Smacked Quotes

The director came to us and he said "No, I really want you guys to learn to sing. To learn to play instruments and I want you to record an album". and that is what... and I just absolutely was just gob-smacked and I said .. "I don`t know. I can`t do that." And he said "Well I want you to try." Now that`s the thing for me. If someone asks me to try, I will always try. - On doing her own singing in Walk the Line (2005).

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

I quit a year and a half ago and I turned into a werewolf. I went nuts. I`ve been smoking since I was in junior high school. I did a couple of episodes of The West Wing two years ago and I was in the middle of one of these psycho things and turned around and smacked the stage door as hard as I could and my fist immediately swelled up. Thank God I didn`t break anything, but that was the last episode I had of nicotine withdrawal. (on quitting smoking in 2003)

The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.

Old age is an insult. It`s like being smacked.

So I was smacked out on the Prime Minister`s jet, big deal.