“You are [as an actor] aware that you don't want to repeat stuff, but you want to use what has worked. But you don't want to be accused of just going over the old thing, you know? You want it to start growing a little bit more.” KnowsWantLittlesUseActorsStuffBitsGrowingLittle BitRepeatsAccusedOld Things Author:Jude Law
“Every time, I reaffirm in myself that the more comfortable you are, the less you are creating. You have to feel a little bit of pain in the creation.” FeelsLittlesPainBitsCreationComfortableCreatingLittle Bit Author:Antonio Banderas
“In every career, you are balancing or negotiating tricky waters. But, I think that's been something nice that comedy has been able to give me a little bit more. I have the ability to laugh at myself and hopefully not take all of this whole world too seriously.” ThinkingWorldGivingLittlesHas BeensWholeAbleBitsWaterAbilityCareersLaughingComedyNiceLittle BitGive MeWhole WorldHopefullyTrickyNegotiatingHopefully Not Author:Anna Faris
“I am a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking mostly Thai food. And a lot of times on movies, you have these trailers that have these little ovens and kitchenettes. A lot of actors never use them, but I would cook lunch just about every day.” LittlesUseActorsBitsCookingCooksLunchChefTrailersOvensGourmetThaiCooking LoveThai Food Author:Will Ferrell
“I don't come from a particularly musical family. My mother learned a bit of piano in Korea. When I was three, I apparently climbed up on our upright piano and started picking Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star out.” LittlesMotherThreeStarsBitsMusicalPianoKorea Author:Charlie Albright
“I always loved horror as a kid. On the one hand, I really love monsters, because in a way I feel like I related to their outsider status and like the sentimental romantic plight of the monster. More importantly though I feel like people are completely motivated by fear, especially with our political system here in America which is just degenerating into more and more fear mongering and it gets in the way of real discourse, plus it's just something I'm obsessive about and have always been a little bit of a paranoid guy.” PeopleWayFeelsLittlesRealHandsKidsAmericaPoliticalGuyBitsHorrorLittle BitMonstersRelatedPlusMotivatedOutsidersDiscourseSentimentalObsessivePolitical SystemsParanoidPlightFear Mongering Author:Larry Fessenden
“The range of genre that we is very diverse, which makes for a fun and multi-dimensional show, but creating something that flows, depending on what kind of vibe the show is going to be [loud dive bar, small theatre, festival] is a bit of an art a haphazard art at times.” KindArtShowsFunBitsCreatingFlowTheatreBarsGenreRangeLoudDiverseFestivalsCreating SomethingHaphazard Author:Sarah Burton
“The integration of Europe was very much led by a Germany that was always willing to pay a little bit extra to reach a compromise that everybody accepted, because Germany was so eager to get European support for reunification. That was called the "farsighted vision," which created the European Union.” LittlesBitsPayVisionSupportWillingLittle BitEuropeUnionsAcceptedCompromiseExtrasGermanyIntegrationEuropean UnionReunification Author:George Soros
“I think everything needs to be played real, for reality's sake, for truth. And that is the drama and the comedy. When you do that, it's funnier. And when you do that, you really do hit the emotional beats. I do it the same way as I do a drama. I just play it for truth, and then maybe have a little bit of fun with it sometimes.” ThinkingWayNeedsLittlesRealSometimesPlayRealityFunBitsComedyEmotionalDramaLittle BitBeatsSake Author:Jennifer Lopez
“I'm not a grunter, I'm relatively quiet. There's a little bit of breathing out. Some people get really loud! There's a little bit of psyching up sometimes, if you're going for a really heavy weight you might make a little noise, but when lifting, I try and keep it quite quiet - I'm not a fan of male noise in that way to be totally honest. I think when girls do it it's not as bad, but when guys do it it's just like, 'Come on mate, hold it in!'.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayTryingLittlesSometimesMightGuyGirlBitsFansHonestQuietLittle BitWeightMalesHeavyNoiseBreathingLoudMatesGet RealLiftingHeavy Weights Author:Greg Rutherford
“I think if you're not going to look so daft walking down the street split your workouts a little bit.” IfsThinkingLooksLittlesBitsStreetsWalkingLittle BitSplitsWorkoutDaft Author:Greg Rutherford
“My style is neither casual nor academic, it's somewhere in between. For me, that's the best way to be succinct and informative but still (I hope) at least a bit entertaining.” WayStillsBitsStyleBest WayAcademicEntertainingCasualInformative Author:Joel McIver
“I ask myself whether Russia is moving in the direction of democracy. I don't believe it is! Bit by bit, Russia is slipping back into an authoritarian empire.” BelieveMovingAsksBitsDemocracyDon't BelieveRussiaEmpiresSlippingMoving In Author:Vladimir Sorokin
“You're creating music to pull people into a world, whether it be a visual medium where music is just one element, or a purely musical medium. Either way, you're trying to transport people and to create a connection. I've always felt that the best films and the best albums can be the best company. If people feel a little bit less alone because of something I had a hand in creating than I feel like I'm contributing to the world in a positive way.” PeopleIfsWorldWayFeelsTryingLittlesHandsFilmFeltBitsCompanyElementsCreatingLittle BitMusic IsConnectionsMusicalAlbumsMediumsVisualsJust OneBeing The BestTransportContributingBest FilmCreating MusicBest Company Author:Andrew Hollander
“I try my jokes onstage. The only way to really find out if something is going to work is to try it on stage, and I try to be careful and bookend something new with a strong bit before and a strong bit afterwards. But it's fun to run on virgin snow. I like that feeling onstage of creating new footprints and not knowing what's going to happen.” IfsWayTryingFeelingsHappensRunningStrongFunBitsKnowingStageCreatingJokesCarefulSnowSomething NewBe CarefulNot KnowingVirginsGoing To WorkFootprintBookends Author:Brian Regan
“A lot of the clothes out are very adult-driven and it would be cool if they were a little bit more fun and trendy. Clothes should be fun.” IfsShouldLittlesWould BeFunBitsLittle BitClothesAdultsDrivenBeing CoolTrendy Author:Britney Spears
“I'm always anxious when it comes to my kids. This always makes me feel very vulnerable. Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama, you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.” ThinkingWantFeelsSometimesKidsBitsMomGuiltyVulnerableAnxiousMama Author:Carine Roitfeld
“All of us want the same things. We want to be good to the people around us and for our lives to have meaning. For me that means making the world a little bit easier for women.” PeopleWorldWantMeanLittlesBitsOur LivesEasierLittle BitBe Good Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“I wouldn't want to promote teenage girls having sex. But the reality is, it's happening, and they're just a little too young to understand how careful they need to be. That's a big battle with me, because I'm 23, and a lot of my fans are eight years younger than I am, so there's a bit of a tug-of-war there. I want to set the right example and, at the same time, live my life.” WantNeedsYearsLittlesWarBigsRealityYoungGirlSexBitsFansExampleBattleHappeningsCarefulEightTeenageLiving My LifeHaving SexTeenage GirlTug Of War Author:Rihanna
“I'd feel a little bit dead inside, if I didn't have dancing. It's such a way of expression and exercise and life and love. You laugh, when you're being corny and dorky-dancing. It's everything.” IfsWayFeelsLittlesBitsLaughingLove YouExpressionExerciseLittle BitAnd LoveDancingLife And LoveCornyDorky Author:Julianne Hough
“I remember when I was being told about Watergate, and I thought, "Oh, America is not what I think America is." But America is what I think it is. It's just that it's two bits of it, and I don't go with the Republican bit of it. I go more with the Democratic bit.” ThinkingTwoAmericaRememberBitsRepublicanDemocraticRemember WhenWatergateTwo Bit Author:Eddie Izzard
“From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's a wide band in the middle of people who respond to various stimuli. A little bit here, a little more there.” PeopleLittlesAgeBitsMiddleBandLittle BitVariousWideHomosexualPercentagesStimulus Author:Gore Vidal
“Sometimes you'll see interviews about an actor who was asked to hit the weight room to develop his body for the character, and you hear them complaining about the egg white omelettes they had to eat and the tortures of hitting the gym twice a day - I find that to be a bit saddening, it's all a part of becoming the character and as an actor, that is your job.” SometimesCharacterBodyJobsActorsBitsWhiteRoomsBecomingWeightComplainingTortureInterviewsEggsGymHittingWeight RoomSaddening Author:James Preston Rogers
“Becoming an actor has really helped me as a human being. The joys in my life I feel are more joyful, and the sorrows I feel are a bit sadder, but I find I'm more in tune with my feelings as a human being and others as well.” FeelsHumansWellsFeelingsJoyActorsBitsHuman BeingsBecomingSorrowTunesJoyful Author:James Preston Rogers
“By helping others, we make ourselves better, and by helping others heal, we heal ourselves. I think we can do that on an individual level and a worldwide level. I hope people have a chance to give that a little bit of thought.” PeopleThinkingGivingLittlesHelpingIndividualBitsCan DoChanceLevelsLittle BitHelping OthersHeal Author:Charles Martin Smith
“I'm an actor, I do movies, and I need to find somebody who enjoys that kind of stuff. It's not like, "Oh, I have my work time, and we go on a date, and it better be darn fun and exciting!" I think it should all coalesce a bit more.” ThinkingNeedsShouldKindActorsFunStuffBitsEnjoyGoes OnExciting Author:James Franco
“When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age.” FirstsKidsAgeYoungBitsActingWatchesSeeingTasteCamerasPopsBugsYoung AgeHarlem Author:Tracy Morgan
“Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do the whole thing every night, be it two hours or three hours. In film you work in two or three minute bits and it's never in chronological order and then someone takes that away and makes it look like it all happened, or that you gave that performance.” PeopleLooksTwoWholeFilmNightOrderThreeBitsHoursHappenedGroupsMinutesPerformancesTheatreEvery Night Author:Kevin Spacey
“If you really take a step back and observe people who are considered super-normal and watch them a bit, you'll realize that they're actually completely out of their minds! Most people are really nuts, and that's fascinating.” PeopleIfsMindBitsRealizingStepsWatchesNormalFascinatingNuts Author:Johnny Depp
“I like characters that are fragile and a little bit on the edge .” LittlesCharacterBitsLittle BitEdgesFragile Author:Zach Galifianakis
“I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.” PeopleLittlesFunBitsLittle BitScreensSympatheticKnack Author:Michael Caine
“I can never tell what's going to end up being on an album until it's all finished. I'm reading the news everyday, and sometimes I just have to be away from it. And that ends up writing the songs for me a little bit.” WritingLittlesI CanEndsSometimesSongReadingBitsLittle BitNewsEverydayAlbumsFinished Author:Jack Johnson
“I'm now a pretty good mix of my mother and my stepfather because I'm in general pretty mellow. I'm not hyper-emotional. But there's also this side of me - my mother was an artist and very funny and a dancer and very wild and into fashion. My stepfather traveled a lot, and I kind of took on a role of parenting my mother a lot of times, because she was pretty hard to handle. A bit of a pistol.” KindHardMotherArtistBitsSidesRolesFashionEmotionalHandleDancerTraveledPistolsHyperMellowStepfathersHard To Handle Author:Tig Notaro
“If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.” IfsKnowsWantShouldHumansLittlesBitsHuman BeingsPsychologyLittle Bit Author:Marjane Satrapi
“Irish is harder to pull off. I know southern people and I really like the midwest, so I can tap into that a little bit. It's easier to sound angry with southern than it is Irish. Yelling Irish you can sound like an angry Leprechaun. I think me screaming like I am going to kill you in Irish doesn't work.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLittlesI CanBitsSoundEasierLittle BitHarderAngrySouthernYellingMidwestLeprechaun Author:Norman Reedus
“Whenever you get a bunch of guys that are funny or think they’re funny, when you first meet, there’s always a lot of bits and it’s never, ever, ever funny. So basically you have to get through the awkwardness.” ThinkingFirstsGuyBitsBunchAwkwardness Author:Chris Jericho
“I'm a guy who is a little bit complicated and is a little bit in his own head and is not the most free-spirited, fun-loving kind of guy.” KindLittlesGuyFunBitsLittle BitComplicatedSpiritedFun Loving Author:Jason Bateman
“Having a belief in God, being able to find joy, despite your circumstances or put yourself outside of yourself, and stop looking inwards and look outwards a little bit really helps to carry through tough times. Giving makes you feel better.” GivingFeelsLooksLittlesHelpingAbleJoyBeliefBitsCircumstancesLittle BitToughDespiteFeel BetterTough TimesBelief In God Author:Queen Latifah
“My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa.” PeopleIfsWantI CanDifferentFeelingsActorsBitsActingCreativeStageSingingCrossesVicesDefinedConfinedVice VersaCerebral Author:Orlando Bloom
“I think the greatest gift actually acting is that I have a true fascination and love for people, and the way they are, and all the choices they made in life and all the different paths they took. I feel like acting gives me an opportunity to dig a little bit into that. That's great because it's eye-opening and it makes you an open person.” PeopleThinkingWayGivingFeelsLittlesPersonsMadeDifferentEyeChoicesOpportunityBitsActingPathLittle BitAnd LoveGive MeOpeningFascinationGreatest GiftsEye OpeningDifferent Paths Author:Wes Bentley
“There is a growing awareness that we're losing our technological competitive edge. I think there's an awareness that we're losing our leadership, and that maybe our self image over the past several decades has been a little bit delusional.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensSelfPastBitsGrowingAwarenessLittle BitLosingEdgesDecadesTechnologicalOver The PastDelusional Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I always loved acting, but it's weird to think what I'd be doing if this hadn't come around. It's kind of a bit of a fluke how I got into it, so I'm grateful.” IfsThinkingKindBitsActingGratefulFlukes Author:Rupert Grint
“With people in corsets you need, an hour and a half in you have to give somebody something, you have to have those trays with a little bit of fruit going around or something because you get that blood sugar [dropping] thing, so it's curious because that's in your mind at the same time as you're about to say, 'I think it's about the humanity and the depth of feeling and we need to feel [Cinderella] soul expand and by the way, more cheese for the people in the back.'” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsGivingFeelsMindLittlesSoulFeelingsHumanityBitsHoursHalfBloodLittle BitFruitDepthCuriousSugarCheeseDroppingCorsetsTraysBlood SugarDropping Things Author:Kenneth Branagh
“On the basis of being a woman, by playing an alien, I avoid playing someone's girlfriend here on Earth because that's a bit of a canker sore.” EarthBitsBasesAliensGirlfriendBeing A WomanPlaying Someone Author:Zoe Saldana
“There's a lot of time sitting in movies, so you can put alligators in people's trailers in your spare time. So it [making a film] moves slower, which in some ways is great, because you can live with a scene and invest in it a lot. And in some ways it's hard, because sometimes you can start to lose your energy a little bit, but both are fun.” PeopleWayLittlesSometimesHardFilmMovingEnergyFunBitsLosesSceneLittle BitSittingSparesTrailersSpare TimeAlligators Author:Mary-Louise Parker
“The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have more life to reflect on. And I think that if I am better now - and I think that I am probably better than I was - is because that I simply have more to think about, more to get under control, more to understand.” IfsThinkingBitsPoetGreat ThingsBetter Now Author:Clive James
“for me the most fun of my career is to bring a little bit of irreverence to characters. And, you know, I don't think that the producers were expecting me to be as irreverent as I am.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesCharacterFunBitsCareersLittle BitProducersExpectingIrreverentIrreverence Author:Dean Winters
“I'm like any other woman - my weight fluctuates. I have a pair of jeans one size bigger than the other just in case that week I'm a little bit heavier.” LittlesBitsCasesWeekLittle BitWeightBiggerSizePairsJeans Author:Cheryl Cole
“Having spent all of my teens and my twenties partying hard (very hard) then working the next day, I can assure you that losing bit of sleep to feed the thing you love most in the world is not a chore at all. Since having a baby I am better rested than ever. Sure, I can't party any more but I don't need to. Because I am happy.” WorldNeedsI CanHardNextBitsSleepPartyBabyLosingTwentiesTeensNext DayChoresHaving A BabyThings You Love Author:James Mullinger
“When we sit down to draw or paint the sun's rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you're left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.” LittlesUseLightLeftBitsMorningSunLittle BitDrawsRedBluePaintEveningRaysYellow Author:Bill Nye