When they put out the sales brochure when we eventually went to series, they carefully rounded Spock's ears and made him look human so he wouldn't scare off potential advertisers.
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Harrison Ford was so cool when he h... LUCY LIU Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told s... RICKY GERVAIS It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if th... CYNTHIA KENYON When I made 'Eight Below,' they wanted me to shoot digital, and I didn't want to do it b... FRANK MARSHALL Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they're 15 they... CYNTHIA NIXON When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, ... DAVID FINCHER I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have t... DAN SAVAGE I love 'Troy.' I love Brad Pitt's character - when he went to Troy, he just ran over it.... FUTURE When one deals with stars, he is dealing with intelligent people. If they weren't intelligent, t... GEORGE CUKOR I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow... PAT CONROY I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies; they're so beautiful to look at. It's suc... JAMIE BELL I wanted to make a film that wouldn't just appeal to Formula One fans. That's what the great... ASIF KAPADIA If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising ... WILL ROGERS When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded... ELLEN BARKIN We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't sta... JOHN THAW When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn&... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wante... EDDIE CANTOR Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn&... BARRY WHITE I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place... RED ADAIR Some people don't like the 'comeback' because that suggests they went somewhere, which t... JOHN RALSTON SAUL Executives don't burn out and leave when they feel deep satisfaction. They don't create the ... SRIKUMAR RAO They say that women dress for other women, but I don't think that's entirely true. If we wan... RACHEL NICHOLS When I went to Hollywood, I had to work out in a gym. The idea was that I should look like Daniel Cr... ROGER MOORE We'll put the project out to bid and carefully examine the bids when they come in. CRAIG HAMILTON After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn't want to be the last player from Africa. After m... DIKEMBE MUTOMBO My dad's so likeable, you wouldn't feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever... JULIA SAWALHA Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you tak... JAMIE FOXX The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They... GARY SHEFFIELD In the past, when we've tried gene therapy, we haven't had tools that have allowed targeted ... JENNIFER DOUDNA If Indians were not largehearted, they wouldn't have made so much of progress and delivered grow... HARBHAJAN SINGH I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female character... OPHELIA LOVIBOND My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because h... STEVEN SPIELBERG What I can say that's different in American television... in Britain, they wouldn't cancel s... JOHN BARROWMAN Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're cry... EVAN DAVIS They will return him to the same orphanage, ... and when he is 16, they will put him out on the stre... GEORGE ROTHBART It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if... MICHAEL JACKSON His name is 'Mr. Spock.' And the first view of him can be almost frightening - a face so hea... GENE RODDENBERRY They made it tough on us. When we collapsed on Gamble on the inside, No. 24 (Johnson) would hit thos... ALFRED ARTIS I really didn't want to rap; I was just a regular kid. My friend - his name is William Aston - w... LIL UZI VERT When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went ... TOMMY CHONG Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let th... FRANK ROBINSON Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely ... LAURA ARRILLAGA-ANDREESSEN We're so lucky where we live, but we're so out of touch. Everyone's mindset is made to f... SONNY BILL WILLIAMS The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or mo... ETHEL WATERS I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically. STEVEN WRIGHT When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb... RACHEL ZOE When I went to New York to try and make it, I never thought it wouldn't happen. CAROL BURNETT I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them. YOHAN BLAKE My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My... CHUCK D He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul. MICKEY RIVERS That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would p... MIKE KRZYZEWSKI When you're 20 or 30, looking ahead, you see these benchmarks for relationships, career, ambitio... TRACEY EMIN When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history... ALAN GREENSPAN It's funny: when you make a film, you always look back, and there are always crucial decisions t... PAUL GREENGRASS I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific. STEVEN WRIGHT When you act, you're being asked to pretend in a very rigid, controlled environment. It's ve... PATTON OSWALT My mom made me watch 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was about 7 years old. When I was... BILLIE LOURD It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't kn... RUE MCCLANAHAN These people all thought they knew him. They believed he was a whore, and sometimes he thought he wa... BEVERLY L. ANDERSON My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn't want to accept this for 30 years, so we put hi... JAMES D. WATSON Cyclists are insane. You're going through the Alps, climbing up mountains. There's this circ... STEPHEN FREARS A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to;... WALTER KIRN First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out rea... JACK L. CHALKER One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid... TOMMY LASORDA It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great. RACHEL PLATTEN We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leader... MALCOLM GLADWELL As the CG in motion capture made it look realistic, it put more of an onus on the game makers to mak... DAVID S. GOYER The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female... TAMRON HALL I haven't written a brochure yet. It's killing me. I know I have a brochure or pamphlet in m... ALAN ZWEIBEL We have won two or three games this year because we put Justin at the post and rotated him to the ou... HERBERT GREENE If you were ever a ballerina, you know the pain: just to be able to look like it's all so light,... MICHELLE YEOH If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had... BRYAN ROBSON As you know, I'm androgynous. I can wear a jacket that most guys wouldn't put on. But you ma... STEVEN TYLER I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in t... 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They have a great foot... GENE ALLEN When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gav... GENE KRUPA Discerning the will of God is a very tricky thing, partly because, you know, the little voice in my ... GENE ROBINSON Expanded cinema isn't a movie at all: like life it's a process of becoming. GENE YOUNGBLOOD When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important t... GENE SIMMONS Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself. GENE SIMMONS Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator. GENE TIERNEY A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing su... GENE WILDER My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunch... GENE HACKMAN Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools. GENE BROWN We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help u... GENE MCSWEENEY It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm... GENE HACKMAN Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your for... GENE FOWLER An editor should have a pimp for a brother, so he'd have someone to look up to. GENE FOWLER Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It... GENE SIMMONS We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had ... GENE WEEN Her books were put down by most critics but readers would not put down her books. GENE SHALIT I dig the fair atmosphere. Give me a sausage with onions! I really dig the fair. It's great. GENE JOHNSON There is no question in the world that educating a girl is good for her country and good for her. Th... GENE SPERLING I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection ... GENE ROBINSON Frankly, whatever assistance people get from FEMA will not have a lot of extras built into it, so th... GENE GREEN I've worked with Fred Upton, and I think we've got a lot of common agreement on energy produ... GENE GREEN No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band... GENE SIMMONS Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving peop... GENE SIMMONS Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat. GENE SIMMONS