#asked

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#career #dear #doors #feature #friends

I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band. ↗

— Travis Barker

#asked #band #called #gigs #i

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#apple #asked #fall #millions #newton

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' ↗

— Evan Bayh

#because #current #determined #enough #filibuster

You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked. ↗

— Kabir Bedi

#asked #could #film #get #i

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing? ↗

— Anne Tyler

#asked #came #child #found #i

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#come #dissipated #done #get #great

I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#body #body image #categories #country #emotional

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#asked #been #brains #fact #fond

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism. ↗

— Edward Bond

#asked #being #called #community #competition