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Your Quotes

On staying in control of what's truly your own.

These quotes focus on ownership: your trust, your plans, your self-esteem, and how easily outside pressure can chip away at decisions that should belong to you alone. For more, see our Know quotes.

Doing theater, I call it concentrated shampoo. You put a dime in the palm of your hand and you get a headful of lather. When you do a play, you're there for two and a half hours, and you live...

Quotes by Richard Kind

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

Quotes by Richard Hughes

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

Quotes by Richard J. Needham

I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.

Quotes by Richard Jenkins

Sci-fi conventions are probably the most fun, the most out-of-the-box, entertaining week or weekend you've ever had in your life.

Quotes by Richard Hatch

You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.

Quotes by Richard Holbrooke

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

Quotes by Richard Holbrooke

When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!

Quotes by Richard Grant

You do think, if you have your druthers, 'I want to sort of be, not anonymous, but unknown'. But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?

Quotes by Richard Greenberg

It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone's informed opinion. When you're a young playwright, you're probably too precarious in your own technique to understand that when these seemingly informed opinions are contradicting each other, it...

Quotes by Richard Greenberg

I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.

Quotes by Richard Hanna

You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help.

Quotes by Richard Hanna

Your father has to die, better he dies in your arms.

Quotes by Richard Ford

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

Quotes by Richard E. Grant

I would love to play your common, everyday guy, but I never get cast as that.

Quotes by Richard E. Grant

I can recall photographs of Comrade Ulbricht being embraced by Comrade Brezhnev, which must have been like putting your arms around Grant's Tomb.

Quotes by Richard Elman

It's not a long-term business model to take advantage of your consumers in ways that are not sustainable.

Quotes by Richard Cordray

When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and...

Quotes by Richard D. Zanuck

You've got to take responsibility for your actions.

Quotes by Richard DeVos

It's human nature to make the complex manageable and determine things that fit your conclusions. That's bias.

Quotes by Richard Burr

Frequently Asked Questions

What themes come up across these "Your" quotes?
The quotes touch on trusting others with your personal information, translating your own plans into words, feelings tied to a specific record, and a sharp, personal comparison involving self-esteem.
Is there a quote about privacy or trust?
Yes, one reflects on cryptography and not needing to trust others because encrypting your files gives you control over "whether you would surrender" that trust.
Is there a quote here referencing a real public figure?
Yes: "Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem" makes a pointed comparison using Milosevic's name.
Does this page talk about turning plans into action?
Yes, one quote explains a dislike of outlines and treatments, noting that writing your plan down on paper can make it "very hard to get those ideas out of your head and do something better" with them. For more on persistence and ambition, see Know or Always.
Is there anything here about music or personal records?
Yes, one quote describes a record as feeling "innocent," tied to being young enough not to fully grasp the weight of your own decisions. For more reflective, first-person lines, see Life or Like.

Related themes continue in our Always quotes and Life quotes, both about staying grounded in your own choices.