Make My Quotes

#1. As an actress, I'm constantly watching different shows and films and am always gathering information and inspiration for characters and techniques to make my performances the best they can be.

Rachel G. Fox

#2. What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.

Barkhad Abdi

#3. I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a lot for me. You know, to me, music is important, it's the way I make my living and I like it and I enjoy playing. But it's not the most important thing in my life - that's my family.

Joe Pass

#4. Both of my parents are teachers. One is in the Waldorf school system in Louisville, Ky., and the other runs a music school. I grew up with loving, supportive, encouraging parents that let me make my own world, and I wish that for every single child.

Madi Diaz

#5. I was always a very quirky kid. I remember very early like fourth or fifth grade doing pratfalls to make my friends laugh, like falling on the ground on the playground and doing like bits and characters.

Busy Philipps

#6. My normal weight category is 48 kg. So for the 51 kg. category, I had to depend on lots of food and drinks before going in for the weigh-in. But that does not make my strength, my muscles. It's a little bit different. If there's a 48 kg. category, it's a perfect fit for me.

Mary Kom

#7. I was a total floral hippie as a child so when I finally could make my own choices, I've been living in different black suit jackets and been really drawn to masculine clothes.

Lykke Li

#8. I have known tragedy, extreme physical difficulty, and the frustration of just trying to make my life "work." I was in an abyss so deep that I wondered if I could ever get out of it.

Karen Henson Jones

#9. I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.

Pamela Stephenson

#10. I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.

Kiefer Sutherland

#11. How dare you make my life a felony.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#12. I don't know if I can trust again. How do I make my heart and mind work together? My heart wants to leap while my brain is saying run for my life.

A.M. Willard

#13. I never really made much money playing music. It's because I've never really worked with a producer who could make my music sound, I guess, like how the public wants it to sound.

Mark Linkous

#14. I'm a big girl. I can make my own decisions about my dance partners."
He raised his arms in defense. "All I'm saying is that the guy let you trip and fall. I worry about you dancing in someone else's arms.

Ada Adams

#15. I will never make my family perfect, but I will make it better everyday.

Wes Fesler

#16. Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.

Michael Haneke

#17. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.

Ray Charles

#18. That wasn't my future I destroyed,' she assured herself. 'I make my own future.

Rick Riordan

#19. Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.

Suzanne Collins

#20. And now, I have another good reason to speed up my baby narratives to make my author's profile appear more respectable.

Armineonila M.

#21. I know I have a vagina, but that doesn't negate the fact that I have a brain and a spine, so I can make my own decisions about my life and deal with the consequences. I'm also not real big on dudes talking about my shit behind my back.

Kristen Ashley

#22. If I wanted, I could choose to make my life a place that Brian could step into. He didn't have any room to move, but ...

Mary Ann Rivers

#23. It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.

Ethan Hawke

#24. I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

Charlie Sheen

#25. What in the hell happened to your eye?" I laugh and roll off the bed, out of harm's way. "You happened." I make my way toward the window. "I need to clear my head. I'm gonna go for a run. Wanna come?" Six crinkles up her nose. "Yeah ... no. You have fun with that.

Colleen Hoover

#26. You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.

Dannel Malloy

#27. Mom and dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in. But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.

Bill Watterson

#28. I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.

Clive Sinclair

#29. O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,
And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

Alexander Pope

#30. So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

Stanley Tucci

#31. I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.

Sandra Cisneros

#32. If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

#33. The parental units take no notice of me as I make my leave. They are too busy having a discussion.

Cecil Castellucci

#34. I don't like to make my life like a book.

Marc Newson

#35. Each day after class lets out,each morning before it begins, i sit at the school piano and make my hands work. in spite of the pain, in spite of the stiffness and scars. i make my hands play piano.i have practiced my best piece over and over till my arms throb.

Karen Hesse

#36. Not yet. I don't know what I'm so happy about. But it doesn't matter whether Ma agrees or not. I can make my own decisions. I'm a person, the same as the rest of you.

Ba Jin

#37. I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.

Parker Posey

#38. Fee, fie, foe, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread." Ballimore shook her head. "Nonsense, dear. It's just Princess Cimorene and the King of the Enchanted Forest." "And neither of us is English," Cimorene added. The

Patricia C. Wrede

#39. Why be alone when we can be together baby
You can make my life worthwhile
And I can make you start to smile

Mr. Big

#40. I was a well-educated young lady from Boston with a thirst for bohemian counterculture and no clear plan. But I had no idea what to do with all my pent-up longing for adventure, or how to make my eagerness to take risks productive.

Piper Kerman

#41. I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

Fred Durst

#42. I don't make my music for just me or a few people. Hopefully everybody that makes music wants to be embraced by the people they tryna make it for, you know what I'm saying. It's just a matter of time before everybody gets the message that I'm tryna send out.

Bun B.

#43. Make my happiness - I will make yours. God pardon me!" he subjoined ere long; "and man meddle not with me: I have her and will hold her.

Charlotte Bronte

#44. I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40.

Ridley Scott

#45. I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step for me.

El-P

#46. Everyone is Annawadi talks like this- oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, "What a navigator I am!" And then the wind blows you east. -ABDUL'S FATHER, KARAM HUSAIN

Katherine Boo

#47. I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem - because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water.

Rashid Johnson

#48. I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

John Kricfalusi

#49. When I was really young, my mum used to make my clothes - I hated that. I liked the way boys dressed - I still do. I wanted to wear what they wore.

Alison Mosshart

#50. I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.

Bat For Lashes

#51. Supernatural healing was a handy trick for an absentminded vampire, although it would make my enemies harder to kill. Tit for tat, I guess.

Chloe Neill

#52. I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

French Montana

#53. My life is up to me to define. I needed to make my own dreams come true.

Kaira Rouda

#54. He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#55. I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot - I want to start my own dynasty eventually.

Big Sean

#56. And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.

Brian Michael Bendis

#57. I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experience of me, everyone's interaction with me, everyone's discussion, conversation, relationship with me - [to be] an event within which they get to see who they are. I would make of my life a work of art.

John Denver

#58. I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to give up crisps, or make my boobs shrink for that matter. Alas, I will never fit a size zero.

Marina And The Diamonds

#59. Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.

Jim Elliot

#60. I study a lot of the greats; I study the current people out now and what people are listening to now. I don't shun anything away; I just check it all out and make my own judgment.

Ledisi

#61. When I was a school kid I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing, I would make my own comics about my teddy bear whose name happened to be Ted.

Marcel Dzama

#62. When I was a kid, I wanted to make my parents happy. I'd always say to them, "What do you want me to do? Do sports? Be rich? Be funny?" My mother would say, "Whatever we want from you, you already gave us - we wanted you to be alive, and you made it."

Etgar Keret

#63. While I used to make my living principally as a record producer, as time went on, I had to depend more and more on my live performances because of the evolution of the record industry, which has de-emphasized what made it possible to make a living.

Todd Rundgren

#64. I really hated being the Norwegian girl in every single conversation in Australia, so I tried to make my Norwegian-ness invisible, speaking like whoever was around me.

Jenny Hval

#65. You hear people say: "One day, when I'm in a good position I can make my passion project." I've seen a lot of people get into that position and not make it.

Judd Apatow

#66. Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me.

Jo Brand

#67. You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.

Rumi

#68. I want to make my own movie.

Bam Margera

#69. Whatever, I make my own rules!

Kelly Oram

#70. I make my living doing freelance directing for North American television shot in Toronto, series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, and so forth.

Atom Egoyan

#71. I love radio, but it's a very limited thing today. Everything has to be edited down to 3:59, and too bad if I didn't make my statement in three minutes and 59 seconds. Everybody's song has to make its point so quickly.

Anita Baker

#72. When I was young, I would make my parents breakfast in bed on Saturday mornings.

Tom Douglas

#73. My job as a minister is not only to make heaven my home, but to make my home on earth sheer heaven.

Joseph Losey

#74. Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Henry David Thoreau

#75. I never grew up thinking I wanted to be a quote-unquote star or anything. My thing was just feeling blessed to be able to make my living acting.

Ving Rhames

#76. But I decided that the popularity of something holds no value when I make my choices. I make decisions for me.

Cassie Mae

#77. After a long day of trying, to make my songs pay, making love all day against the wall in the hallway.

Tupac Shakur

#78. Nothing would make my kids happier than to do another movie.

Matthew Lillard

#79. I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

Imelda May

#80. I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

Napoleon Bonaparte

#81. I studied photography at Bard, but I just felt tired of it. Someone asked me to be in a video but didn't want to be in it, so they told me to make my own, and that seemed more fun to me.

Gia Coppola

#82. I'm the man of the house, the husband-fuck it- I'm the king, and I had to make my queen happy.

Skyla Madi

#83. Being with my wife and children in Kauai, seeing old friends there, being on the beach, painting, paddleboarding. Sitting under a Kauai moon with a bonfire going, buddies around. Those are the things that kind of make my world turn.

Pierce Brosnan

#84. That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.

Aaron Rodgers

#85. I'm going to do anything and everything, remove every boulder, every hurdle and every problem out of my way to make my dreams come true.

Grant Cardone

#86. Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold.

George Villiers

#87. In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.

Stephen Moyer

#88. So I delegate a lot and I make my family come first, my husband and our kids.

Kelly Preston

#89. Whenever I made money I invested in myself ... I bought whatever I needed to make my career better. I never really spent money on other stuff, like buying expensive cars.

Tiesto

#90. There is only one more thing for me to say: Please help make my forecast wrong. Together we could create a much better world.

Jorgen Randers

#91. I'm lucky that I'm inside the fashion industry and see clothes from a different perspective than the traditional consumer. Being able to curate, edit, and style product to make my own look is a privilege, but something I think men are becoming more aware of how to do.

Simon Spurr

#92. I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

Larry Wall

#93. I'm an adrenaline junkie. I love climbing crazy trees or cliffs, which doesn't make my mom very happy.

Stephen Colletti

#94. I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody.

Dee Snider

#95. Something Mama liked to say: I love Jesus, but some of his representatives sure make my ass tired.

Edward Kelsey Moore

#96. Even when I was dizzy with vodka, that smile never failed to make my heart speed up.

Richelle Mead

#97. At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now I feel like they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory.

Jessica Simpson

#98. Knowing that people make my songs their own is what keeps me going.

Alanis Morissette

#99. There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#100. I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

Kate Winslet