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Tim Conway Quotes

At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.

Tim Conway

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: December 15, 1933

Topics

Future First Falling Afraid Off

We've become a country that is often risk averse. That's not the way to succeed.

Jerry Moran

Succeed Country Way Risk Become

Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!

Jeanne Calment

Children Worry Having Children Less

Our country was founded on protest. Otherwise, we would still be a colony of England.

Stan Van Gundy

Country Protest Would Still Our

Growing up in New Orleans, when you're in seventh and eighth grade, and you're into music, and you're a dorky dude, you know, you listen to the entire Rush catalog and the entire Zeppelin catalog, and you go through these, like, phases of classic rock.

Steve Zissis

Music Growing Up You Growing Know

As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.

Sigourney Weaver

Change Light Me Interesting Someone

Lizzie Magie was a pretty astonishing woman. She was an outspoken feminist, she had acted, she had done some performing, she had written some poetry, and she was a game designer.

Mary Pilon

Woman Poetry Game Done She Pretty

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

Mohsin Hamid

Television Human Image Human Being

There are etiquette things that actors, new actors, need to know about. Because it only takes one mess-up on a set to get fired. Not being where you're supposed to be or saying something to the wrong person that you're not supposed to say, and those are like basic things that the actors need to know.

Loretta Devine

Saying You Wrong Person New Know

Those who perpetrate fraud against our financial institutions will be met with the full force of law enforcement.

Loretta Lynch

Law Law Enforcement Financial Fraud

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.

Dorothy Denning

Achieving Complex Level May Attack

Throughout his presidency, Clinton made a point of getting close - physically and emotionally - to the people whose problems his administration was working to solve.

Dee Dee Myers

People Problems Point Presidency

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

Chris Cornell

Music Creative Me Writing Process