Upon getting work as an off-Broadway actor in 1967: I made $70 a week as an actor and I`d been making $60 in LA. Making more than that as an actor was just unbelievable to me. I never went back to typing but had some real lean times in-between. But I didn`t have to go to work for anybody else. I didn`t have to wash dishes, I didn`t have to wait tables, I didn`t have to drive a cab or wash cars. I deliberately left myself nothing to fall back on. If you`ve got a cushion, where you land, you stay. You can`t climb a mountain with a net. If you`ve got the net, you`ll let go.
- Morgan Freeman(on his first trip to America and landing Remington Steele) The trip to America, it was such a great joy to go there with Cassie, to take that leap of faith and go to the New World--all that nonsense you read about in books. But again it was a liberation. In Los Angeles, I rented a car from Rent-A-Wreck, a lime green Pacer, with a cushion, because the springs were coming through, and I got a map and went on my first interview in Hollywood. Somehow I found my way out to Laurel Canyon. I got up to the top of Mulholland Drive and the car broke down, blew up. I did eventually get to the interview and saw a casting director from Mary Tyler Moore Productions. Boom! They were looking for Remington Steele. The last thing I was looking for was a TV series. I went to America thinking I was going to work with Scorsese. Taxi Driver I`d seen about 10 times and Mean Streets; that`s where my brain was at. I was going to do movies. But I needed work. I went through several more interviews and then Cassie and I came home to Wimbledon. Then the call came: Would I return for a screen test? And it was, `My God, what have we done? What have we done? What are we going to do?` Panic, panic, panic. Don`t panic! We`ll go to America. We`ll take the kids to America. So Cass, the two kids and I hopped on a plane and went to America.
- Pierce BrosnanLiberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.
- Ann CoulterPrior to (the interception), we were just trying to get out of the half. But when we get the pick and the good field position, we`ve got to take our shots down the field. We were going to take three of them there because there was still enough time that we could have done something. That ended up being a really big cushion if you look at the entire football game.
- Don BrownIt`s good to have a little cushion. But it`s not going to be easy.
- Gabe KaplerI think we decided to be a little more aggressive. Obviously we also picked it up defensively, but we needed to go ahead and get some good looks and knock them down. For myself it`s just a matter of not just sliding into the background, but stepping up and making shots, knocking them down. That got us going a little bit. Tina (Thompson) started hitting a few too. I hit a couple, she hit a couple and it gave us a little cushion that helped us down the stretch. We didn`t have to sweat it out too much.
- Katie SmithI felt someone was revealing hard truths about themselves, revealing uneasy things about themselves, which I always find really generous, ... It makes my life easier when people say, `Hey! I`m not perfect,` or, `Hey! I`ve got flaws.` And he did it with such a sense of humor and such compassion for all those flaws, he was making us all a cushion to trip over and fall on, you know?
- Mike MillsThat`s a tough situation going against him and not have any cushion. Being in foul trouble, you`re not able to use your hands or get too close. He was able to gain an advantage, and that`s all he needed.
- Larry HughesIt`s got some cushion. It`s got some bounce. Overall it`s very even and in great shape.
- Steve HamiltonI always give myself a 5-per-cent cushion either way. So I can tell you that we will definitely spend the $27-million by opening night (March 23). That`s when the budget runs until, because we begin to recoup the next day. And we could go slightly over $28-million. But all projections are within the 5-per-cent window.
- Kevin WallaceCherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
- Christopher MorleyThe biggest key today was the guys giving me a cushion. I was able to use more of the plate than usual and guys, fortunately, hit the ball at people.
- John LackeyI knew I had a good car, ... Everybody we came to I could pass. The car would stick in the middle going in and come back and pick up the cushion. The car was getting off the corners better than it has in quite some time. It felt a little more like the car did at the beginning of the year. I had an exceptionally good racecar tonight. I could run the bottom in Turns 1 and 2 and I could run through the middle and back up to the cushion in Turn 3. When you`re like that, (crew chief) Scott Gerkin and the guys did a great job.
- Ann LongIf Fed Funds were expected to rise in the future, the curve would be positive with intermediate and long bonds requiring higher yields as a cushion against accelerating short rates. If the Fed were expected to lower rates, a flatter, even inverted curve might result. It`s not that this academic theory has been dislodged in recent years but it may have been asked to take a seat next to the increasingly important variable of global financial flows. These flows, no doubt, rely critically on the willingness of foreign investors to hold U.S. assets in the face of potential currency and asset price depreciation.
- Anne LangThey`ve got a good cushion of capital there.
- Anthony MarshallWe spotted him that one run. My freakin` terrible throw went to center field. Give a guy like that a one-run cushion when he`s got his `A` game . . . that`s tough.
- Arthur ChapmanI think the pressure was very high after the last races, not only from other persons, also from myself, because I came here to win a medal. It was so nice to win here today with such a big cushion and I could enjoy the last loop.
- Arthur SylvesterThey killed us inside. Second half wasn`t quite so bad. At some point we finally said enough is enough. That kind of stalled them out enough for us to get a little bit of a cushion. We kind of limped home from there.
- Atul HatwarHe`s unbelievable. We had not scored too many runs and we gave him a little bit of a cushion today and that allows the pitcher to be a little bit more aggressive.
- Aubrey Gilbert