Top 100 They Ask Me Quotes

#1. My children, every time they ask me for something, I tell them to round their old stuff up.

Shaquille O'Neal

They Ask Me Quotes #18029
#2. Generally, when I tell people I'm a painter, they ask me if I have a card: 'Yes, we'd like this room in this color.' I still might get cards that say 'Mark Bradford. Painter.'

Mark Bradford

They Ask Me Quotes #48290
#3. The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

Sparky Anderson

They Ask Me Quotes #56945
#4. Sometimes I have young comics that ask me, "What should I do when I meet an agent or a manager and they ask me stuff?" And I say, "Well, they always usually ask, 'Where do you see yourself in five years, 10 years, 15 years?' And it's good to have an answer for that."

Baron Vaughn

They Ask Me Quotes #90040
#5. They ask me how Im doing. I say better than I deserve

LeCrae

They Ask Me Quotes #105942
#6. I have gotten one question repeatedly from young men. These are guys who liked the book, but they are honestly confused. They ask me why Melinda was so upset about being raped.

Laurie Halse Anderson

They Ask Me Quotes #155073
#7. I like the punch beggers and panhandlers when they ask me for change. I feel like I am doing my part to clean up the streets.

Zach Braff

They Ask Me Quotes #157712
#8. I've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: 'You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?' I tell them I wouldn't do it unless I understood and had an interest.

Anna Kournikova

They Ask Me Quotes #171324
#9. And if the day I die they ask me just how heaven was, I'll be glad I spent it with you.

Brian Logan Dales

They Ask Me Quotes #172194
#10. 'Newhart' ran the longest, and it was great to have a regular role, but I run into a lot of film fans, and they ask me about 'Blade Runner.' I was grateful to be a part of that.

William Sanderson

They Ask Me Quotes #209167
#11. I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

Brenda Fassie

They Ask Me Quotes #275268
#12. I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

Shirley Maclaine

They Ask Me Quotes #279632
#13. I don't really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get it out of the way.

RJ Mitte

They Ask Me Quotes #337783
#14. They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

Ron Paul

They Ask Me Quotes #389078
#15. When people see me on TV, they become very happy because they don't have to interact with me. When they start interacting with me, they ask me questions like I'm a baby or treat me like I'm a baby and hold me like I'm a baby, and that's what they do wrong, really.

Jyoti Amge

They Ask Me Quotes #430421
#16. So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

Calista Flockhart

They Ask Me Quotes #457039
#17. Most women, when they ask me for beauty tips aren't really prepared for my answer, which is, there is no magic beauty wand that can transform you and make you beautiful. It takes practice and what you see on Rupaul's Drag Race is years and years of practice.

RuPaul

They Ask Me Quotes #486068
#18. I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular?

Michael Nyman

They Ask Me Quotes #522030
#19. When they ask me why I jumped off the roof of my brother's apartment building, I will tell them it was because I wanted the sky to mourn me.

And because I wanted to know what it feels like to hit something so hard it shatters me into bits that they can never sew back together.

Kady Hunt

They Ask Me Quotes #659348
#20. I ask people what piece they are on the chessboard. And some people say 'I'm the king' or 'I'm the knight.' And then they ask me what piece I am, and I say, 'I'm no piece. I take the position of God.'

RZA

They Ask Me Quotes #677027
#21. I do sometimes lecture people about what they're eating, but that's only if they ask me.

Woody Harrelson

They Ask Me Quotes #703296
#22. Every year, they ask me to play the Grammys.

Prince

They Ask Me Quotes #711411
#23. Men go out with me, we break up and then they get married. And later they call me to thank me for teaching them what love is. That I tought them to care and respect women.
( ... )
I wanna kill them! Why didn't they ask me to marry them? I would've said no, but at least they could have asked.

Julie Delpy

They Ask Me Quotes #765487
#24. Many seek and never see,
anyone can tell them why.
O they weep and O they cry
and never take until they try
unless they try it in their sleep
and never some until they die.
I ask many, they ask me.
This is a great mystery.

Allen Ginsberg

They Ask Me Quotes #805751
#25. I don't believe I'll be in the new 'Arrested Development' unless they ask me, in which case, okay! That's how easy I am to get.

Simon Helberg

They Ask Me Quotes #823517
#26. I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.

Wendi Deng Murdoch

They Ask Me Quotes #828337
#27. They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.

Joe Paterno

They Ask Me Quotes #899166
#28. The kids all literally think I'm Spider-Man, and they ask me how I shoot my webs. It's flattering and crazy, but it's Spider-Man they're in awe of, not Jake Epstein.

Jake Epstein

They Ask Me Quotes #911936
#29. People ask me in Europe, when they do interviews ... they ask me, 'Well, how does it feel to be a cook in a country that doesn't know how to eat?' It always touches a nerve, because Europe and the world think that America is no more than bad hot dogs and bad burgers.

Jose Andres

They Ask Me Quotes #931948
#30. They ask me what the biggest thing I have going on right now is, and I usually say, "I think this interview?" And then they don't get that it's a joke. So then I say, Yogi Bear 3D. That's my default.

T. J. Miller

They Ask Me Quotes #960824
#31. I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.'

Henry Rollins

They Ask Me Quotes #962991
#32. They ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

Lucille Clifton

They Ask Me Quotes #1015772
#33. Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

Mark Haddon

They Ask Me Quotes #1120678
#34. I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things.

Lawrence Halprin

They Ask Me Quotes #1157627
#35. Yeah, you're right, it's not," he agreed. "For the record, though, I only tie girls up when they ask me to." His

J.M. Darhower

They Ask Me Quotes #1205173
#36. I always have a beard between jobs. I just let it grow until they pay me to shave it. People are quite surprised it's ginger. Sometimes they ask me if dye my hair and I always say 'Wow, no!' I'm 'trans-ginger.'

James McAvoy

They Ask Me Quotes #1313148
#37. Every now and then, they ask me to come in and improvise with Stanley Tucci for an afternoon. They fly me off to America, I improvise for an afternoon - it's not the hardest, most taxing job.

Toby Jones

They Ask Me Quotes #1401297
#38. There are always seasons to a career and perhaps always the grass is often greener, you're often looking at other people's careers going, "Damn, they get all the good roles. Why didn't I read that? Why didn't they ask me to do that?"

Jude Law

They Ask Me Quotes #1408067
#39. They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.

Talib Kweli

They Ask Me Quotes #1418741
#40. When they ask me to become president of the United States I'm going to say, Except for Washington D.C.

Len Deighton

They Ask Me Quotes #1424273
#41. When they ask me who's the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I'm going to say, you know, I don't know. Do you know? And then I'm going to say how's that going to create one job?

Herman Cain

They Ask Me Quotes #1482674
#42. When they ask me the meaning of time
I am speechless
and I choose to be friends with minutes and seconds, as I know, they are more familiar about time

Ys Sroyer

They Ask Me Quotes #1536228
#43. All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

Babe Ruth

They Ask Me Quotes #1560309
#44. I love to see new talent, new people beginning. It's a wonderful thing, and one wonders where their journey will take them. Sometimes they ask me for advice but it's very difficult to advise people. Everyone has their own destiny really.

Greg Lake

They Ask Me Quotes #1589479
#45. I tried eating vegetarian. I felt like a wimp going into a restaurant. "What do you want to eat sir? Broccoli?" Broccoli's a side dish, folks. Always was, always will be, OK! When they ask me what I want, I say: What do you think I want? This is America. I want a bowl of raw red meat right now.

Denis Leary

They Ask Me Quotes #1631224
#46. I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music ...

Grant Evans

They Ask Me Quotes #1776928
#47. Kids ask me questions. You'd think after doing this for four years, I would have heard every single question anyone could think of to ask, but no, every time, they surprise me, they ask me something I never thought of before.

Rick Riordan

They Ask Me Quotes #1866276
#48. When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.

Mandy Patinkin

They Ask Me Quotes #1713
#49. Sure. Waffles are fine. How come you didn't ask me what I wanted?" "I'm asking you now." "They're fine," Janine said again. Sighing, she turned back to the computer. I stuck my tongue out at her and ran downstairs. "Waffles are fine!" I told Mimi.

Ann M. Martin

They Ask Me Quotes #12552
#50. If you ask me about vocal technique, I don't know anything. I could never be a teacher. I just know what my teacher told me: 'Always sing with a full voice. When they tell you, less sound, more piano - no.'

Anna Netrebko

They Ask Me Quotes #38336
#51. People are starting to recognize me, and it can be hard because I'm a really nice person, and people will ask me uncomfortable questions like they know me, and I'm just like, 'Umm ... can I walk away now?'

Jessie Pavelka

They Ask Me Quotes #48585
#52. Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring the mind ... Never, when in danger, ask yourself, What will they do to me? Instead think, What can I do to prevent them?

David Gemmell

They Ask Me Quotes #55067
#53. I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.

Alison Krauss

They Ask Me Quotes #67678
#54. When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.

Nalo Hopkinson

They Ask Me Quotes #163540
#55. It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what's behind you
the shower curtain, the tile, the wallpaper, whatever's there.

Gary Lutz

They Ask Me Quotes #196017
#56. People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

Frank Gehry

They Ask Me Quotes #202276
#57. Look: Words did not frighten my father. They scared the shit out of me. I almost couldn't believe I'd worked up the guts to ask the question and not choke to death in the process. But words were the atoms in my father's universe, and he was their destroyer and their creator.

Andrew Smith

They Ask Me Quotes #246421
#58. People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.

Zaha Hadid

They Ask Me Quotes #249927
#59. Where did you get Ultima's name?" many ask me. "That was her name when she came to me," I answer. From that first fortuitous meeting I have trained myself to act as a dream catcher. I don't seek characters, they seem to come to me asking me to tell their stories.

Rudolfo Anaya

They Ask Me Quotes #284301
#60. I suspected that they hadn't relocated to the coldest place on Earth and then taken up disemboweling pigs because things were going well in Europe, but it had never occurred to me to ask for the story. I

Hope Jahren

They Ask Me Quotes #303451
#61. I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.

Gabrielle Zevin

They Ask Me Quotes #343595
#62. People ask me if I ever get sick of playing 'Daydream Believer' or whatever. But I don't look at it that way. Do they ask if Tony Bennett is tired of 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco?'

Davy Jones

They Ask Me Quotes #356961
#63. Actually, if you ask my really close friends, they would say that 'Honeymoon' is more me than anything else I've written.

Jason Robert Brown

They Ask Me Quotes #370558
#64. need and want that His Word has promised and believe you receive them when you ask for them. Then you will have whatever it is you need from God. Some people continually ask me why God won't heal them after they have had many people pray for them and have had no results. Very

Kenneth E. Hagin

They Ask Me Quotes #382812
#65. Men always think I'm too demanding... but all I ask is that they treat me like the goddess I am.

Kathy Shaskan

They Ask Me Quotes #403775
#66. I think people sometimes have a hard time placing me because I don't fit into a box. When they ask what I do at a cocktail party, I either say I'm a Renaissance woman or I'm a high-level madam. Lately I've been more comfortable saying I'm an artist, because that can cover a lot of different things.

Liz Goldwyn

They Ask Me Quotes #405206
#67. As a coach, I want players to challenge me, to question me and ask why we're doing a certain thing, so they feel that they're taking ownership.

Warren Gatland

They Ask Me Quotes #418414
#68. When aspiring writers ask me about how they should target their writing, I tell them to pay no attention to that kind of thing. It will restrict you. You will end up falling into stereotypes in an effort to tailor your work toward a perceived genre category.

Carrie Vaughn

They Ask Me Quotes #429578
#69. It was always a funny thing when someone would ask me my name and I would say "Brooklyn." They would always think that I meant that I lived in Brooklyn, and I would have to clarify that.

Brooklyn Sudano

They Ask Me Quotes #435063
#70. The looters are using Google Earth, too. They're coming in with metal detectors and geophysical equipment. Some ask me to confirm sites.

Sarah Parcak

They Ask Me Quotes #436482
#71. What we do is entertainment. They wouldn't go to Tom Cruise and ask if his movies are fake. We provide entertainment. I would rather someone tell me I am not entertaining than ask if what we do is fake.

John Cena

They Ask Me Quotes #440110
#72. I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

Charles Yu

They Ask Me Quotes #448199
#73. Why did you bother creating me, he wanted to ask. Why bother giving me a brain and a realization of how miserable existence can be? Why did you invent creatures who die, and worse, who know they are going to die? What is the point of so unkind an act of creation?

Meg Rosoff

They Ask Me Quotes #469870
#74. Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers, and they tell you things about themselves. During a school year, I'll get e-mails asking about the books. I'll give them information, but I won't do their homework for them.

Lois Lowry

They Ask Me Quotes #514762
#75. A lost of people recognize me and maybe will ask for an autograph, but it's nothing like if Elvis would've done something like that, 'cause he's so popular, or maybe The Beatles 'cause they stirred up a lot of action.

Mickey Gilley

They Ask Me Quotes #536111
#76. We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men. If you ask me what offices they may fill, I reply-any. I do not care what case you put; let them be sea captains, if you will.

Margaret Fuller

They Ask Me Quotes #554370
#77. Every time we go by KFC, my kids ask me to honk and they yell 'Boo' out the window.

Pamela Anderson

They Ask Me Quotes #575607
#78. But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

Abbey Lincoln

They Ask Me Quotes #589337
#79. Let those who smile at me, ask themselves whether they have been indebted most to imagination or reality for all they have enjoyed in life, if indeed they have ever enjoyed any thing.

Charles Robert Maturin

They Ask Me Quotes #618711
#80. I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.

John Darnielle

They Ask Me Quotes #643767
#81. I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to explore in the future.

Tamora Pierce

They Ask Me Quotes #647248
#82. My breath caught in my chest. Misunderstood artsy types weren't supposed to smile like that. They were supposed to glance at others condescendingly and ooze sarcastic witticisms. I felt like this guy was going to wiggle his eyebrows and ask me to wrassle

Katherine Pine

They Ask Me Quotes #658725
#83. Most people only ask questions so they can listen to themselves talk. Or hear something they are able to cope with, but please, nothing that might get the better of them. "Do you love me?" is one of those questions. There should be a total ban on it.

Nina George

They Ask Me Quotes #686337
#84. And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.

Janis Karpinski

They Ask Me Quotes #719976
#85. Many times people come to me to be reassured. They ask, they say, 'I'm feeling very happy and blissful. What do you say?' What is the need to say anything? The very need shows that the happiness is unreal and imaginary.

Rajneesh

They Ask Me Quotes #733980
#86. I ask myself how other people see me, and I hope they see me from way far away.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

They Ask Me Quotes #739434
#87. People come up to me all the time and say, 'Oh, I love to watch Food Network,' and I ask them what they cook, and they say, 'I don't really cook.' They're afraid, they're intimidated, they know all about food from eating out and watching TV, but they don't know where to start in their own kitchen.

Michael Symon

They Ask Me Quotes #771687
#88. When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is my dog, Puffy. They think I mean Puff Daddy. No, it is the dog,

Patrick Demarchelier

They Ask Me Quotes #784085
#89. People will speak slowly to me sometimes. And they always ask me if I'm all right, because I'm much more low-key and reserved than my character in 'Friends'.

Matt LeBlanc

They Ask Me Quotes #809287
#90. Ideally, each week, I'd like to have rad, intelligent, creative, funny guests with different takes on the world of music. I will ask them all what their favorite blink-182 song is, and what they like best about me as a person.

Mark Hoppus

They Ask Me Quotes #816644
#91. People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question."

Mickey Rourke

They Ask Me Quotes #841775
#92. How long before I die?" he answered, "You probably have three to six months of good health." That reminded me of my time at Disney. Ask Disney World workers: "What time does the park close?" They're supposed to answer: "The park is open until 8 p.m." In

Randy Pausch

They Ask Me Quotes #842605
#93. I have been very, very fortunate on this show, on 'Suits,' where the writers do come to me, and they ask my comfort level and, if they want to push an envelope in a certain direction, if I'm okay with that. And, by and large, I am. I think it's important.

Gina Torres

They Ask Me Quotes #842886
#94. When people ask me how they can know Gods plan for their lives, I tell them the best first step is to know God.

Pete Wilson

They Ask Me Quotes #872468
#95. I whisper to the sea three times. Once I ask that Corr will be meek and good, so they'll have no reason to use the bells and magic that he so despises.
But twice I whisper for him to be despicable, so that they'll beg for me to come back.

Maggie Stiefvater

They Ask Me Quotes #887878
#96. They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.

Helmut Newton

They Ask Me Quotes #969315
#97. Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that the people in power must think they do something, because they keep the songs off the air.

Pete Seeger

They Ask Me Quotes #987356
#98. When you meet someone, ask about what hobby they have, not what they do. People always ask me about cooking, but I prefer to talk about tennis or boxing.

Wolfgang Puck

They Ask Me Quotes #1048267
#99. I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.

Adam DeVine

They Ask Me Quotes #1059456
#100. I shall ask to see whether they want me in dress clothes or in Japanese.

Sessue Hayakawa

They Ask Me Quotes #1064180

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