Great Quotes

I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.

It was great as an actor to be given the story line I was given but I didn't expect Craig to stay so it was a lovely twist when I found out they'd decided to keep him.

It still hasn't sunk in that I'm going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I'm working with some great people.

A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a nice coarse and rustic feel. I've never collected anything, but I think I might start collecting these because each one is decorated differently.

I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They're incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.

Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.

He 's ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes charge of him. Idealism is the only excuse he could have and it's a great excuse.

I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.

Skiing makes me feel great, and it gives my legs such an incredible workout.

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.

Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.

It was great to do and it's exciting to do those things. That's another thing, that one enjoys the game.

I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important.

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.

'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy.

Practical storage pieces are great if you have a basement or a garage. But when you actually live with them day in and day out, they should be beautiful to look at.

I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

Great teachers transcend ideology.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.