Albert Finney Quotes

I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time.

Albert Finney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 9, 1936

Topics

TimeLongPartyGoSittingWay

I enjoyed acting at school and went to an acting workshop for kids in Nottingham. It was twice a week after school and free to go to - ITV subsidised it. Every now and again, a casting director would turn up. 'Peak Practice' became a rite of passage for us. It was the first job I had.

Joe Dempsie

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Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

John Dingell

LibraryLivingWildWithoutBurning

You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.

Andy Garcia

LifeChoicesDoingYouMoviesJust

I will say this: Boy, did I get lucky to work with Matt Drudge and Arianna Huffington.

Andrew Breitbart

WorkSayBoyWillLuckyGet

No, I love it at Chelsea. I've been here since I was 14, and I'm 28 now. All my friends are here, so I'm going to stay for ever unless Chelsea tell me I've got to go, which maybe one day they will, but for now I'm definitely staying.

John Terry

LoveDayMeFriendsGoOne Day

People are being incentivized for the wrong things. We've heard about a lot - doctors for procedures rather than creating wellness or maintaining wellness.

Stephen J. Dubner

PeopleWellnessWrongCreatingBeing

Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.

Tom Jones

LifeTimeMeSingingThinkEnemy

Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.

Misty May-Treanor

TogetherBrokenGoldWinWinning

I think he could win, absolutely. I think he could win because there's Trump supporters out there who aren't even revealing themselves as such. For me, that's a scary prospect because I think he'd be a disastrous president.

Louis Theroux

MeWinThinkPresidentScaryOut

The key thing for me is to secure medium-term funding for the Roundhouse studios. It costs around £2m a year to run, but we want to grow it, and of course that will cost more.

Lloyd Dorfman

MeKeyGrowYearWantRun

If you are trying to favor the unions by having more rigid labor market and keeping wages very high, you could be blocking people from getting new jobs.

Jose Angel Gurria

PeopleTryingYouNewLaborUnions

It's not necessarily about the physical aspects when people say receivers have a lot of drops or can't catch the ball. It's that they are not focusing on the right things. That their mind-set is not in the right spot.

Doug Baldwin

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