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“When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know in this life. I want to be a rock star, don't you? It's a good thing to be, a rock star.”

Knows Want Stars Rocks Good Things This Life Sci Fi Conventions Closest Rock Star

Author:Nathan Fillion

“When I go to a show, all I really want is to hear a performance that sounds legitimate, and not just going through the motions. I'm not sure any amount of jumping up and down really persuades me in either direction.”

Want Shows Sound Amount Performances Not Sure Jumping Up And Down

Author:Dan Bejar

“When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.”

People Mean Realizing Born Dues Afghanistan Lottery

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.”

People Joy Community My Own Situation Streets Broken Walking Desperate More Time Tennessee Desperate Situations

Author:Steven Curtis Chapman

“When I go to American cities and speak to American audiences about Karachi, I am able to draw their own wonder and consternation about the cities they live in as an entry point to this other faraway, instant city.”

Speak Wonder Audience Instant

Author:Steve Inskeep

“When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.”

Thinking Want Feels Should Art Seeing Fronts Figures Painting Gallery Art Galleries

Author:James Frey

“When I go to an opera performance and sit there while people are cheering and shouting "bravo," I sometimes ask myself what exactly they're cheering about. And I even see myself as an artist who also knows how to enjoy other people's performances.”

People Sometimes Artist Enjoy Cheer

Author:Thomas Quasthoff

“When I go to another country, I try to be a big sponge and look at what the houses may look like and what colors predominate. I do not do research as much as just get ideas and ask people about things.”

People Trying Looks May Ideas Country Bigs Asks House Color Research Sponges

Author:Jan Brett

“When I go to art museums, I push a bag of midget carrots in a baby stroller, and it feels like the stuff on the wall is watching me. As a fatheresque person of curiosity, I feel misunderstood, but at least The Ducks know me.”

Art Curiosity Absurd Ducks Surreal Duck Duck Quote Museum Carrot

Author:Jarod Kintz

Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“When I go to Bali, when I come to India and travel and see different cultures. I make sure I'm involved in the world out there, creatively, culturally.”

World Different Culture Involved India Different Cultures Bali

Author:Donna Karan

“When I go to Batman movies, I always think, 'Man, I would like to be a bad guy in a Batman movie.' especially as they got darker when they go to the Christian Bale era.”

Thinking Men Christian Guy Eras Bad Guys Batman Movie

Author:Denis Leary

“When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things.”

Thinking Night Humanity Bed

Author:Sean Penn

“When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.”

Giving Night Asks Strong Teacher Bed Give Me Another Day Good Teacher Right Words

Author:Richard Simmons

“When I go to bed at night, I've got so much grease on my body I wear snow chains to hold up my gown.”

Body Night Bed Snow Chains Gowns Grease

Author:Phyllis Diller

Source: Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy

“When I go to bed, I ask God to give me one more day tomorrow. When I get it, I'm excited and grateful.”

Giving Asks Tomorrow Bed Give Me Grateful Excited One More Day

Author:Richard Simmons

“When I go to buy a book, I always ask if it is right for me at this time, something I need right now. I think a lot of people go out and buy books because they love to read. They read it really fast and then move on to the next book. I don't do that.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Book Moving Next Asks Right Now Love To Read

Author:Echo Bodine

“When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.”

Art Artist Culture Art Is Aspect Tradition Western China Contemporary Popular Culture

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“When I go to clubs, I dont have to wait outside.”

Waiting Clubs

Author:Fetty Wap

“When I go to dance clubs, I always dance with big girls, so we finish at the same time.”

Bigs Girl Clubs Big Girl

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“When I go to Europe or South America, they laugh at things that are totally different than what Americans would laugh at. It's just so crazy how we're so different in personalities with other people.”

People Different America Laughing Crazy Personality Europe South South America

Author:Mike Tyson

“When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.”

Littles Eye Artist Turns Sea Missing New York Europe Towns Farms Discontent Little Towns

Author:Norman Rockwell

“When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions, ... I become like a big kid again. We go on all the big rides at the theme parks or I stick them in go-karts where their feet can't quite reach the pedals. I think that if you can continue to have the child at heart you may grow old physically but you will stay young mentally.”

Ifs Thinking Heart May Children Bigs Kids Young Grows Feet Goes On Sticks Parks Theme Florida Nephew Niece Pedals Excursions Theme Parks My Niece Niece And Nephew Child At Heart

Author:John Barrowman

“When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.”

Hell Bribe

Author:John Webster

“When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.”

People Play Shows Culture Mass Appeals Japan Popular Culture Commercialization

Author:Matthew Sweet

“When I go to karaoke, I'm still the worst guy there.”

Stills Guy Worst Karaoke

Author:Mark McGrath

“When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.”

Giving Feels My Own Give Me Insight Altered My Own Life

Author:Josh Radnor

“When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.”

World Want Taken Another World

Author:Darren Aronofsky

“When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.”

Shows Audience Bonding Family Bonding

Author:Al Yankovic

“When I go to one of those singles dating parties I believe myself to be a bowl of fruit. When I talk to potential dates, I judge them by the smile in their lips, their smoothness of speech, and the whiteness of teeth; then I offer them the appropriate fruit, which is usually a lemon.”

Believe I Believe Party Judging Offers Speech Dating Fruit Lips Teeth Appropriate Bowls Lemons Singles Whiteness

Author:Amanda Holden

“When I go to peoples' houses I like to sneak into their bedrooms and try on their underwear.”

Trying God House Stupidity Bedroom Underwear Sneak

Author:Tom Clancy

“When I go to photograph somebody, they say, "What do you want me to do?" Those are the most frightening words in the English language. I want to say, "Please, go over into good light and do something unusual.”

Want Light Language Please Photograph Unusual Want Me Frightening English Language You Want Me Do You Want Me

Author:John Loengard

“When I go to places and do book tours, I don't really like doing traditional bookshops. It's nice to walk people through something instead of just standing up in a bookstore.”

People Book Walks Nice Standing Traditional Bookstores Bookshops

Author:Irvine Welsh

“When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.”

Ifs Want Giving Church Customs Rome Saturday Scandal Milan

Author:Ambrose

“When I go to school, I'm always happy because it's a normal kid thing.”

Kids School Normal Always Happy

Author:Jackie Evancho

“When I go to see live music I tend to want to really listen to it, so when people get up and dance it's really irritating.”

People Want Get Up Irritating Live Music

Author:Tony Blackburn

“When I go to see something I'm in, or my friends are in, it's like a home movie. When I just go to the movies and don't know anyone in it, then it's a real movie.”

Knows Real Home My Friends

Author:Laurie Metcalf

“When I go to set, I try to make it a warm, inviting and happy set. We're all coming to work creating something, hopefully, beautiful together.”

Trying Together Beautiful Hopefully

Author:Aaron Paul

“When I go to shows, I'm really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don't like it when a band tries to expose me to new stuff.”

Knows Trying Shows Song Stuff Band Hearing Looking Forward New Stuff

Author:Fred Durst

“When I go to sleep, someone wakes up to get their hustle on, that's why I get my 2 hours, their 2 hours and overseas 2 hours in. I'll make sure no one can catch me.”

Hours Sleep Wake Up Going To Sleep Hustle Catch Me

Author:Behdad Sami

“When I go to T-Mobile retail stores, I jokingly tell the employees that everybody between me and them is the enemy. In effect, what I mean is that in my paramilitary hierarchy, if I can hear them and they can hear me, everything will be fine. All we need to do is make sure the entire company understands that it's their job to pass information between us. And so far so good.”

Mean Enemy Employee

Author:John J. Legere

“When I go to teach, that's not my workout. It's my show. I'm 134 pounds - I'm a teeny thing. I work out 11/2 hours a day and eat 1,600 calories. I can't stray because I have to fit into these Dolfin shorts!”

I Can Shows Hours Teach Fit Work Out Pounds Workout Calories Shorts

Author:Richard Simmons

“When I go to the bathrooms, I cannot take off my pants as before; because there is a light continuously blinking like a camera, everyone says it is just an environmental friendly lighting. Well, I cannot really trust it and I am not taking the risk of circulating my naked photos around.”

Funny Internet Pants Joke Bathroom Camera Blinking

Author:M.F. Moonzajer

Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

“When I go to the beach, even the tide won't come in.”

Inspirational Beach Tides

Author:Phyllis Diller

Source: Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy

“When I go to the beach, my grandchildren try to make words out of the veins in my legs. That's why I still take the pill; I don't want any more grandchildren.”

Want Trying Stills Humor Funny Legs Beach Grandchildren Veins Pills My Grandchildren

Author:Phyllis Diller

“When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate.”

Sometimes Use Beauty Emergencies Entrances Parlor

Author:Phyllis Diller

“When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.”

Feels Running Joy Fall Can Do Cry Changed Arms Shoulders Wet Boston Marathon Weeping Boston Marathon

Author:Kathrine Switzer

“When I go to the cinema I watch all different kinds of films.”

Kind Different Film Watches Cinema Different Kinds

Author:Jason Statham

“When I go to the cinema, I want to have a cinematic experience. Some people ignore the sound and you end up seeing something you might see on television and it doesn't explore the form. Sound is the other picture. When you show people a rough cut without the sound mix they are often really surprised. Sound creates a completely new world. With dialogue, people say a lot of things they don't mean. I like dialogue when it's used in a way when the body language says the complete opposite. But I love great dialogue I think expositional dialogue is quite crass and not like real life.”

“When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes into the screening. So, when I'm working on a subject, I'm always looking for the element of surprise.”

I Can Happens Minutes Subjects Ten Elements Surprise Cinema Frustrated Because I Can Screening Element Of Surprise

Author:Sergio Leone

“When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.”

Feels Fighting Next Attitude Watches Arms Poison Tubes Passivity Clinic

Author:Christopher Hitchens

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