#told

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#become #begging #father #film #four

Our forefathers never envisioned that a handful of staff write a bill and you rush it through a committee without reading it and you rush it to the floor without reading it, and you pass it just because you're a Democrat and Democrats told you to do that. ↗

— Mike Ross

#bill #committee #democrat #democrats #envisioned

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong. ↗

— Ann Richards

#anything #before #college #could #dad

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral. ↗

— Keith Richards

#funeral #had #i #live #me

I've been told that I have a lot of energy. The secret is that I use renewable resources. Some days I'm solar powered. Some days I'm wind powered. And some people in this room might think I'm hybrid gas-powered. You'll just have to guess which it is today. ↗

— Bill Richardson

#days #energy #gas-powered #guess #hybrid

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#great #jo #need #needs #stories

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#character #constructing #constructs #her #his

Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#impossible #something #told #way

Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they're not. We're told they can only be one thing - like handsome and charming and that's it. Nothing more. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#boundless #charming #films #handsome #like

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh. ↗

— Chita Rivera

#i #latin #laugh #made #me