Assignment Quotes

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(on Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)): It was full of traps; it was a delicate tightrope assignment. I found that very interesting. Robert Aldrich gave it a very special style, a kind of dark, glittering style which fascinated me.

- Olivia de Havilland

Well, when I first got sent the script to The Assignment (1997), I thought, `Why don`t they offer this to Andy Garcia?` And it turned out they did. I said, `Oh, OK`. I had a little bit of a question of `How the hell am I gonna be believable?` Or `Will it be that much of a question in the audience`s mind that I`m supposed to be Venezuelan?` So, we went with the brown contacts for Carlos and darkened my skin, worked with a good dialogue coach. And then when I heard Andy Garcia was playing an Irish cop in Sidney Lumet`s movie (Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)), I stopped worrying about it. But that`s one of the great things about being an actor. We get to play dress up. And that`s what this movie was for me. Wigs, beards, mustaches, dialogues. Intrigue. It was a tremendous amount of hard work, but fun work for me.

- Aidan Quinn

It`s very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.

- John Frankenheimer

I just asked myself, what piece of that man`s soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week`s assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?

- Paul Haggis

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

- Phyllis Schlafly

All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done.

- Martin Short

You got to zone everything out and go out and do your assignment.

- Chris Hovan

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person`s time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.

- Annie Leibovitz

Assignment-wise, these two guys don`t make mistakes,

- Greg Taylor

He`s been in a couple of these situations recently, and there`s nobody that feels more grateful for getting this assignment than he. He`s been close a couple times, and I`m sure he was wondering if it was ever going to be reality. But it was a matter of time. It was just inevitable. All he needed was the right mix.

- Terry Ryan

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

- Neil Sheehan

My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.

- Jack Adams

They`re throwing me to the wolves early, huh? I feel as though I can run with all those guys. All I need to do is go out and focus on my assignment, and I`ll be all right.

- Mike Adams

We want to reassure those who are concerned about the identification of (gifted and talented students), the process of student assignment and the transfer to our new facility.

- Chris Bennett

As a Naval officer, I was trained, essentially bred, to be a military aviator. I was a Naval officer on assignment, not an employee of NASA.

- Wally Schirra

I knew when I got the assignment it was going to be an emotional thing, ... We had feelings, but we had to put them in the background. We knew it was going to kill people right and left. But my one driving interest was to do the best job I could so that we could end the killing as quickly as possible.

- Paul Tibbets

I was saving my assignment when all this saved porn in the temporary file popped up, ... I saw things I never saw before.

- Carter Doyle

Why do I have to be subject to unflattering images when typing up an assignment?

- Carter Doyle

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

- Aaron Feddersen

Seat assignment didn`t matter if you`re flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn`t sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn`t matter.

- Alan Seay

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

- Alex Colletti

My assignment is what every writer`s assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

- Allynne Jones

Once polymorphisms (or alleles) have been discovered, study groups can be held to consider the research required for assignment of allele frequency.

- Andrea Gaston

I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It`s almost like his story sort of fell in my lap.

- Andrew Guccione

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake... spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer`s contribution to culture.

- Andrew Marvell

The end came off the edge and I missed an assignment there. I didn`t get my guy.

- Andy Dantzler

We feel pretty good about our ones. There`s some guys there that may not have the experience, like a Kayle Buchanan or a Quinn Gooch, but the effort is always going to be there. They`re going to be assignment sound.

- Annette Bauer

It`s very wide open. There could be changes. It`s whoever is going to step up during two-a-days and then make the players and be assignment sound.

- Annette Bauer

Overall, Graves is a good person, ... I just hope the stress from upstairs isn`t so tough on him that (it hurts) the relationship with the wide receivers. He`s going to have pressure. He`s got three No. 1 picks. ... But hey, he knew the assignment when he came.

- Anselm Of Canterbury

We are enormously proud to have been chosen for this assignment by one of the nation`s largest and most respected health systems.

- Anshukant Taneja

I glorify God when I do my assignment. You have an assignment. ... There`s a call of God upon your life. You are where you are on purpose. You must fulfill God`s assignment, God`s call on your life.

- Arul Chinnaiyan