISABETH ELLIOT Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that... ELISABETH ELLIOT ...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spiri... ELISABETH ELLIOT The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to un... ELISABETH ELLIOT When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us alw... ELISABETH ELLIOT George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Think of the self that God has given as an acorn. It is a marvelous little thing, a perfect shape, p... ELISABETH ELLIOT I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casu... ELISABETH ELLIOT He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really t... ELISABETH ELLIOT The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled... ELISABETH ELLIOT The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-... ELISABETH ELLIOT Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God. JIM ELLIOT When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unne... ELISABETH ELLIOT He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missiona... ELISABETH ELLIOT There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw... ELISABETH ELLIOT The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual d... ELISABETH ELLIOT Single life may be only a stage of a life’s journey, but even a stage is a gift. God may replace i... ELISABETH ELLIOT If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to... ELISABETH ELLIOT To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And t... ELISABETH ELLIOT Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lie... ELISABETH ELLIOT I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Whoever said "Marriage is a 50-50 proposition" laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any ot... AUSTIN ELLIOT There's no way he's supposed to even catch the ball, dribble it, spin and shoot a shot and make a sh... ELLIOT WASHINGTON Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God. JIM ELLIOT This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive. ELISABETH ELLIOT I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adole... TUCKER ELLIOT I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. ... ELISABETH ELLIOT [Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blu... ELISABETH ELLIOT Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. ELISABETH ELLIOT The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word fr... JIM ELLIOT You're moving muscles and improving circulation in areas you can't when you're in a wheelchair on la... JIM ELLIOT "The most meanest and depraved of men come out on top, and women flock to these men.Their evil acts ... ELLIOT RODGER Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age ELLIOT PAUL It's not just one crop in one region. It's multiple crops in most of the state that have been affect... DAVE ELLIOT It was like hitting a brick wall. We're still unsure of what to do. ELLIOT SECRIST I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to cru... JIM ELLIOT We are eager to use the occultation technique to probe for atmospheres around large Kuiper belt obje... JIM ELLIOT The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation WALTER ELLIOT Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call or whatever you want to call i... JIM ELLIOT Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in ... ELLIOT CARTER Two rules to follow: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) It's all small
stuff. ROBERT ELLIOT Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from s... ELISABETH ELLIOT