Shaking Quotes

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(Morocco) "When I finished V for Vendetta (2005), I went for a few days as sort of a birthday present for myself. I went out into the desert and an amazing storm was taking place, which is so unusual in the desert. I ended up in a tent with the six strangers whom I had just met, and had traveled with earlier on camel back. There we were, watching this amazing lightening in the middle of the desert. The tent was shaking and it was a really exciting experience."

- Natalie Portman

Macho was a fashionable word in the 1980s. Everybody was kind of into it, what`s macho and what isn`t macho. I really don`t know what macho is. I never have understood. Does it mean somebody who swaggers around exuding testosterone? And kicks the gate open and runs sprints up and down the street? Or does handsprings or whatever? Or is macho a quiet thing based on your security. I remember shaking hands with Rocky Marciano. He was gentle, he didn`t squeeze your hand. And he had a high voice. But he could knock people around, it was a given. That`s macho. Muhammad Ali is the same. If you talked with him in his younger years, he spoke gently. He wasn`t kicking over chairs. I think some of the most macho people are the gentlest.

- Clint Eastwood

"I`m reminded of the scene in the movie (`Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with me`) with Sheryl Lee, whom I adore. It goes back to that scene about each character having their own world. It is almost like lava. At that moment in their lives both Laura and Harold had a lot going on, separately, but when it came together, it was supercharged. Nobody knows how many levels that scene plays on. By the end of it we were both shaking. Sheryl was really shivering. She had put herself through it. I was worn out, too. When it was over, I saw some movement out of the corner of my eye. David (Lynch) was dancing a jig. I thought, `Wow. That`s what it should be about.` He was celebrating the exploration. He acknowledged the moment. And that is very, very rare." - on playing Harold Smith in `Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with me`

- Lenny von Dohlen

(When interviewer asks if he thought he had a hit on his hands) "We had been dragged across a cheese grater, face down, for two solid years, and we thought we had the biggest money-losing film in history. Then we had our first preview screening in Minneapolis, and there was a woman sitting behind me - I had no idea who she was: a Minneapolis housewife, maybe - who narrated the entire film. She was like a Pez dispenser: everything just popped out of her mouth. I just kind of leant my chair back so I could hear what she was saying. I remember distinctly the moment when Jack and Rose are shaking hands when they are about to part, and Rose is saying, `You`re very presumptuous,` and the woman sitting behind me is saying, `Yes, but you`re not letting go of his hand, are you?` That was the moment when I knew the movie was communicating exactly the way it was meant to."

- James Cameron

It was one of the spookiest jobs I`ve ever had, but Alcatraz was not the problem. Most of the film was done in L.A. I`m in this four-by-six cell--wet, naked, covered in shit, live bugs in my hair, live rats chewing on my leg, Chained to the walls for a lot of it. Being beaten by Gary Oldman; of course, I can`t think of anyone I would rather be beaten by. One day, it was four-thirty on a Monday morning, we`d been working all night, and the ground started shaking. We were right near the epicenter. It was a horrible experience. Here I was, naked, shackled in this cell, and just every day playing some new level of agony. It was the closest I`d ever come to losing it. I`d cry on the way to work. (On filming Murder in the First during the 1994 Northridge earthquake)

- Kevin Bacon

I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don`t want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don`t want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily- digestible garbage. This is rock and roll. I want to be a rock and roll star! Rock and roll is about shaking things up, making people act and react. That`s what I do.

- Marilyn Manson

I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don`t want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don`t want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily-digestible garbage. This is rock and roll. I want to be a rock and roll star! Rock and roll is about shaking things up, making people act and react. That`s what I do.

- Marilyn Manson

My belly dancing represents me - it`s a trademark. I`ve tried to incorporate it in original ways in modern songs. But sometimes it bugs me a bit that people resort to (saying) that I`m shaking my ass with a huge sexual charge, instead of recognizing it as a move that, yeah, it`s loaded with sensuality, but it`s also part of an artistic expression.

- Shakira

(1994, about her son Daniel) He`s seen everything -- even my videos. He just thinks, "It`s mom." He`s more like a father or a husband. He says, "Mom, if you don`t call me by this time, I`m going to be very worried." And if I don`t call him, he`s at the door, shaking, crying because he`s afraid that something happened to me. He`s so protective.

- Anna Nicole Smith

What I`m trying to be is a missing link in the music industry today, ... There`s not a lot of positive messages in music today. You hear a lot about shaking your booty and guns. You don`t hear a lot of Stevie Wonder. I`m motivated to make a difference in the world and encourage youth to be who they are.

- George Huff

(on Tristan + Isolde (2006)) The funniest scene was where we drag James into the hut. We referred to that scene as the Franco Sandwich, me and Bronagh. When she drops down naked and said the line, "Ah, I haven`t been naked with a man in 15 years!", we always used to find that so funny. You know when something kinda gets you and you just can`t stop? I`d see him shaking and I`d start laughing... it took about 69 takes to do.

- Sophia Myles

(on working with Montgomery Clift on "From Here to Eternity") The only time I was ever really afraid as an actor was that first scene with Clift. It was my scene, understand: I was the sergeant, I gave the orders, he was just a private under me. Well, when we started, I couldn`t stop my knees from shaking. I thought they might have to stop because my trembling would show. I was afraid he was going to blow me right off the screen.

- Burt Lancaster

(Then the earth began shaking at Warner Bros.) We just had a wonderful team there, ... But it`s just the way of the world. We live in corporate America, and Warner Bros. is a huge corporation. So there was this big regime change. Slowly, we started to see the people that we knew ... start to disappear. They had left of their own accord or had been let go. Then we heard that (label chief) Jim Ed Norman was on his way out. ... It was one of those things where we were not their `baby` anymore.

- Heidi Newfield

Anyone who said he wasn`t afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn`t shake but inside I was shaking.

- James Farmer

Maybe this is a wake-up call for us, too, to say `Hey, we`re shaking things up,` and, hopefully, it can help motivate us.

- Jason Bay

Maybe this is a wakeup call for us, too, to say `Hey, we`re shaking things up,` and, hopefully, it can help motivate us.

- Jason Bay

Try to imagine taking a child`s dollhouse, filling it with water, shaking it up, then setting it back down. That`s what my men are searching now.

- John Hunt

Starbucks is my main fix and it`s usually you people working in there - sometimes they`re actually shaking. It just makes me feel horrendous because I`ve been in that situation.

- Shirley Manson

That`s about all we can and want to do right now -- study the situation and see what`s shaking loose around the league. We certainly hope to find somebody who can fill the bill, but we`re going to be pretty selective.

- John Hammond

Daniel is really positive. In the past I`ve worked with a lot of negative individuals and it puts a lot of strain on you. Hard rock can be fun. It doesn`t have to be all death. People miss the idea that rock is based on rhythm and having that move you rather than having someone shaking their fist and piercing their eyebrows.

- Rich Mullins

I was scared at first. I thought, `Oh, it`ll go away,` and for two months it wouldn`t. Shaking hands, stupid stuff like that, I was pretty sore.

- Jim Edmonds

Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.

- Henry James

I have to believe people in Raleigh are shaking their heads as to the amount of money spent on a totally ill-conceived concept.

- Bob Collins

I`m shaking like a leaf.

- Michael McGrath

God is shaking me.

- Benny Hinn

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they`re going to make mistakes.

- Ross Perot

Because it was quite dark in that corner I was being pushed towards shaking hands with somebody just as a matter of courtesy and then it transpired it was President Mugabe.

- Jack Straw

My whole body is shaking. This is such a fast track and that`s not out of the gas much,

- Elliott Sadler

I was shaking pretty bad. My `shaking meter` usually tells my guys (crew) how good I run. When I came in, that was the first thing they checked.

- Elliott Sadler

My whole body is shaking right now. This is such a fast track. It was very nerve-racking, but very fun.

- Elliott Sadler

Writing is hard for me, ... every critic and reader in the world is looking over my shoulder and shaking their heads about how bad that last sentence turned out.

- Tess Gerritsen

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

- Albert Alschuler

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

- Anatol Rapoport

The petitioner was held in a sealed underground cell, with no windows and no way to escape the poison chemicals that were pumped into his cell (ostensibly to kill cockroaches.) The petitioner`s throat swelled up from the chemicals; he could not breathe. He began to choke. He vomited. His eyes swelled shut. He began shaking and was in great pain. His head began to throb. He lost consciousness. Before he passed out, he pleaded with the guards to remove him from his cell but they refused. The petitioner suffered from severe headaches, nausea and dizziness for weeks after this episode. It is not clear if there has been permanent damage to his respiratory system.

- Andy Landers

The little boy was trembling uncontrollably, ... His little legs were shaking so badly as to appear exaggerated. Yet, he was so scared that he was too scared to cry.

- Angel Mata

My daughter really loves the apes; she started shaking her head back and forth like a monkey.

- Anthony Stasio

This presentation changed my life...and that`s no exaggeration! Multi-Dimensional Marketing woke me up to no fewer than 4 profit creators in my business. I`m literally shaking with excitement to go home and start making changes.

- Arnold Settelmeyer

The level of shaking is comparable to what was experienced in Northridge. The good news is that there are fewer people out there.

- Ashley McElhiney

Oh my God, you guys, I seriously do not have a speech prepared whatsoever. I`m shaking right now.

- Christina Aguilera