I know that sounds corny. And I know you've heard it before. But it's really true: We're so much more than our bodies.
There's this whole list of old personalities that I can act, as corny as that sounds, or as method actor as that sounds.
It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?
With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast.
Commercials used to have such a serious tone to them or a really corny tone.
When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.
I feel like there are a lot of bands or musicians that probably think improv is corny, because I think that's a sentiment out there.
On a day when you're not feeling so good, you put on a happy face, it's infectious - these things sound kind of corny and stupid, but this is our life.
I never lost my dreams in my 20s, and I know that sounds corny, but it's incredibly important to never let go of what you really want in your life.
I would love to collect art at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.
My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.
So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping.
I know its corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me through and through.
If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.
Everybody has the prerogative for their own career in this business, and I firmly believe that to this day. But if you and I give each other our word - call me corny - I think you have an obligation to uphold that.
This may sound corny, but I really admire my husband, Vivek Deora, as a businessman because I am amazed by how he conducts business internationally.
I used to watch those rock videos where they would chainsaw the piano. And I thought, 'That's what I want to do.' I thought classical music was corny.
It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.
A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.
I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you.
We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.
I always thought that the film would be successful if we captured Harvey Milk, like the way Harvey really was-the personality, the humor, the corny bad jokes, all of it.
It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.
I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.
This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.
It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.
It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.
It may sound corny to some guys but I still believe after all these years that the game isn't over until the last shot Is fired.
Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.
I don't like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won't hurt you. They'll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.
So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it.
I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
As corny as it sounds, natural highs are the greatest highs in the world. The stars, the mountains, children, babies smiling are just magic.
Movies, like old-school TV, are cheesy, corny. Movies are not exciting anymore. They're not cutting edge.
I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.
The Marine Corps has to ask itself, 'What does our nation need from its premier crisis response force?' We are America's shock troops in war and peace. I know it sounds corny, but it's not.
Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.
You're going to think I'm being corny, but this is how I really feel: I hope my family and my friends will be able to say that I was an honest, kind and fairly decent man.
When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.
My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.
After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.
It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them.
For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes,
and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.
Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies - liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet.
I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.
Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.
It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges - I relish them - I think it's what make me tick, to a certain extent.
The truth is - and this is corny - I fall more in love with Portia all the time. I really do. She surprises me all the time.
I know it's corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me through and through.
I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it's very, very true.
I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.
I always think 'Pity the Child' is a goodie. And I've always liked a song called 'Heaven Help My Heart,' which is quite a corny number.
I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.
Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.
Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?
I grew up in the '80s, when breaking was cool, and then it got corny in the '90s, and it became cool again with all these choreographed B-Boy dance crews.
It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
At the risk of sounding corny, the beach and the ocean are such a constant part of Los Angeles life, so that definitely seeps into our music.
Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.
It sounds corny, but I wanted to be the change I wanted to see in the world. I used to have that on my notebook in school.
A director must push his actors to the utmost limit to get everything possible out of each scene - without being corny or sentimental or going overboard.
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