The people I write are real to me, and basically, they tell me about their environments on a need-to-know basis.

- Ann Aguirre

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

- Bret Easton Ellis

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

- Bob Schieffer

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

- Ben Mendelsohn

I know that I basically have the same hair as Beaker from 'the Muppets.'

- Brad Goreski

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

- Bodhidharma

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

- Bodhidharma

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

- Bob Dylan

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

- Billy Corgan

I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I qualify as an intellectual. Basically, I'm an old-fashioned amateur.

- Anne Fadiman

When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins.

- Alain de Botton

As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.

- Alex Chiu

People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.

- Art Alexakis

I just looked like there was only one thing I could do: be in a band. It looked like I was already successful, basically. Which is what I wanted to do when I was 16. I just felt like if you did that, aesthetically you would just draw people who were doing the same thing.

- Albert Hammond, Jr.

'World War Z' is basically a big-budget B-movie.

- Annalee Newitz

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

- Anna Deavere Smith

Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good.

- Andy Samberg

Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.

- Albert Brooks

I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.

- Abhishek Bachchan

Basically, I live to do gigs.

- Amy Winehouse