Leslie Nielsen quote: "It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do."

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.
LESLIE NIELSEN

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the tri...
LESLIE NIELSEN

'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.'
LESLIE NIELSEN

Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.
LESLIE NIELSEN

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Lau...
LESLIE NIELSEN

It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just t...
LESLIE NIELSEN

You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the righ...
LESLIE NIELSEN

Doing nothing is very hard to do...you never know when you're finished.
LESLIE NIELSEN

Dracula: Dead and Loving it.
LESLIE NIELSEN

You're excited? You should feel my nipples!
LESLIE NIELSEN

Leslie has the ability to do two things: he can be menacing and scary and he can be incredibly stupi...
LESLIE NIELSEN

It's a different ballgame, ... It'll be funny, interesting. As actors, we're doing our own writing.
LESLIE NIELSEN

With a blonde bombshell (Francis) in the picture, there could be no love affair between her and anyb...
LESLIE NIELSEN

I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf, ... There goes the Nike account.
LESLIE NIELSEN

The reason there's a question mark on my front door is just in case I forget my address.
LESLIE NIELSEN

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and y...
LESLIE NIELSEN

Shirley! Don't call me Shirley!
LESLIE NIELSEN

Don't call me Shirley!
LESLIE NIELSEN

Who are you and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.
LESLIE NIELSEN

They've been cutting back on real actors for a long time,
LESLIE NIELSEN

You could respond to it on a very human basis.
LESLIE NIELSEN

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thin...
CONNIE NIELSEN

Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.
HELEN NIELSEN

Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows
HELEN NIELSEN

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A ...
CONNIE NIELSEN

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.
BRIGITTE NIELSEN

It's a very, very tricky situation. I haven't said yes to either of them.
BRIGITTE NIELSEN

I do expose my body, but only because I think people should have something nice to look at.
BRIGITTE NIELSEN

Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date.
BRIGITTE NIELSEN

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get ove...
BRIGITTE NIELSEN

We have to overthrow the idea that it's a diversion from 'real' work when scientists con...
MICHAEL NIELSEN

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-d...
CONNIE NIELSEN

The best Web sites are better than reality.
JAKOB NIELSEN

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.
A. NIELSEN

I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more ti...
CONNIE NIELSEN

Total restoration of a flood-damaged car can be as extensive and expensive as restoring a classic ca...
JOHN NIELSEN

There is a huge opportunity to do more with online video. The increase in broadband access is making...
CHRIS NIELSEN

I think that?s the end-game, the Holy Grail. Where you can electronically sit down at any PC in the ...
TODD NIELSEN

...studies show that in general, optimists die ten years earlier than pessimists."
"I find that...
SUSIN NIELSEN

I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los A...
CONNIE NIELSEN

Users spend most of their time on other websites.
JAKOB NIELSEN

The seed for our tobacco originated in Venezuela. We grow it because it most closely resembles 18th-...
DAVID NIELSEN

Go play the game because you love it, not because you want to be great at it.
SEAN NIELSEN

In the 35 years I've been around, the seniors have always done a good job. And we still depend on th...
BOB NIELSEN

I want you to want me / I need you to need me / I'd love you to love me / I'm beggin' you to beg me.
RICK NIELSEN

We do Springville first because the Mapleton Junior High will be finished in fall 2006.
RICK NIELSEN

I like the biplanes, ... They don't have (cockpit) coverings. They're just out in the open.
ERIK NIELSEN

We had our opportunities, but we just didn't get the job done. Lindsay was outstanding, she didn't d...
CRAIG NIELSEN

This party kind of sums him up.
BILL NIELSEN

It's about brand building and getting these games in the hands of our 14- to 24-year-old male target...
BILL NIELSEN

We're excited to partner with the Big Ten Conference. We're thrilled to support women's athletics an...
BILL NIELSEN

We still think it's a great event and a great sport. Its recognition with the public keeps getting b...
BILL NIELSEN

It's been an excellent relationship for us. Their events are doing very well for us. When you go to ...
BILL NIELSEN

It stuck out. And you could squish on it. I was worried it would go further. It was just an annoyanc...
STEVE NIELSEN

We're sleeping in a hammock with tubes of mosquito netting. It's too hot, too wet and too full of cr...
HOWIE NIELSEN

If networked science is to reach its potential, scientists will have to embrace and reward the open ...
MICHAEL NIELSEN

I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup a...
BRIGITTE NIELSEN

I know I will be breaking a taboo. But I'm sure that it will provoke a new discussion. It's ...
BRIGITTE NIELSEN

TrustE icons, ... are useless. No one understands what they mean.
JAKOB NIELSEN

It's just teak everywhere,
JOHN NIELSEN

People all over the world are experiencing unprecedented levels of empowerment.
JAKOB NIELSEN

We fed cattle for a long time. Dad has a good eye for sorting cattle. I was always proud of him. We ...
DEAN NIELSEN

It seemed like the feed truck always broke down on Saturday.
DEAN NIELSEN

The question is, do the voters prefer a Democrat or a warmed-over Republican?
DEAN NIELSEN

The valuation for this stock and optimism is based on expectations for success in online gaming. But...
DENNIS NIELSEN

This is a major new revenue stream that has helped support the stock at current levels.
DENNIS NIELSEN

The persistency of earnings and revenue growth is what attracts investors.
DENNIS NIELSEN

She had real good placement with her ball, and we played good defense behind her.
CRAIG NIELSEN

Both films are real hard sells,
CONNIE NIELSEN

I've actually had a meeting and I've made it clear I would be interested in returning, but I have no...
CONNIE NIELSEN

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order.
CONNIE NIELSEN

My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than ...
BRIGITTE NIELSEN

I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on th...
CONNIE NIELSEN

But they dressed the same as they do here.
DAVID NIELSEN

The records don't say. Usually, when a farmer found a worm or a bug, he squished it with his fingers...
DAVID NIELSEN

It was hung in 'tobacco houses' for six to eight weeks. The term 'tobacco barn' came later.
DAVID NIELSEN

They didn't have pesticides in the 18th century.
DAVID NIELSEN

But everything was done by hand in the 18th century.
DAVID NIELSEN

When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter ...
BRIGITTE NIELSEN

We are exiles in Time's abyss, strangers now in the Promised Land.
D.B. NIELSEN

The rhetoric was not there in the way it has been in the past, but we're still looking at a hike in ...
ERIK NIELSEN

They were touring this year with a clarinetist, so I sent it to them, ... They agreed to do it.
ERIK NIELSEN

I actually sent them the piece, which they considered last year but didn't have enough time (to rehe...
ERIK NIELSEN

It was a fun experience and it went quite well,
ERIK NIELSEN

I waited and waited for a year and a half for them to announce who won, ... Jim Jeffords' office had...
ERIK NIELSEN

I like the Army (planes) best, ... They're cool.
ERIK NIELSEN

That's a pretty good basketball team.
ERIC NIELSEN

Before, once it has been aired, it's gone, and it doesn't really contribute to our knowledge space.
JAKOB NIELSEN

Investors want to understand what a company does, ... Tech companies seem incapable of explaining th...
JAKOB NIELSEN

[First, most rely too much on unnecessarily complex charts. With professional investors using their ...
JAKOB NIELSEN

If your users have many questions, it's a failure of your primary site design. It becomes not so muc...
JAKOB NIELSEN

You don't just want to just shoot them off into e-mail land.
JAKOB NIELSEN

People give up if the item is not found where it's expected to be,
JAKOB NIELSEN

Animation is used as a blunt weapon,
JAKOB NIELSEN

The Internet is about usability, ... The computer industry has been able to ship difficult-to-use pr...
JAKOB NIELSEN

People pay horribly little attention to their intranets, ... People used to think intranets were whe...
JAKOB NIELSEN

Okay, even if we disagree on that point, we still need to keep living our lives, don't we?...
SUSIN NIELSEN

I'm a birder. I've been using that as an excuse to go wandering around the world. I stand in the for...
HOWIE NIELSEN

I'm trying to get away.
HOWIE NIELSEN

We came back here to raise a baby.
HOWIE NIELSEN

Southeast Asia is changing so rapidly culturally and environmentally. Southeast Asia is just being c...
HOWIE NIELSEN

I myself don't think she has anything surprising to say, but I'm not working on the strategy for eit...
MARK NIELSEN

If Tom plays well, he's going to win. You'd hate to blow a lead like that. That's for sure.
LONNIE NIELSEN

Bad way to finish, but I'll try to remember the first 17 holes.
LONNIE NIELSEN

I think there's a real bond among us club pros or amateurs who come out and play against people we'v...
LONNIE NIELSEN

It's a dream come true for somebody like me, from where I was coming from.
LONNIE NIELSEN

I was just so far out of my element out there.
LONNIE NIELSEN

There's a little bond among us club pros, or longtime amateurs. To get a chance to play against big-...
LONNIE NIELSEN

We're definitely not being pushed or thrown out of this one. We're moving out because it takes more ...
KAI NIELSEN

We've haven't heard or felt anything at all; absolutely nothing.
KAI NIELSEN

It is hard to say how much we are liable to pay.
KAI NIELSEN

My interest in the education of our students and my previous work all goes together.
JULIE NIELSEN

Making sure curriculum is researched based to ensure it isn't a fad is very important when working t...
JULIE NIELSEN

My children are old enough that I have more time. It is time to step up.
JULIE NIELSEN

It was a really, really heavy and intense experience for all of us.
JOSH NIELSEN

I remember hearing one of our songs on (the BV station) while I was driving and being really thrown ...
JOSH NIELSEN

We've written some songs that could be played on country stations, even though we don't consider the...
JOSH NIELSEN

I grew up listening to a lot of classic rock, everything from the Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin to ...
JOSH NIELSEN

They have a good organization. They don't have corruption issues. We hire, we train well, so whoever...
JEFF NIELSEN

There is some very impressive individuals, but it's a huge change in tradition. You've got the minds...
JEFF NIELSEN

You are making a change, but you've got more than 300 people making a change too, so you have to mak...
JEFF NIELSEN

It's a good feeling, you are taking over a big and strong agency. It's a big city, and a big job.
JEFF NIELSEN

Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
LESLIE JONES

Growing up in Britain, Michael Caine has always been such an icon. Chatting with him, I know I came ...
ROSE LESLIE

I just know that for my honeymoon, I'm not going to go to a cabin in the woods.
ROSE LESLIE

When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spen...
LESLIE MANN

I've perfected the art of busting on people. That's how comedians show each other love.
LESLIE JONES

A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.
LESLIE DEWAN

I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate ...
LESLIE BIBB

The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular du...
LESLIE JAMISON

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rat...
LESLIE FIEDLER

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would yo...
LESLIE CARON

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can rend...
LESLIE LAMPORT

The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which k...
LESLIE WEATHERHEAD

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more ...
LESLIE FIEDLER

Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to,...
LESLIE FIEDLER

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
LESLIE STEPHEN

Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the b...
LESLIE WEXNER

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana...
LESLIE MCINTYRE

No animal is so inexhaustable as an excited infant.
AMY LESLIE

The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exp...
LESLIE HOWARD

About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.
LESLIE CHARTERIS

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made...
LESLIE FIEDLER

I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like st...
LESLIE MOONVES

Nuclear power is a young technology - there's so much more to be discovered. That's what mak...
LESLIE DEWAN

It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.
SHANE LESLIE

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for ...
SHANE LESLIE

A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. ...
SHANE LESLIE

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
SHANE LESLIE

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets ...
LISA LESLIE

Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do...
LESLIE JAMISON

Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.
LESLIE MANN

Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be dec...
LESLIE MOONVES

It will be hard work. It's always hard work, and hard work from everybody within the team - tech...
DAVID LESLIE

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough...
LESLIE CARON

Sure, some news is bigger news than other news. War is bigger news than a girl having mixed feelings...
LESLIE JAMISON

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.
LESLIE CARON

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really be...
LESLIE FIEDLER

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to i...
LESLIE FIEDLER

As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to...
LESLIE MOONVES

Child actors don't have great track records.
LESLIE MANN

If you're like me and love chatting about your latest box set addiction, then Sky Box Sets Club ...
ROSE LESLIE

I would support a letter.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

This is about giving consumers better information so they can make better choices for themselves.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

You've had a year. I know people turn over and that those things happen. ... But I don't think we wa...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

We've got to start somewhere. I want to see something in place.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

There is a certain amount of coercion that is implied. My general reaction is (this is) a disturbing...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable...
LESLIE STEPHEN

Going into auditions, there is a wonderful butterfly feeling in your stomach - an equal balance of b...
ROSE LESLIE

When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most re...
LESLIE COCKBURN

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
LESLIE FIEDLER

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
LESLIE STEPHEN

Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, ...
LESLIE JAMISON

Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit...
LESLIE JONES

I do love archery in my day-to-day life because I find it very therapeutic, and I've trained eve...
ROSE LESLIE

Now that I know how to handle a bow and arrow, I find it very therapeutic. It is a brilliant way to ...
ROSE LESLIE

I take care of everybody. I'm either hugging you or making sure that you're not sick, becaus...
LESLIE JONES

What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a be...
LESLIE FIEDLER

For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.
LISA LESLIE

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the ...
LESLIE CHARTERIS

It is too soon to tell, but old, tired 'Survivor' last night beat 'X Factor.' We'...
LESLIE MOONVES

It is so inspirational, to see that in the world of Westeros, men are answering to women, and they a...
ROSE LESLIE

I personally have been drawn to female roles who are incredibly strong; females who are dominant and...
ROSE LESLIE

There are plenty of people who are willing to pay $2.6 million for 30 seconds on the Super Bowl and ...
LESLIE MOONVES

It's kind of ridiculous, but I hate creepy crawlers. Like centipedes. It's just the fact tha...
ROSE LESLIE

CBS is proud to have been the home of David Letterman since 1993. He is truly one of the great talen...
LESLIE MOONVES

With 'Honeymoon,' it was so intimate, and we literally shot it in something like 20, 24 days...
ROSE LESLIE

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rul...
LESLIE CHARTERIS

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of co...
LESLIE CHARTERIS

With 'Game of Thrones' you're not really dealing with anything that is based in reality....
ROSE LESLIE

All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You'...
LESLIE MANN

Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.
ROSE LESLIE

I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy.
LESLIE JONES

Whether [CDC is] acquiring the right companies or not, the strategy makes sense.
LESLIE AMENT

Aberdeen research revealed that a majority of enterprises cited customer data integration and qualit...
LESLIE AMENT

For low-priced, commodity-type products, automation is the most realistic venue as profit margins di...
LESLIE AMENT

Organizations would do well to build decision trees and develop workflow processes to handle probabl...
LESLIE AMENT

For low-priced, commodity-type products, automation is the most realistic venue as profit margins di...
LESLIE AMENT

There is more communication within smaller organizations.
LESLIE AMENT

Organizations have spent millions capturing, analyzing and applying customer intelligence with the g...
LESLIE AMENT

It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.

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