Bill Rancic Quotes

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.

The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.

Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit.

And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya!

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

Yes, there have to be places for safe wonderful stories.

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.

When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bombardment of e-mails and opportunities and papers around my desk, for an hour, and just sit on our 30-inch terrace in the sun, reading something sustaining, whether 'The Age of Innocence' or the latest by Colm Toibin.

Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.

When I am shooting, I am inside the theatre, when I am in the editing room, I am inside the theatre. I always try to feel what they will feel. I see a film, not as a director, but as the audience. If I am entertained, they will be, too.

I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.

We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.