Top 1200 Gearing Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy dressing up.

I tried sticking a piece of candy up my nose...it ended up getting stuck and the nurse had to get it out.

Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.

I grew up as a tomboy. I was always barefoot, running races with the guys on the block, climbing trees, and beating kids up.

For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up.

I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.

You know what wakes me up? A tongue in the ass. There is no alarm clock on that one, you are up, you are shaking, you are in a karate stance.....the day has begun.

See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

If I go out with no make-up and a tracksuit on, nobody comes up to me. And if they do, I won't do a photo because I wouldn't want any photographic evidence.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it's hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

As soon as I have the script in my hand, I'll be up in my apartment room pacing up and down learning it because it's just such a lovely thing to do.

I want to encourage young women to stand up for each other and speak up when they see others in a tough situation.

I grew up surrounded by these strong, brilliant women who showed me what it meant to show up in the world with purpose and intention.

You'd better hurry up to the Gard and back. God knows what depravity we might get up to here without your guidance.

I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

Just broke up with somebody. Well, it wasn't really a break up, it was a booty call I might have took too serious.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.

I just like to build. Don't get me wrong: I think stand-up is great, and when someone like Richard Pryor or Steve Martin does stand-up, there's nothing better in the world. But I don't want to watch a lot of stand-ups for two hours. So I can do 45 minutes of stand-up and then say, 'Can we do something else now?'

This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.

It's always nice when someone comes up to you and tells you they enjoy the show. At least they're not coming up and saying how much they hate it.

When you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing. But the fans don't know you screwed up unless you act like you just made a mistake.

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew up with, and I loved it.

I was 5'3' when I was 15, but suddenly shot up to over 6 feet by the time I turned 18 and it was clear that an NBA career was up for grabs.

I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.

When I'm on telly, I feel a bit trussed up and I hate make-up and it does put weight on you and I look and see my chins.

What's interesting is that you can have a set that's very calm, very smooth, very cooperative... and end up with a terrible movie. And you can have a set that's really horrible as far as relationships and volatility, and come up with a great movie. Sometimes that energy gets infused into what ends up on film - it's interesting in that way.

I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

Once you're dating already, then you go to dinner. But I've never been on like a, 'I'm getting dressed up for a date. Pick you up at 7.'

I've always wanted to live really high up, and this is the only flat in the building with a balcony, so I feel quite smug up here.

You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.

If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me clean up the environment in my head - let me work with that pollution and that ecosystem.

I grew up as a baseball player, and given my modest size, it was always clear that I would end up playing in the infield.

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

When I grew up, there were common patterns to people's lives. Now everybody is just making it up as they go along.

God is not going to sit up here and judge you for what you've done in the past. Church has opened up my mind in a whole different aspect.

I have all the gym kit set up in my house but I am too lazy to get up really early in the morning to do it myself.

So we get a plan," I said. "Any suggestions?" "Blow up the building," Kincaid said without looking up. "That works good for vampires. Then soak what's left in gasoline. Set it on fire. Then blow it all up again." "For future reference, I was sort of hoping for a suggestion that didn't sound like it came from that Bolshevik Muppet with all the dynamite.

I think that people all grow up and have their same personalities, but you can say, "Oh, I can see the roots of this personality, which I didn't like, but then you grew up, and I can still see you as that person, but I do really like you now." Which is sort of how I feel about children - I mean, about children who I knew when I was a child and grew up with, and they're still my friends, and children that I know as children who I see growing up, and every year I like them more.

Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters.

I've had a bond with West Ham since growing up as a kid, going to Upton Park, looking up to the players.

Looking up is the biggest alibi ever invented to explain a terrible shot. By the time you look up, you've already made the mistake.

I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.

I'm not sure about doing 10 takes of running up a flight of stairs, whether I'm really up to that... but I'll definitely have a go!

You know all of my fears. There's nothing your eyes can't see. When I tried to give up Lord, you never gave up on me.

I'm a uniter not a divider. That means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up.

I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.

Noise about carrier M&A will heat up dramatically in United States and India. The pent-up demand for action is there.

I realised when I was a striker that when I ended up wide on the left or right, it can be so much easier to get space and face defenders up.

I went to many games with my dad, Kevin, and looked up to the players. It's surreal that now young fans are looking up to me.

Growing up, I had trouble finding clothes because I was curvy, and so I would end up designing my own things.

To be a successful boxer, the last thing you need to be doing is turning up to the gym stoned. You're going to get beaten up if you do that.

Setting up our own label allows us to rip up the rulebook and find new ways of reaching an audience.

Heaving up a blind pass to maybe pick up 10 yards, rather than throwing the ball away - I can't do that.

Sometimes I'll be somewhere, and the cops will show up to kick me out and end up just asking for a photo.

I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour.