Up Quotes
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Obviously, when you walk into a room and see people like Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman and Charles Martin Smith behind the camera, it's big time. You just try not to think about it, try and keep up, hold on for the ride.
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I think we need to do as much as we can to give back to these young kids growing up. I think we've done a pretty decent job so far.
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My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.
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I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.
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I was in a band called the valentines and they broke up last week.
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My favorite growing up was Bret Hart. I just idolized him when I was a child; he was my hero.
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I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and it makes it easier for a reader to go into a bookshop and choose, but as a writer, it helps to get rid of all of that and imagine you are a storyteller around a campfire.
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One of my biggest influences growing up was Jamie O'Brien. He was like an older brother to me.
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There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.
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I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.
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I knew I'd have to go to Paris eventually, and I didn't want to be the provincial kid who just turns up and says, 'I want to act.'
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I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up my act, being a Jewish girl from Long Island with a little bit of a trucker mouth. So I wore a gown and some high heels.
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Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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So many Hollywood actresses become successful and then just keep on going - they miss out on having a partner and a baby and end up lonely.
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I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.
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I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed that, somehow, an individual could choose whether or not s/he wanted to be a boy or a girl.
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I want to bulk up. I'm a skinny guy.
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You can't be glued in the '60s. Walking around, going up the pub or popping to Tesco in a hunting jacket.
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I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.
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Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.
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How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again!
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I look upon meself as... You take a band that's made up of arms, legs, bodies... I happen to be the piece that talks. And does all that area of it, you know? I'm also very easy to recognize; the darkie in the middle jumping around with the guitar, you know. Dat boy's got rhydm!!!
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It's the best feeling when you wake up and it's warm and cozy, and you don't have to go to work.
