Grabbing Quotes

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people`s attention.

I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.

(On meeting Pope John Paul II at the White House in 1978) "He impressed me more than any other man I`ve ever met, and I`ve met a lot. My wife and I happened to be seated on one of the aisles, and the Pope came right down and he saw me and smiled. The smile was genuine, not a politician smile, the practiced smile. He shook hands with me and went on. And then (US President Jimmy Carter) said, `Hello, Gregory, what are you doing here?` and I said, `Well, Mr. President, you invited me.` He said, `Just a minute` - and damned if he didn`t run after the Pope, grabbing him by the arm and pulled him back. He said, `Your Excellency, this is one of our best-known, most-beloved American film actors.` And he looked at me, ah! There was a glimmer as if somehow he must have seen me in a movie. His eyes widened and he took me in his arms. And he sort of grabbed me by the elbow and said, `God bless you, Gregory. God bless you in your mission.` And he went on."

Let me say this that I don`t complain much about it because 95% of celebrity is good. People are very nice to you, they put you up in really nice hotel rooms, they give you free shit, I mean it`s basically good. If I`m in a situation, and this rarely happens anymore, where someone doesn`t recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I`m horrified. I`m not used to it anymore. That being said, it does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. In the day-to-day thing to have people looking, talking, grabbing, needing something--I don`t know what it`s like anymore to be anonymous. Until you give it up, it`s hard to picture what it`s like, but yeah there are times that I do wish that it would go away, if only for a moment. (On being a celebrity)

(Also,) I`m doing a lot of good stage dives, ... I`ve been getting a lot of good air, landing halfway into the crowd and getting passed around. But I`ve got to take off my necklace because I got choked one night by someone grabbing my necklace from behind. That was kind of irritating. But the audience gets so loud and there`s so much energy when I do that, so it`s a good way to end the show.

Oftentimes they are. But I can`t live my life trying to change me to appease someone else. If someone`s intimidated by me, that`s something they have to deal with. When I walk down the streets of New York and an old woman grabs her purse when I pass by, I`m not going to give it a whole lot of energy because I`m not in the wrong, I`m a millionaire and I`m not thinking about grabbing an old woman`s purse. Also, there`s a difference between presence and physical size. I think I`ve been blessed with screen presence, but if you look at me next to John Travolta, for example, John`s bigger than I am. I do work out and I am muscular, but I am not that big a man. (On if people are intimidated by his size)

I love it. There`s no clutching and grabbing, you have more ice and you don`t get as tired having to fight through.

On one play, I remember hitting him out of bounds, grabbing his throat and squeezing it like it was Silly Putty, ... `You cheap shot artist!` Brunell screamed at me. `You`re going down, Brunell! I looked at your friggin` face every day for a friggin` year! I`ve waited all year for this!`

If that was an indication the clutching and grabbing is going to be gone now. I really noticed it on the power plays. You know that crosscheck on the back? I didn`t feel it. That`ll really make a difference with Derian Hatcher, Richard Matvichuk, Chris Prong ... hold it. He`s on our team now.

There`s no other time in the year where commercials can take center stage. Commercials are always the things that are playing when you`re going to the bathroom or grabbing a soda from the fridge.

there`s not much that`s attention-grabbing. Tom Cruise has grabbed more attention this summer than the war.

Father White had a penchant for grabbing me and other boys, ... He had no problem because no one would believe us.

They threw me down ... then, they took my head and started banging it on the ground, face first into the cement, ... It was so quick I had no time to react -- to grabbing anything or anything.

We are committed to building on the success of last year`s event and at the same time grabbing the opportunity to promote Bahrain as a hub for tourism and business in the region.

The sell-off is due to all the locals grabbing profits before the end of the day, nothing more.

says Koby. ``He took us shopping. On the first day he took us to a big Wal-Mart and he was like a kid in a big toy store. Grabbing a bunch of stuff saying, `You`re going to need this, you`re going to need that.` It was funny.

Tracks are grabbing at this like it`s a panacea. I`m concerned it`s not the answer.

The word from talking to the officials and other people (at the game) is that it was grabbing and a couple of shoves, kind of like a rugby scuffle.

We think they are targeting certain pieces, because sometimes they leave something more expensive sitting right next to what they grab, and they seem to be grabbing the same stuff from everybody.