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“Anyway, I'm doing my rave and this spittle comes out of my mouth and it winds its way very delicately through the wire fence that separates us and lands clear and bright on Denzel's lip. And we're at the beginning of the scene and I've got to do the rest of the scene, and the camera isn't on him, it's on me - and I'm fully aware that I've just spat on Denzel Washington!”

Way Clear Land Wind Scene Mouths Cameras Lips Fence Wire Rave Spats Denzel

Author:Russell Crowe

“So you have the challenge of just learning the lines, period, and not only learning them, but learning them to the extent that you assimilate them, so that you're not worried about what the next word is coming out of your mouth when it comes to doing a scene. And you're also in the trenches with the writers, just in the wonderful kind of back and forth of how is it best to say something, even if it involves four or five words. I love that kind of thing.”

Ifs Kind Next Challenges Lines Five Four Wonderful Periods Scene Mouths Worried Coming Out Back And Forth Trenches

Author:Glenn Close

“If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.”

Ifs Done Enough Bigs Position Mouths Injustice

Author:Michael Caine

“If I'm doing some weird tick with my mouth, or not standing still or something, I'll be the first person to notice it, and then want to change that. I think it's important just to maintain trajectory, to not just use your same tricks over and over.”

Ifs Thinking Want Firsts Persons Stills Important Use Mouths Standing Tricks First Person Tick Trajectory Standing Still

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes.”

Ifs Long Sometimes Enough Stories Truth Is Mouths

Author:Willem Dafoe

“It's hard to smoke a pipe, and it's actually kind of brutal. It burns your mouth and your throat, and to keep it lit.”

Kind Hard Mouths Smoke Throat Brutal Lit Pipe

Author:Charlie Hunnam

“When I was in acting class, we did a lot of really serious scenes, and we didn't do comedic scenes. I felt like doing those scenes, it didn't come out of my mouth the right way. I don't know if it's because my voice is different, or what it is about me, but it just seemed a little off.”

Ifs Knows Way Littles Different Felt Voice Acting Class Serious Scene Mouths Right Way Comedic Acting Classes

Author:Leslie Mann

“I was a weird kid because I liked to be alone, but I craved attention. It was important for me to be cool, but I couldn't keep my mouth shut. So I was either talking for the sake of talking, or I was curled up with a book somewhere hiding from everyone.”

Important Book Kids Attention Talking Mouths Sake Hiding Being Cool

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time. I got into a theatre company and started doing stand-up gigs for cash, so I lived hand-to-mouth, but there was always enough to pay the bills.”

Thinking Years Long Enough Whole Hands Wanted Jobs Three Felt Pay Company College Long Time Mouths Bills Theatre Employment Three Years Cash Frustrated Gigs

Author:Bill Bailey

“Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.”

People Should Stories Eye Film Sound Term Justice Mouths Dialogue Visuals Film Directors Film Directing Directing Film

Book:Hitchcock

Source: Hitchcock

“I walked around my apartment with food in my mouth asking myself: "How do I come up with this voice?" Then I found the voice. I called the director and said on the phone: "Guess who you're talking to Chris? Sid, that's right Sid!" And that's how I came up with the voice. That's a true story.”

Said Stories Found Voice Talking Directors Mouths Asking Phones Come Up Apartment True Story Sids

Author:John Leguizamo

“I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.”

Lasts Missing Mouths Contests Beauty Contest Congeniality

Author:Phyllis Diller

“Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor.”

Ifs Doe Body Evil Brother Speech Mouths Fishes Profit Neighbor Flesh Bites Speakers Brothers And Sisters Disgraceful Fowl

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.”

Remember Mouths Jonah

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Every time somebody opens their mouth they have an opportunity to do one of two things - connect or divide.”

Two Opportunity Mouths Two Things Divides

Author:Joss Whedon

“Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead becoming the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone we will use the moment it comes close enough”

Enough Moments Use Wish Forget Enemy Becoming Mouths Stones Crisis Mere Heavy Rational Going Away Caves Apes Pretense Civilisation Pretension Primates

Author:Orson Scott Card

“All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.”

Two Used Mother White Lord Mouths Ears Dear

Author:Stephen Fry

“When you got your hand in the lion's mouth, don't do nothin' til you get it out.”

Hands Mouths Lions

Author:Big Bill Broonzy

“To say what or where we came from has nothing to do with what or where we came from. We do not come from there any more, but only from each word that proceeds out of the mouth of the unnamed. And yet sometimes it is our only way of pointing to who we are.”

Way Sometimes Mouths Who We Are Pointing Where We Came

Author:W. S. Merwin

“Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.”

May Happens Mouths

Author:Cato the Elder

“Beware of the anger of the body. Master the body. Let it serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mind. Master your thoughts. Let them serve truth.”

Mind Body Masters Truth Is Mouths

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth. He didn't fight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I stared and stared and victory filled up the little rented boat from the pool of bilge where oil had spread a rainbow around the rusted engine to the bailer rusted orange, the sun-cracked thwarts the oarlocks on their strings, the gunnels-until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go.”

Littles Fighting Water Half Sun Victory Mouths Filled Caught Fishes Corners Spread Oil Boat Strings Engines Pool Rainbow Orange Hook Cracked Filled Up

Author:Elizabeth Bishop

“A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.”

Source: The shores of light: a literary chronicle of the twenties and thirties

“Lord keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth.”

Hands Lord Arms Mouths Shoulders Alcoholics

Author:Maya Angelou

“When I talk to a man, I can always tell what he's thinking by where he is looking. If he is looking at my eyes, he is looking for intelligence. If he is looking at my mouth, he is looking for wisdom. But if he is looking anywhere else except my chest he's looking for another man.”

Ifs Thinking Men I Can Eye Mouths Chests Another Man

Author:Dolly Parton

“You are on the look out for experience, strength, and hope. You want to hear from the horse's mouth exactly how disappointments have been survived. It helps to know that the greats have had hard times too and that your own hard times merely make you part of the club.”

Knows Want Looks Has Beens Hard Helping Mouths Horse Disappointment Clubs Hard Times Survived Strength And Hope

Book:Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

Source: Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

“The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.”

Wise Mouths Smell Ducks Frogs

Book:THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more

Source: THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more

“The highest compliment we can give to God, our Creator, is to thoroughly enjoy the gift of life. One should never look a gift universe in the mouth! The best way to pay for a beautiful moment is to enjoy it.”

Way Giving Should Looks Moments Beautiful Universe Enjoy Pay Highest Mouths Creator Best Way Compliment Gifts Of Life Beautiful Moments

Author:Ronald Rolheiser

“One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.”

Turns Mouths Seven Tongue

Author:Roland Barthes

“I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York City - and I worked my way to get to where I am.”

Way Born Cities New York Projects Mouths Humble My Way Silver New York City Spoons Humble Beginnings Silver Spoons

Author:Adrienne Bailon

“Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he's drawing. But when I would write a story - I know it's going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile - I would, in a way, start living it.”

Ifs Knows Way Writing Stories Faces Sound Watches Expression Draws Mouths Sitting Drawing Ridiculous Sitting Down Curls Cartoonist Infantile Funny Face

Author:Al Jaffee

“When you sing opera you are very far from the people, you are onstage, and between you and the people there is the orchestra. So you have to launch your emotions very, very far. When you sing pop, you are singing very close - the microphone is very close to your mouth. You can whisper your emotions into the microphone.”

People Emotion Singing Mouths Pops Opera Orchestra Microphones

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“People like to run their mouths.”

People Running Mouths

Author:Terry McMillan

“I have a big mouth, and over the years, as the eldest of five, I have had a tendency to speak when no one really cared.”

Years Bigs Speak Five Mouths Tendencies Eldest

Author:Terry McMillan

“If you look at some of the clips of me in the operating room, I sit in the chair, I control the microscope with my mouth, I connect, my hands are always working in the brain, my feet are controlling everything.”

Ifs Looks Hands Rooms Brain Feet Mouths Chairs Microscopes Clip Always Working Operating Room Controlling Everything

Author:Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

“It always comes down to what the crowd buys coming out of your mouth, which differs from one comic to the next.”

Next Mouths Crowds Comic Coming Out

Author:Ted Alexandro

“I am a futility. The life of prayer begins with that. And God is not a comfort, to be offered like Kleenex. God is a poisoned sea, with broken syringes washing up on the beach. God is shopping malls stretching to the horizon and warplanes in the sky. God is a flat tire in a rainstorm and beer cans in the ditch, a bottle shattered on a highway and the taste of gunmetal in your mouth.”

Prayer Sea Sky Broken Comfort Taste Mouths Beer Beach Flats Horizon Bottles Shopping Tire Highways Washing Shattered Stretching Futility Malls Rainstorms Flat Tires Kleenex

Author:Tim Farrington

“Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.”

Way Mouths Links

Author:Peter Straub

“...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Needs Made Sometimes Use Running Land Waste Mouths Garden Endless Parish

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Nobody even mentioned the word losing, losing games. We know we've been a losing franchise. He just wanted to say something back like he's always running his mouth. That's what he does. He runs his mouth all the time. Nobody was blaming him for anything. For him to come back at me was a personal attack. I feel that if there is anything that he is unsure about, tell him I would be more than happy to say it in his face, or any kind of other way, that would make him understand.”

Ifs Knows Way Feels Kind Doe Would Be Running Wanted Faces Games Losing Mouths Blame Unsure Always Running Personal Attacks Losing A Game

Author:Carl Crawford

“I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, except that their lives would constantly be in danger from the hungry predatory poor. All the technology would serve the rich, but they would need it for their own protection and to assure their continued prosperity.”

People Thinking Needs Said States Hands Would Be Poor Technology Rich Danger Mouths Prosperity Protection Hungry Wilderness Predatory

Book:To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux

Source: To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux

“A single word that can be offensive to someone is a horrible thing for anyone who has iman. In other words, filthy language out of your mouth and faith inside your heart cannot coexist. You cannot have iman in your heart and ugly words come out of your mouth. If you have no control over whatever four letter words you keep using every time you get frustrated, there's a spiritual problem, it's not just a habit problem. How can you use a terrible word for anyone who has iman?”

“Put your money where your mouth is.”

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Author:John Sheridan

“When I open my mouth, the room rings.”

Rooms Mouths Rings

Author:David H. Murdock

“What's Your Purple Goldfish? busts a myth and reveals a simple truth about customer service. Stan uncovers the recipe for creating signature added value that increases customer satisfaction and drives positive word of mouth.”

Values Simple Creating Mouths Increase Satisfaction Customers Myth Recipes Purple Signatures Customer Satisfaction Simple Truths Word Of Mouth Goldfish Positive Words Added Value

Author:Barry Moltz

“Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality.”

“I'm Adam Richman. A food fanatic who's held nearly every job in the restaurant biz. Now I'm on a mouth-watering journey to find America's greatest pig-out spots. And take on the country's most legendary eating challenges. I'm no competitive eater, just a regular guy with a serious appetite. This is my ultimate hunger quest. This is Man v. Food.”

Men Country Jobs America Guy Challenges Journey Serious Eating Mouths Ultimate Hunger Spots Restaurants Appetite Adam Quests Pigs Fanatics Legendary

Author:Adam Richman

“Every bite you eat stays in mouth for two minutes, for two hours in stomach and for two month on hips.”

Two Hours Minutes Months Mouths Hips Stomach Bites Two Months

Author:Christian Dior

“I still grieve for the words unsaid. Something terrible happens when we stop the mouths of the dying before they are dead. A silence grows up between us then, profounder than the grave. If we force the dying to go speechless, the stone dropped into the well will fall forever before the answering splash is heard.”

Ifs Wells Stills Happens Fall Force Grows Silence Forever Growing Up Heard Dying Terrible Mouths Stones Graves Grieving Unsaid Speechless

Book:A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life

Source: A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life

“I regard texture similar to the function of taste buds in our mouths. But in a visual form. Texture does create a specific flavour which affects our senses.”

Doe Form Taste Mouths Function Regard Senses Visuals Texture Bud Flavour Taste Buds

Author:Adamo Macri