Mcauliffe Quotes & Sayings

Hollywood is the place to be for actors - and there's just a big rush when an Australian comes over just because there's less of them. I guess that's just how it is. Like if you pick a pink jellybean out of a jar of green ones it'd be amazing, but if you pick a green one, no one will care. — Callan McAuliffe

There is no place people can hide from me. — Terry McAuliffe

I stay away from issues. — Terry McAuliffe

I have big ideas. If you don't like them, don't vote for me. — Terry McAuliffe

There is a visceral dislike of George Bush, and it's going to bring these guys together. — Terry McAuliffe

I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education. — Callan McAuliffe

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too. — Terry McAuliffe

Johnny Depp is really my favorite male actor. Ellen Page would be my favorite female actor. Both of them, just because of the diversity that Johnny plays in his roles and just the different characters that he morphs into, it's fantastic. — Callan McAuliffe

I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip. — Christa McAuliffe

I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn't play sport. — Callan McAuliffe

My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments. — Christa McAuliffe

I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something. — Callan McAuliffe

If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement. — Christa McAuliffe

Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years. — Christa McAuliffe

I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting. — Callan McAuliffe

I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean? — Callan McAuliffe

What the Internet was for the 1990s, green jobs are for the 2000s. — Terry McAuliffe

I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people. — Christa McAuliffe

I want a president who will build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. A president who tackles global warming head-on and stands up for common sense solutions that keep guns away from dangerous people. — Terry McAuliffe

I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor ... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time. — Callan McAuliffe

I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do. — Callan McAuliffe

No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson. — Christa McAuliffe

I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men. — Christa McAuliffe

I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy. — Callan McAuliffe

I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. — Christa McAuliffe

I don't like concrete jungles. — Callan McAuliffe

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space. — Christa McAuliffe

I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world. — Callan McAuliffe

People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business. — Terry McAuliffe

People ought to quit talking to the press. — Terry McAuliffe

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done. — Christa McAuliffe

I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space. — Christa McAuliffe

The first American word that I learned was cheeseburger. And the first sentence I learned was, "I'm sorry but we don't serve breakfast after 12 o'clock." — Callan McAuliffe

There's no director or actor that I want to work with more than anyone else, other then maybe Johnny Depp, who I really would love to work with. I don't view any directors or actors above regular people, so I'm just happy to work with anyone, as long as they have talent. — Callan McAuliffe

I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged. — Terry McAuliffe

We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up! — Christa McAuliffe

Everybody in this public arena makes statements and gets interpreted different ways. — Terry McAuliffe

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of. — Christa McAuliffe

I was a little concerned with how the crew was going to view me because I didn't know whether this program had been kinda forced down their throats. But they were wonderful. — Christa McAuliffe

I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon. — Christa McAuliffe

It was hard telling those kids ... that I wasn't going to be there this year. And I knew I was going to miss them. I won't have an opportunity to see them again, unless they stop by the house. Now during the summer, I got lots of notes; kids would stop by the house. I'd be pulling weeds or something and they would come up and give me a hug and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it, this is so wonderful!' and just get very excited about it. It was hard not being in school. I would have loved to have gone back to school. — Christa McAuliffe

I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land. — Callan McAuliffe

People pigeonhole me - I'm known for raising more money than any man alive. — Terry McAuliffe

I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart. — Callan McAuliffe

It is the Democrats who get the economic engine of this economy moving forward again. — Terry McAuliffe

One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can't go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer, that's gone to oil! — Terry McAuliffe

I've always been an entrepreneur, but it's never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better. — Terry McAuliffe

The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle. — Christa McAuliffe

What about justice," he asked, "and charity, and resignation, and courage, and everything which makes the human soul to live!" Religion, he continued, "is a spirit, a movement of the heart. You make of it a power, a society, an exterior force, something which struggles with other powers and other societies. To love God and one's fellow man, is it necessary to have so much materiality?"42 — Mary McAuliffe

The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff. — Callan McAuliffe

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated. — Christa McAuliffe

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space. — Christa McAuliffe

What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars! — Christa McAuliffe

Every shuttle mission's been successful. — Christa McAuliffe

I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing. — Callan McAuliffe

I've been called a lot of things. — Terry McAuliffe

I've signed thousands of documents, but never read them. — Terry McAuliffe

I personally believe in the power of second chances. — Terry McAuliffe

You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching so many peoples lives. Thats a teachers dream! I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Imagine a history teacher making history! — Christa McAuliffe

I've gone to China, bought a manufacturing company and moved it to America. Now China wants to buy back some of that new technology from me. That's a great story for America. — Terry McAuliffe

If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came. — Christa McAuliffe

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it. — Callan McAuliffe

A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back. — Callan McAuliffe

I touch the future. I teach. — Christa McAuliffe

I would like to be Pope if I could. — Terry McAuliffe

ordinary people acting together for common goals have accomplished incredible amounts. There is nothing magical about making social change happen. What is required is a sense of hope that it is possible to make a difference and some understanding of the world that helps orient our choices about what kinds of actions to take. — Garrett J. McAuliffe

I don't go for girls who have beach blond hair, that stereotypical girl thing. But, you know, whatever comes around. — Callan McAuliffe

Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?"
"It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts. — John Green

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can. — Christa McAuliffe

I could never drive in a great big car; people like me because I'm a man of the people, a hustler. — Terry McAuliffe

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was. — Callan McAuliffe

I'm always jacked up. I'm pumped up. It's just, I love life and I'm having fun. — Terry McAuliffe

Every country needs another country to make fun of. — Callan McAuliffe

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans. — Christa McAuliffe

I like people who are being normal and being themselves. — Callan McAuliffe

I like to sleep. I like to do nothing. Nothing is my favorite kind of something. — Callan McAuliffe

I do not think it would be appropriate to use official party resources such as the DNC website on behalf of organizations whose purpose is to reverse the current platform and/or to enact legislation that contradicts that platform. — Terry McAuliffe

We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen. — Christa McAuliffe

As governor, I don't want my fair share. I want more than my fair share. — Terry McAuliffe

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year? — Christa McAuliffe

'I Am Number Four' definitely borrows from a whole bunch of genres and has a whole bunch of different themes throughout. And I think if it was just one stale two-dimensional thing then it would be kind of boring. And I think they did a fantastic job. — Callan McAuliffe

I hate acting classes. I did a few, but I've always hated acting classes. I prefer to just watch a movie or watch TV and take it from there. — Callan McAuliffe

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers. — Terry McAuliffe

My sympathies have always been for working-class people. — Christa McAuliffe

Everyday is a new opportunity. — Terry McAuliffe

Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same. — Christa McAuliffe

I've got to have 25 balls in the air at the same time. — Terry McAuliffe

I believe in things that have proof. — Callan McAuliffe

I enjoy making money and I enjoy the work [acting]. I'm really into it and it's really fun. As long as it goes for, I'm happy to keep going with it. It's a good ride so far, and I hope the wheels stay on. — Callan McAuliffe

I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China. — Terry McAuliffe

When I decide to do something, I do it. — Terry McAuliffe

You need money to get out your message. — Terry McAuliffe

I think sometimes Richmond, especially the House of Delegates, thinks too small ... Richmond is not doing what needs to be done, forward thinking, big bold ideas. — Terry McAuliffe

I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life. — Terry McAuliffe

You help me, I'll help you. That's politics. — Terry McAuliffe

You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it. — Callan McAuliffe

I'm not a big fan of training, at all. I really don't like it. I've done a few acting classes and I've just hated them. I think they train you to do something, and sometimes you might not be able to break out of it. Acting is lying, and lying is acting. So, I just prefer to read the script and do it my own way. — Callan McAuliffe

I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing ... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.' — Callan McAuliffe

Space is going to be commonplace. — Christa McAuliffe

I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act. — Callan McAuliffe