Top 1200 Cracking Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I love the process of dressing up, and people that dress up, and serving looks and drag queens and club freaks and all of that.

I'm very fortunate to have parents who have kept me grounded, so I hopefully won't end up in a bad situation when I grow up.

You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.

You enjoy that as a player, though, going up against the best, just try and see how you stack up.

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.

If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!'

Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going to.

I grew up in celebrity world, so I know what famous people are like, and I've never looked up to them in that way.

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'

I am not an educated person. I didn't come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have a lot of inferiority feelings concerning my own lack of education, my entry into show business. I'm not a Baryshnikov. I'm not a Nureyev. I came up in vaudeville. Strippers. So I've always had these feelings. But I think they've also helped me.

There is a certain generation who have grown up being able to mash up, to tinker with, every system they've ever encountered.

I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.

I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece.

I grew up looking up to DJ Premier, who would have the illest hip-hop joint on everybody's album.

I did not watch a lot of wrestling while growing up. I started following after I came up to WWE.

Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or dramatically.

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.

And don't get hurt,' [Dexter] added. 'There's no one to help you up there. And don't go stirring up a lot of trouble for us. This case isn't ripe yet. Until it is, our policy with Mr Big is 'live and let live'.' Bond looked quizzically at Captain Dexter In my job,' he said, 'when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It's 'live and let die'.

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and doing a show.

Growing up, Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo were the players I looked up to - and Carlos Tevez when he was at the club.

I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing and performing for TV. So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don't want to ever give up any part of it. I will say that stand-up is my first love; it's how I got started and is in my bones.

The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The Zuckerburg's, Pages and Brins, that succeed have such a level of belief in what they are doing that they will put up with the kind of crap that most people won't put up with, they are incredibly persistent and resilient.

It's a very scary time for a lot of people; they feel scared to speak up. There's so much controversy even speaking up about politics to begin with. People try to discredit you at every single corner, especially if you're a woman. So it's hard as an artist to really speak up about this kind of stuff when you're trying to be successful and have a career.

A long-term relationship is about showing up and working hard and banking on each other. If one's down, the other might be up and can help the other one up, and sometimes you're both down and you just [band] together. Endurance is a big theme of it for me. That might not sound romantic, but I kind of think that it is.

Walt Disney grew up in Marceline, but almost every child has grown up with his beloved characters.

But when we find that one person who completes us, we don't give up. No matter how bad we screw up. We make it right.

I travel all over the world, but I'm never happier than when I'm walking up the hill to pick up my children from school.

For every two degrees the temperature goes up, check-ins at ice cream shops go up by 2%.

Chris Jericho was always someone I looked up to. I was a WWE fan growing up, and I remember his debut.

I couldn't not be who I am. That bubble eventually bursts down the road. So you just have to be real, and when you goof up, say you goofed up.

I grew up in the 'hood, but it was like growing up in Beverly Hills because there were so many superstars around.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.

Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

There are no excuses this time. Now it's up to women to step up and lead ourselves and our sisters through the threshold.

He drank standing up because he said, 'If you drink sitting down, you don't know if you will be... able to stand up.'

The first to five, it's anyone's game. You only have to slip up in one leg, they get a break and then you're up against it.

I don't want to look up and think, 'Wow, I had a moment to really be a part of changing the world, and I didn't live up to it.'

From 1934 to 1963, the biggest criminals in America ended up on Alcatraz. Nowadays they end up on Wall Street.

Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tub by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying up water. Somebody should teach them how to close the tap.

Never give up, no, never give up If you're looking for something easy You might as well give it up.

Yes, exactly. I think that Christmas is always used at any point in the year to cheer us up, like each other up. We would use that to cheer each other up if we were in a sad mood or something, we'd just start talking about Christmas.

When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.

Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

People need to wake up and realize that life doesn't wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.

When I came up, it was Macho Man and all these other guys, and you had to come up with your own stuff. If you didn't come up with your own stuff, you weren't getting over.

I did grow up in a small town. I grew up in a lot of different places. But I consider my home to be Cleveland.

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

"Pick me up," is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently.

We had barracuda jackets and alligator shirts with the collars up. We were wearing the collar up before it was cool.

I was adopted by a Salvadorian mother and a white father. Growing up having complete identity crisis. Then my search for my mother and trying to find out why I was given up, and how could a mother give up a child, then finding out the circumstances of my birth was pretty traumatizing.

I think you set up certain standards. I've always kind of believed in the Neil Pert way of making records where I'm trying to step it up every time I do something. You're trying to better yourself. You're also trying to make your audience or your listeners more interested. So, if you can up it, I think that's important.

Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified.

'Chewing Gum' is kind of like the world I wish I grew up in. There wasn't really a sense of community growing up.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.