“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'” IfsHumansTwoIdeasPlayWholeMomentsRememberActorsBitsHoursAudienceImagineFrontsPleaseNormalMajorsToughCookingResponseMythOpeningProtectedAirportsStirringOnionsCarrotsHaresChopping Author:Bill Nighy
“I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't watch TV or read. It's a little bit of a ritual, and it's more enjoyable.” LittlesBitsWatchesFrontsTvsLittle BitStandingTreatsMealsRitualEnjoyableRefrigerators Author:Mark Morris
“For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters? And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.” FormOrderBitsImaginationCommonHalfSawsFrontsCreationDaughterFunctionCommon SenseAspirationDozenDelightfulFadedMultiplicityAmiableParlorScandalousDandy Author:Vera Nazarian
“I get the most starstruck around musicians. I get tongue-tied and don't know what to say. I'm so jealous of them. When you make a movie, you're constructing something - it's a little bit like making an album. But after musicians make an album, they get to perform it live and experience it in front of a crowd.” KnowsLittlesBitsFrontsLittle BitMusicianAlbumsCrowdsTongueJealousTiedTongue Tied Author:Judd Apatow
“I always want my shoes real clean. The front of my shoe is really like my personality, where off the court I'm kind of calm and kind of shy a little bit - low key. In the back, it's kind of crazy, just like me on the court. I love how both of my personalities are involved into the shoe.” WantKindLittlesRealBitsCrazyFrontsKeysPersonalityInvolvedLittle BitLowsCourtCleanShoesCalmLike MeShyLow Key Author:Derrick Rose
“With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even went on a six-week drama course, just to know a little bit about what that feels like.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsKindLittlesIdeasCoursesActorsBitsAbilityActingKnow HowWeekFrontsDramaDirectorsSixLittle BitBuiltCamerasGood IdeasClue Author:Paddy Considine
“Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.” WayLittlesSometimesBitsFrontsPhotographyLittle BitNewsPagesDryJournalistic Author:Chris Hondros
“When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating now, or you can let it cool and eat it bit by bit later one. Either way, you end up eating the whole thing. There's really no way around it.” WayEndsWholeBigsDiesBitsSadnessFrontsEatingHotBowlsOne You LoveSomeone You Love Author:Ralph Fletcher
“[On stereotyping:] It's the mind's way of processing a lot of information quickly. If we had to sort through every bit of data before making a decision, most folks would still be going out the front door when it was time to come home for the night.” IfsWayMindStillsHomeNightBitsDecisionDoorsFrontsInformationFolksDataComing HomeGoing OutStereotypeProcessingFront Doors Author:Fay Faron
“Performing onstage is all about reacting in a grand way. You're playing an arena of seventeen or eighteen thousand people and it's your job to make sure the person at the back feels as cool as the person all the way in the front. Being on stage is a bit of a façade. You get to walk out there and be the coolest version of yourself that you could possibly have imagined and then you come off stage and you're just like everyone else.” PeopleWayFeelsPersonsJobsBitsWalksStageFrontsThousandVersionsPerformingArenaEighteenReactingSeventeen Author:Justin Timberlake
“I never envisioned myself being a film star at all. Most people know that pro wrestling is a little bit of an accident for me. I never really had any real aspirations of being in front of a camera.” PeopleKnowsLittlesRealFilmStarsBitsFrontsLittle BitCamerasAccidentsAspirationWrestlingFilm StarsPro Wrestling Author:Roddy Piper
“Most writers, I'm afraid, live very boring lives sitting in front of a screen. However, having said that: every writer puts a bit of themselves into the characters to bring them alive.” SaidCharacterBitsAliveFrontsSittingBoringScreensBoring Life Author:Michael Scott
“When you're in doubt about the future and you're in doubt about how solid this thing is that you're laying your life and your soul on the line for, you will probably retract into yourself a little bit and think, No, there's only so much I can give to something that everyone doesn't believe in. There's been chipping away, people have been chipping away at it, so it's just you in the spotlight in front of all these people.” PeopleThinkingGivingBelieveLittlesHas BeensI CanSoulBitsLinesDoubtFrontsLittle BitYour SoulSpotlightChipping Away Author:Richard Ashcroft