Dictated Quotes

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On being asked why he was always billed above Katharine Hepburn in their films together, when politeness dictated the other way around: "Because this is a movie, you chowder-head, not a lifeboat!".

- Spencer Tracy

I always have a rule that acting is acting and truth is truth and you just go out there and you do it. But what happens in each medium is that you have other responsibilities. The acting remains the same, but each medium dictates assuming other halves to make the acting work. When I`m working on a film, I just play the absolute purity of the moments. I don`t worry about the pacing, because the pacing is going to be dictated by the director and the editor. On the stage I have to give pacing to the play. As an actor, you, in fact, become the editor of the piece, in terms of the timing. You are required to engineer the pace yourself. In television, everything is in so close, that you realize that most of what you do has to register in your thought process.

- James Woods

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself. The worst type is dictated by demographics or what is hip or what kids are into. Kong isn`t driven by that. No way would a studio think this is the year that people want to see a big gorilla movie. I`ve come to realize that, as much as anything, I am making this for the 9-year-old Peter.

- Peter Jackson

I`m afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away.

- Stephen Fry

The weight issues is a huge one that arises almost in every woman. But I don`t think it`s increased it`s always been there. Since the 1920`s women have been encouraged to be thin. But even that is dictated by fashion. It alternates between being really skinny and being healthy

- Tiffani Thiessen

I`m not an historian and I`m not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who`s walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.

- Penelope Lively

Shell dictated the whole story.

- Charles Peterson

Long gone are those days where the studio dictated what they could wear, where they could go, and with whom they could be seen. It was programmed.

- Mary Hart

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

- Mary McCarthy

He rules the country by fear and you can see the Government here wanting to do the same thing, but what`s the point? History has dictated you can have all the security measures in the world with all these people taking their shoes off and dropping their nail files into boxes before they get on to a plane and, guess what, the terrorist will be on the train. You can`t make people be afraid all the time. It is no way to live your life and no way to govern a country.

- Rove McManus

And because it`s such a small town, your behavior is to some extent dictated by the fact that everybody in town knows you and you know everybody else.

- Estelle Parsons

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn`t want to take the chance.

- Ron Jaworski

I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.

- Dario Argento

I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.

- Marvin Gaye

All I want is for people to listen to it with unbiased ears, and decide for themselves. I just don`t want them to be dictated to by the media, or have preconceptions about it. If you like it, great. If you don`t, fair enough.

- Melanie Chisholm

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

- Jane Austen

The sweeping changes in the entertainment industry dictated necessary, competitive changes at ABC, and I feel that the time is right to move on.

- Jamie Tarses

I`m not going to be dictated, nor is the Boulder Police Department going to be dictated, by a demand by Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey or anybody else to put up or shut up. That`s not how the criminal justice system works,

- Michael Kane

The ticket price was dictated by the promoter and may have been too high,

- Nick Leeson

We expect to stabilize the price but price is dictated by the market.

- Jerry Martin

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

- Christopher Morley

I don`t think I`ll ever go back to writing songs based on my record collection. Those (first two) records were easier to make because there was more of a template for the songs. They were dictated by what kind of music I was listening to.

- Andrew Bird

If you were to see the state of the bodies, and the death of those people, you would know it was a miracle dictated by god that this child has come out alive,

- Mohammed Hassan

We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don`t regret he played for that period.

- Alan Russell

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

- Albert Rauch

Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts.

- Allan Fels

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

- Alois Fabry

Judge Casey said his ruling was dictated by a 5 to 4 Supreme Court ruling in 2000, which held that Roe v. Wade protects partial-birth abortion.

- Antoinette Rose

A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities.

- Dylan Thomas

(on her sister Constance): "That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she`d been shot from a canon and showered her sparks over an incredulous world with no thought or care where they fell, a carbon copy of father. She was like some silvery comet who streaked through life with daring speed, the wellspring of which was an inner confidence that I deeply admired. At times, particularly in childhood, I was intimidated by her but she dictated from an aura of affection for me that was never threatening."

- Joan Bennett