Prospect Quotes

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(On being a professional actor) I started acting at 18 years old because I got a lead role in a movie. It wasn`t like I was a kid going, "When I grow up, I want to be an actor." So I think what drives me is I found something very young by mistake that I could do. But that doesn`t necessarily mean I love it all the time. Because it`s not lovable. The process of acting itself for me is really simple. It`s not brain surgery. You take the character, and you play it as naturally as you possibly can. That`s it. There`s no greater or higher purpose. What makes acting difficult is the business end of it. Because no matter how genius an actor is or how many millions of dollars he makes, he can look back in his past and see a sea of rejection--even the people who are at the top of their game. Just because someone is like Leonardo DiCaprio doesn`t mean he gets to do anything he wants. He has to fight for those roles the same as anybody else. Now, he is fighting on a different level, but it`s still a fight. What`s difficult about the prospect is trying to reinvent your self-confidence, even though it`s constantly being torn down. And, of course, for every 10 people who like you in a film, there`s 10 people who won`t. I read one critique of me in Velvet Goldmine that said I had all the charisma of chewed bubblegum. I think I kept that one in my scrapbook.

- Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I`d spent my entire teenage years suffering one unrequited love affair after the other. I was so shy I couldn`t even talk to girls. If I fancied them, I`d follow them home, but I didn`t have the guts to approach them. I was a teenage stalker. The same went for John. The first time I saw him he was this geek with nicotine-stained fingers, trembling with fear at the prospect of having to meet people. And his name wasn`t even John. It was Nigel. He was a Nigel with glasses, poor sod. I remember staring at his face and slowly realizing that he was rather beautiful, exquisite in fact. I mean, this was the best looking guy I`d seen in years, maybe my whole life. Losing his glasses and changing his name to John was the best thing he ever did. He was a man transformed. To see him in action was incredible. He could charm the knickers off anyone.

- Simon Le Bon

It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I`m sure that he wouldn`t like the prospect of it put to him, and I won`t even go there with Eminem.

- Robbie Williams

Always a foot soldier, never a general. - on the prospect of ever directing a film

- Julie Christie

I`m not comfortable doing that. You shouldn`t send that message out, that tight clothes are what get you the attention. If it works for them, fine. But, it`s not for me. - about the prospect of her dressing in revealing outfits similar to those of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera

- Mandy Moore

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

- Hunter S. Thompson

Would you take a new prospect into this customer`s plant or offices to show off your partnership? If you can`t get a good reference from this account-or if you aren`t willing to ask for one-you need to re-examine the relationship.

- Robert Miller

Then there was school. I wasn`t a great success: I was shy, not particularly clever, and dyslexic. But thanks to an English master called Quibble-Smith, who gave me a part in a Greek tragedy, I realised that I enjoyed getting into character - I could express myself better through a character than I could as myself. The part was Athena, and I had three pages of speech to deliver, which was quite a daunting prospect. It was an open-air performance, and the speech was to be given from the top of the cloisters. I wore a ghastly Roman helmet, a shield and a spear and was bedecked in blue silk skirts topped off with a long, blond, curly wig. As I stood up to speak, the wind caught my skirts and raised them above my eyebrows. I spent the entire speech battling with billowing silk and revealing everything underneath. It didn`t dampen the desire to perform, though.

- Anthony Andrews

It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can`t get any better than that!

- Kathy Bates

They wanted to open up room for Ryan, and that`s good -- Ryan Zimmerman is a great player and great prospect, ... The trade will work out for me, too. I`ll be in San Diego with a team that made the playoffs this year.

- Vinny Castilla

I`ve said that if we were going to do a reunion, they have to pay me the money they should have paid me when I did the original (on the prospect of participating in a "Melrose Place" reunion)

- Daphne Zuniga

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

- Cecil Beaton

To build public support for what they`re doing, scientists are always going to say there is the prospect to cure all these horrible diseases, but they`re cautious for the most part in saying when those cures will arrive.

- Richard Ashcroft

I won`t close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.

- Warren Buffett

The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.

- Dick Ebersol

Energy price volatility is taking its toll on consumer confidence, as is the prospect of higher (interest) rates in the months ahead.

- Jennifer Lee

Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

- Victor Hugo

We are active in water sports and while the shark remains in the water there is the prospect that danger still exists. Our public would feel a lot safer if that shark was removed from the water.

- David Oliver

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics, each identifying with and transmitting his experience to the next -- chain style. If each sufferer were to carry the news of the scientific hopelessness of alcoholism to each new prospect, he might be able to lay every newcomer wide open to a transforming spiritual experience. This concept proved to be the foundation of such success as Alcoholics Anonymous has since achieved.

- Bill Wilson

Chris Kirkland is a brilliant prospect who has suffered badly with injuries, but he is now started playing regularly again, so I feel the time is right to have a good look at him.

- David James

a terrifying prospect to serious foreign policy players.

- Chris Nelson

The past month has been filled with prospect activity. We have had inquiries and site visits from several quality prospects. The increase in prospect activity is an encouraging sign for what may come over the next 12 to 18 months.

- John Boswell

We plan six wells at present, but if successful, we will attempt to extend the drilling contract and drill one or more sidetracks from each surface location to establish the reserves of each prospect area such that additional platforms can be designed and installed.

- Chris Gibson

The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

- James Monroe

I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect.

- Emma Bonino

I have been very pleased with Dennis Hobson, ... We spoke to many people about the prospect of working with them and Dennis delivered. He put his money where his mouth is and delivered the fight.

- Ricky Hatton

I am very impressed with the way Summus captured the essence of my tutorial products and integrated it into a fun, challenging mobile hold`em game. We are very excited at the prospect of imparting poker knowledge via mobile phones at any time, or any location. The product is valuable to all poker players whether they are practicing for a big tournament, or needing to access pre-flop tips while actually playing a hand online or at a real table.

- Howard Lederer

I am very impressed with the way Summus captured the essence of my tutorial products and integrated it into a fun, challenging, mobile hold`em game. We are excited at the prospect of imparting poker knowledge via mobile phones at any time or location.

- Howard Lederer

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.

- Alan Matsui

I hadn`t given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you`re nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.

- Alex Urquhart

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

- Alexander Surikov

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

- Alistair Graham

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

- Allison Sharp

Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.

- Amjad Hussain

I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

- Andre Bauer

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

- Andrew Karmen

I don`t think Joel moving to left field means they don`t believe in me. He`s an exceptional prospect. I can`t focus on anything I don`t have control over. I can`t do anything about that.

- Angie Ketchum

(The top filly went to John Oxley, who paid $675,000 for a Giants Causeway filly out of the unraced Mr. Prospector mare Prospect of Joy. ) Shes a very nice filly; very correct and well balanced, ... I love her sire, and she just looks the part of a racehorse. I buy horses who I think can win Grade 1 races.

- Angie Whitesell

Actually the prospect of going into debt is just enough to discourage some people from applying to college.

- Ann Talbert

It`s a big job. I`m very humbled, but very excited by the prospect.

- Anna Farneski

The league is very enthused about the prospect of having a flagship facility in the New York metropolitan area, and they`re liable to be focused on helping assist this project with a retractable roof.

- Annette Wiese

I was really encouraged to see the rebound in activity in June and July. The local economy looks much healthier this summer than it did this past spring. However, a clear up-trend is not yet in place and probably will be slow to develop given the punishing level of energy prices and the prospect of more consolidation in the auto industry.

- Anthony Hernandez

(Cathey) is an outstanding football prospect. Illinois was in here a couple of weeks ago and was very impressed with him on film.

- Art Keeble

We remain upbeat on the growth prospect of the company and the solar photovoltaic energy industry. Demand should continue to be strong as more governments around the world adopt solar PV energy.

- August Hanning

He`s an interesting prospect. But if his name wasn`t Jeremy Bloom and he wasn`t an Olympian, then I don`t think people would be talking much about him.

- Azouz Ennifar

I can`t see any particular catalyst for the market going lower because there is the prospect of economic recovery, and improving expectations for economic growth in due course should feed through to improving expectations for earnings and should stop undermining apparently bad valuations.

- Ba Jin

I doubt if the bank saw it that way, but it was a courageous decision by them. I was an outside prospect from nowhere but I needed to pay for that trip somehow. I think that credit card was like the cycle; it got a really good workout on that trip.

- Barbara Becnel

Throughout the region, the prospect for growth is quite great,

- Barbara Grunkemeyer

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

- Thomas Jefferson

A bride is a woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

- Ambrose Bierce