“I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing.” WritingYearsMightFeltBitsActingOffersFocusedBellsBugsStale Author:Mel Gibson
“What's changed? I'm a dad. That's fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit. You can watch a bug crawling around for minutes at a time--just sit and marvel at its complexity, the utter bugness of it. I've learned to do that again.” KidsGrowsBitsWatchesMinutesChangedDadFundamentalsComplexityI've LearnedBugsCrawling Author:Bob Weir
“The political bug first bit me was Malcolm Fraser's resignation from the Gorton Government.” FirstsGovernmentPoliticalBitsBugsResignation Author:George Brandis
“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
“I did not intend to be a writer. I first wanted to be a lawyer, like my father. Then I got bit by the bug of philosophy and wanted to be a philosophy professor. I went to graduate school and quickly discovered it was impossible for a woman in those days - this was the early fifties - to be a philosopher, so I gave that up.” FirstsPhilosophyWantedSchoolFatherBitsImpossiblePhilosopherLawyerProfessorsGraduatesBugsGraduate School Author:Alix Kates Shulman