I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I,' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.
There are more stakes [in Mary and Jane], which is always good.
Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.
Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.
Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.
I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.
Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile,. . But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.
Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.
[Gambling] is a perfidious passion. . . . It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. . . . it ends by setting your blood on fire, and to increase your chances of winning at any cost, your stakes increase frightfully; the desire of winning gets to be a madness. The soul gets sick; it neither sees nor hears anything. No family ties, position, nor fortune, can stand against this passion.
The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.
Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.
the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.
If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third.
For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high.
The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.
When the Champions League is at stake,. . . you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.
Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.
In order to succeed. . . you have to put a stake in the ground.