Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Thomas Mann

I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.
Bob Saget

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
Sting

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.
Vin Diesel

Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.
Philip Zimbardo

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
Abba Eban

They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.
Little Richard

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
Amy Tan

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.
Hedy Lamarr

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
Hedy Lamarr

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.
Charlize Theron

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
Duke of Wellington

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.
Suzanne Farrell

I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992.
Anna Nicole Smith

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
Don DeLillo

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
Don DeLillo

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.
Sun Ra

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
J. L. Austin

My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.
John Legend