Really Great Quotes

#1. Most of my career is spent in a meeting ... dressed sharply, looking really great; negotiating over a table, strategizing or coming up with new marketing plans or new ideas. And that makes me really, really happy.

Tyra Banks

#2. What characterizes a really great thinker is that they misrecognize the basic dimension of their own breakthrough.

Slavoj Zizek

#3. We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.

James Woods

#4. Music is like a really sacred, awesome thing. That first 45 minutes to two hours that you're on stage spending time with music every night is always really great.

Tift Merritt

#5. Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

John Green

#6. Getting married and becoming the father of young children has taught me that I am a narcissist. The good news is that I am a really great, really important, and really special narcissist.

Jim Gaffigan

#7. I think summer has become a venue for TV like it hasn't been in years past, especially on Sunday nights. I know that when I'm winding down at the end of the weekend, just a really great TV show or movie is exactly what the doctor ordered.

Anna Wood

#8. I know how to play comedy when it's needed. So even when it's really not there, my facial expressions are really great. I have a lot of facial expressions in my face, you know.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

#9. I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.' ... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.

Iggy Pop

#10. I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

Joanna Newsom

#11. You've probably missed out something really great but you haven't let that drive you insane but always remember to be yourself.

Auliq Ice

#12. We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

Adam D'Angelo

#13. I've read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, 'Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.' I don't want to be part of that.

Matthew McConaughey

#14. When I was a teenager, for the most part, I had a really great, easy relationship with my mom, but there are those occasional mom/daughter things that are unavoidable. That's what makes it more upsetting and more true to life. We have great moments, and then we have terrible moments as well.

Mae Whitman

#15. Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

Leo Burnett

#16. To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.

Katey Sagal

#17. A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.

Alan Alda

#18. I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state, I was really blessed compared to a lot of the rest of the world. I had a really great chance to follow my dreams and have them actually come true.

AnnaLynne McCord

#19. I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen.

Abbi Jacobson

#20. People who get lucky, also tend to be really great looking, which is luck on some level, but it is also just the fact of the matter.

Chris Gethard

#21. Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.

Cameron Russell

#22. It's funny because when I first met with Carmen, she said, "Have you ever thought about doing TV?" And I was like, "No, not really, but I'd audition for TV." And she said, "That's where the roles are for women now. That's where you can go and get a really great part."

Eve Hewson

#23. The sci-fi genre just happens to have a lot of really great characters for women.

Jewel Staite

#24. No really great man ever thought himself so.

William Hazlitt

#25. We are meeting with Sony, and we have a couple of other labels that suddenly have interest and that's really great because none of them have actually heard our stuff.

Shane West

#26. So far, and today, everything felt really great. Now I am good to get on the plane and fly to Australia.

Kim Clijsters

#27. Maybe that's partly why I'm an actor, I'm a fairly empathetic, emotional person, so I get very, very involved when it's really, really great when I'm watching - so it takes me a second to click back into reality again.

Gabriel Mann

#28. Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day.

Meg Cabot

#29. There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.

Bill Viola

#30. A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

William Hazlitt

#31. The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

James A. Michener

#32. Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.

Saint Francis De Sales

#33. If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.

Theodore Roosevelt

#34. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care & reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.

Bill Gates

#35. I have two really great best friends that are the only people I hang out with. I keep a close circle.

Kylie Jenner

#36. I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

Sally Field

#37. A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

Drew Houston

#38. I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

Emmanuelle Beart

#39. I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunity for a lot more. I joined a band and so on. We would do concerts at school, and I would play cover tunes and thought, 'This is really great.'

Teddy Thompson

#40. I've had the opportunity to work on some really great indie features. One of them being 'Little Savages,' which is a super fun family film.

Katherine McNamara

#41. This is the first time I've been in a WTA final so it's really great to make it here in Auckland. I'm so tired I can't stand on my feet any more. Today the key was to run and run and finally I put a lot of pressure on her and she started to miss on the big points.

Marion Bartoli

#42. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

Oscar Wilde

#43. I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.

Tom Hanks

#44. That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

Matt Lauria

#45. I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I've heard, are not like this. But I want a career that has many disciplines and many options.

Thomas Horn

#46. I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.

Scoot McNairy

#47. Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.

Laura Lang

#48. Songwriting is actually a really great outlet. I kind of recommend it. You get to sum up whatever is going on in your life in a song, then perform it really passionately.

Bridgit Mendler

#49. I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#50. It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

Stephen Chbosky

#51. In my experience, the really great writers enjoy the editorial process.

Mary Norris

#52. I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.

Vanessa Bayer

#53. I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take a chance to read something if it's cheaper - sometimes books on the Kindle are $6. A hardback book is $25. For $25, it better be a really great book. Or you're going to be mad.

Caroline Leavitt

#54. When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.

Daniella Alonso

#55. I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

John Cusack

#56. I find it not hard to make friends, but it's definitely different when I go somewhere like summer camp and everyone already knows that I'm in 'Hunger Games' ... My life is still pretty normal, and I still have some really great friends.

Willow Shields

#57. Sometimes, when something really great happens to me, I like to wait two weeks before I tell anyone about it, because I like to use the word 'fortnight'.

Demetri Martin

#58. At some point you're like, gosh, this rehab is never going to end, and then all of a sudden I'm full strength and I'm about to go to my first competition. So I feel really great.

Kerri Walsh

#59. All those girls who were mean to me[in high school], I pay them back by going through the drive-through window and asking for my burger. That feels really great.

Jenny McCarthy

#60. Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

Robin Williams

#61. You should be accumulating really great relationships throughout your career.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#62. There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.

Ted Sarandos

#63. Black vintners in this country make some really great wines. Explore a wine list and you will find at least one of our wines in the best restaurants. Buy a bottle for your table, and let management know you appreciate them including a Black winemaker in their stock.

Andre Hueston Mack

#64. Classical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be.

Lucia Micarelli

#65. No job is beneath you.
You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.

Randy Pausch

#66. I used to think that one day I should write a really great novel, but I've long ceased even to hope for that. All I want people to say is that I do my best. I do work. I never let anything slipshod get past me. I think I can tell a good story and I can create characters that ring true.

W. Somerset Maugham

#67. You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.

Tobey Maguire

#68. I played a little bit of 'City of Heroes' - they have a really great character generation system. I was pretty impressed with that. I played 'World of Warcraft' with my kids. That's a lot of fun.

Jim Lee

#69. All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture.

Chris Martin

#70. I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.

Chris Ware

#71. Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

Mark Twain

#72. I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.

Abigail Breslin

#73. If we do a really great good job on new vaccines and healthcare, we can lower the world population by 10 to 15%.

Robin Sacredfire

#74. For years I used to try to straighten my hair, but I've reached a stage where I think, 'I've got red curly hair, and it's actually really great.'

Bonnie Langford

#75. My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

Alan Cumming

#76. It's really great to be back in front of an audience again.

James Patterson

#77. Dance music cannot compete with a really great rock n' roll song. There ain't no DJ that's gonna play something that can take 'Mr Brightside' or 'Don't Look Back In Anger.'

Brandon Flowers

#78. I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

Lance Henriksen

#79. When I was in college, at Wheaton-I inadvertently got cast in a play, and I had a really great time doing it. I didnt know I had any knack for it, but I really enjoyed myself. It was a complete surprise.

Catherine Keener

#80. Resveratrol is fascinating stuff. One of the best sources of information about it is the Immortality Institute. They have a forum where some people are in the 500 Club, as they call it. They've been taking 500 milligrams for years. It's a really great source of data.

Timothy Ferriss

#81. It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

Meg Ryan

#82. I'm really great with weapons: I did a lot of bo and staff training for 'Immortals.' I love knives. I'm a pretty good shot. But I love hand-to-hand combat.

Kellan Lutz

#83. You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

Larry Page

#84. Oh, and I can do something really great with my tongue and a cherry stem.

J.R. Ward

#85. It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.

David Plotz

#86. I used to go out with someone who was a really great diver, and we used to go to all the great dive spots all over the globe - although I would spend most of my time crying because I was often too scared to go into the water. But once I was in the water, I loved it.

Mariella Frostrup

#87. 'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.

Joel Kinnaman

#88. I've done a lot of independent travelling, which hasn't been the best career choice, but it's been a really great life choice.

Nikki Reed

#89. You always try and make a film that is a letter that will be read and we are so glad that it is being read by the right people in the right place and is inspiring change. It is also gratifying that the survivors are finding it healing and transformative. That's been really great.

Amy Ziering

#90. I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person.

Catherine Bell

#91. I simply find it boring to walk around like everybody else. I find it really great to stand out and do something special.

Bill Kaulitz

#92. I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits,' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge.

Elisha Cuthbert

#93. It was fantastic returning to 'Being Human'. When I got cast in the role, at first I just thought it was for one episode, and the fans were really great about it, and it was really nice having that reaction.

Ellie Kendrick

#94. Winnipeg has the largest collection of Inuit art in the world, I believe. They can be quite simple in a great way and often have sparse backgrounds and isolated characters. They often have a really great look to them.

Marcel Dzama

#95. For once in my career, I won't have to hold anybody's hand and they won't have to hold mine. I'm surrounded by veterans. We had a great battle last Thursday at HealthPoint. It was something I never had before - three, four, really great players all in one pickup game.

Shaquille O'Neal

#96. We just decided to pick the date 'The Matrix' opened in most of the world. At the end of the day, it worked out really great because the world seems to have got to a place where I think the movie is even more relevant now than it was several months ago.

Joel Silver

#97. It's always been a lot of fun for me, just to be in films that people see and they connect to, big or small. The big ones tend to reach a wider audience, so it's exciting to feel like you've got fans in countries, all over the world, who are watching what you're doing. That's really great!

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#98. You could be a really great and fabulous person, but if your method of communication with a woman doesn't trigger her physical attraction by "pushing the right buttons," you will only ever be "just a friend" in her eyes.

Sahara Sanders

#99. I feel like I've gotten so lucky and gotten to do such cool things with such cool folks. It's really great. You definitely want that momentum to keep going, for sure.

David Costabile

#100. I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things. And that felt like a muscle I hadn't exercised in a really long time.

Emma Stone