Semi Quotes

"The challenge was to capture the stillness of him. I have kind of semi-frantic, nervous energy. Harnassing that was something I thought I`d have to work out. Shooting in the wilderness, the stillness became like this innate quality." -on his character "Ennis" in Brokeback Mountain (2005).

- Heath Ledger

"It`s so attractive, too attractive. Your writing becomes more real than your reality. Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous." After writing her semi- autobiographical novel Telling Lies, published in 2001.

- Sophie Marceau

"When I was a kid, my dad was a drunk, and he would sometimes try to kill me and my sister. Well, he didn`t really, but he said he would, and it scared us. I knew I had sort of a comic talent, comic timing, and I wanted to be a comic actor. When things were bad, I would go to bed crying and think, "I`m gonna be really famous. I`ll show him." So I tried to do that, and as a result, I met the other guys.(The Kids In The Hall.) By the time of the TV show, the quest for being famous had melted away, and it became about loving the work. I really fell in love with the work. I learned how to write, and there I was on TV for five years. As a result, I became semi-famous, because I stopped caring about it. I honestly thought that if I kept caring about it, I wouldn`t be known."

- Kevin McDonald

(about Arthur Miller`s semi-autobiographical play "After the Fall") They should have called it "After the Money"!

- Jason Robards

(On his role as a basketball player in `Semi-Pro`) I love the fact that this is historically accurate and funny all at the same time. You can parody the sport and you can parody the era, but at the same time you have a built-in arc for the audience as they watch this team try to attain the lofty goal of fourth place.

- Will Ferrell

(semi-consciously, to the nurse who hauled him on the gurney): Does Nancy know about us?

- Ronald Reagan

I collect guns and shoot them regularly. It`s all purely recreational shooting, I believe in the right to bear arms. I`m beside myself on the banning of the semi- automatic assault rifle. Guns don`t kill people, people do. I don`t carry a gun, but I respect them. I always take a gun on location because you never know. (1989)

- Charlie Sheen

(Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City, UT), January 23, 2004) Since there`s not more news than there used to be, but there`s way more time, and more channels doing it all the time, so that analysis has become much more than news . . . They really have to fill and they go, "(Expletive), we`ll just have analysis for the next three hours," because there`s no more new on the story. And then . . . the first person with a semi-cogent thought, they go, "(Expletive), I`ll say that, too." And then that analysis becomes accepted dogma because analysis is the bulk of what you`re getting. You`re not really getting any more news.

- Stephen Colbert

(suburbia) "I think the atmosphere that I grew up in, yes, there was a subtext of normalcy. I don`t even know what the word means, but it`s stuck in my brain. It`s weird. I don`t know if it`s specifically American, or American in the time I grew up, but there`s a very strong sense of categorization and conformity. I remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No one was really religious; it was just the framework. There was no passion for it. No passion for anything. Just a quiet, kind of floaty, kind of semi-oppressive, blank palette that you`re living in."

- Tim Burton

My team has not performed consistently this season but have made it to the semi-finals and at this level Los P have a way of finding their form.

- Tony James

A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.

- Eric Clapton

The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses.

- Kim Hunter

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

- Lasse Hallström

I like to play blackjack. I`m not addicted to gambling, I`m addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

- Mitch Hedberg

I`m in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don`t ride horses, I don`t golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

- Pat Morita

On his fling with Communism: "What did I care for labor? For racial discrimination? For civil liberties and the war between the classes? Oh, I cared in my own fashion. I cared just enough to embrace these things as props, flailing away night after night at semi-drunken parties."

- Sterling Hayden

Once I hit the guard rail, I lost my semi-balance and it dropped behind me.

- Matt Stairs

And PSV played very, very well (in last year`s semi-finals), maybe better than us.

- Paolo Maldini

Five days ago I was on holiday and having fun. Two days I didn`t think I`m playing. Now I have a chance to be in the semi-finals. It`s strange. Who knows?

- Fernando Gonzalez

My idea of a good Christian is a priest who can speed-read the Mass, not a semi-demented American with a permanent grin.

- Harry Enfield

He was extremely outwardly religious. He was always trying to get me to go with him to one of these sessions of Opus Dei, which is a sort of a semi-secretive, conservative branch of the Catholic Church,

- James Bamford

Clematis plants were planted at the bases of the cables to create a semi-transparent walkway of greenery and flowers, which have yet to mature. Benches still need to be installed, and the cascading pools around the causeway won`t work until next spring.

- Mark Donovan

Clematis plants were planted at the bases of the cables to create a semi-transparent walkway of greenery and flowers, which have yet to mature. Benches still need to be installed, and the cascading pools around the causeway won`t work until next spring,

- Mark Donovan

We`ve designed our units so you can drive right inside to unload. A car, truck, even a semi will fit inside -- and that`s a real convenience when you`re working in our often harsh Minnesota winters.

- Tim Jordan

I got sick when I was playing the semi-finals in Korea, and since then I`ve had a tough time playing,

- Jelena Jankovic

Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee.

- Sandra Lee

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn`t merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

- Albert Pang

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That`s all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

- Amy Barry

We`re well positioned in the hottest electronic markets out there '“ wireless, digital TV ... there isn`t a semi company out there that has the position that TI has in digital TV. We`re just in some hot areas that are driving a lot of strength.

- Ann Gard

We`re well positioned in the hottest electronic markets out there '“ wireless, digital TV ... there isn`t a semi company out there that has the position that TI has in digital TV, ... We`re just in some hot areas that are driving a lot of strength.

- Ann Gard

(Leprechauns coach Mark Barrett was disappointed with the end result, but refused to comment on the decisions which cost his side.) There's nothing we can do about it, so we'll just look ahead to the semi-finals, ... We've come out of the game with a fair few injuries so a week off with the minor premiership would have been nice, but we've got to play now.

- Ashok Bhattacharya

At the end of our conversation, I said the church would get the word out about donations and Karl agreed to drive the loaded semi to the people in need.

- Barbara Thomas