"Standing in line to vote! We can do anything!"
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"Hemingway and Saroyan had the line, the magic of it. The problem was that Hemingway didn't know how to laugh and Saroyan was filled with sugar."
"Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."
"Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line. Beauty walks a razor's edge...someday I'll make it mine."
"Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine."
"But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do."
"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."
"In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned."
"I watched The Muppet Movie obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear."
"I'm usually sort of ambiguous in terms of whether I'm playing a good person or a bad person. I can walk that line of funny but also dark, and I'm happy doing that."
"One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't."
"I did smoke a joint and I did inhale. The bottom line is that's what it was in the '70s, that's what I did."
"Sometimes you do know, in 'Commando' when I said 'I lied', I knew that it was going to be a funny line. I've never had a bad line."
"I've always just shown up to set and said the lines, [but] I want to help develop scripts and help cast and help bring a visual tone to something."
"If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still — nothing."
"Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves."
"It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance."
"I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods."
"And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair."
"If the Dauntless knew about this, everyone would be getting in line to learn how to drive it,” he says. “Including me.” “No, they would be strapping themselves to the wings.” Christina pokes his arm. “Don’t you know your own faction?"