“I'm one of those people who likes a good G-rated movie. So many of my favorite movies are G-rated. I think it's exciting to see a director really push the limits of how exciting a story can be told without ever crossing the G-rating line.” PeopleThinkingExcitingMy Favorite Author:Tom Angleberger
“What is exciting today is that with technology filmmaking has been democratized, and so many more people have access to making a film.” PeopleTodayFilmTechnologyExcitingFilmmaking Author:Julie Smolyansky
“My goal onstage is to always have people leave feeling that they received something very special, an inspired feeling that they can take with them and into their lives. That's what the artists I love have always done for me and that's what I have always admired and tried to emulate in my own performances. I still believe that music stands alone in its power to communicate "spirit", whatever that might mean to any given fan. It's a mystery and it's something I still find so exciting and challenging at the same time.” PeopleBelieveMeanDoneFeelingsSpiritArtistGoalChallengesMysterySpecialExcitingInspiredCommunicateStand AloneI Still Believe Author:Edward Kowalczyk
“I'm getting a little fed up with some of the pessimism that I'm hearing. I know some people who will not be convinced we've really won anything until the media changes. And that isn't gonna happen. They look at the media not liking Trump and they think it's failure. They look at the media ripping Trump and destroying him and they think it's gonna work and it means failure. And I get so fed up. I said, "Do you people not understand we're on the cusp here of one of the most exciting next four years?" The growth potential, the potential of putting America back together.” PeopleThinkingMeanTogetherGrowthExcitingPessimismFed Up Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I like getting feedback from people who show a lot of potential, and it's exciting to witness to new talents developing and bourgeoning. I always try to stay around the newest stuff, I don't like to stay with something that's kind of old or approaching it.” PeopleTryingKindTalentExcitingWitnessFeedback Author:A-Trak
“If you look at MMA, you don't have an amateur MMA. You have some of these young men like James Kirkland who had 140 amateur fights, I had 3. My skill level was I was just powerful as hell, I didn't know how to actually box in the beginning. I was just punching them, the skill level wasn't there. You will have one or two females that are really skillful, but who are they gonna box to get better. MMA is just more exciting because you kick and throw people on the ground and whatever. But people tuned into a fighter like me because I put people to sleep.” PeopleMenFightingSleepPowerfulHellFemaleExcitingFighterGet Better Author:Ann Wolfe
“As a child I loved fantasy books, I loved Harry Potter and the idea that there is something 'out there' is inspiring to kids and inspiring to me. It's exciting and I think people can relate to it. Even if things are difficult or bad for you, the idea that there is something special within you is positive and true.” PeopleThinkingChildrenBookKidsDifficultFantasySpecialExcitingHarry Potter Author:Alexandra Daddario
“I can only do it if there's humour, wit, comedy and drama. If you can get audiences laughing and then suddenly turn them to tears... it's a weird way of making a living making people cry, but I think it's very exciting to be able to send audiences on a rollercoaster ride.” PeopleThinkingAudienceLaughingComedyCryTearsHumourDramaExcitingWitRollercoaster Author:Nigel Cole
“I think it's really important to have inter-generational relationships right; some level of communication between us silver-backed gorillas, who have been looking at and working on these problems for years, and the next generation of problem-solvers. And it's happening. So it's a very exciting time because of it. And a lot of the young people I'm working with, it's very exciting. Their enthusiasm, the revolutionary nature of what they're doing, what they're being driven by.” PeopleThinkingImportantProblemCommunicationExcitingDrivenEnthusiasmRevolutionaryNext Generation Author:Brett Leonard
“I'm not really interested in playing famous people. I prefer to create characters. And I hope I have an exciting enough life that somebody might make a movie about that one day. I don't want to make movies about other people. I was once approached about playing Salvador Dali, which I thought would've been fun until I found out that he was proud of kicking a blind man across the street. So, I decided, I didn't want to play that guy. So, I think I'll just keep it the way it is.” PeopleThinkingMenEnoughCharacterGuyFunProudOne DayExcitingBlind Author:Nicolas Cage
“I just think that's more exciting. When people used to cut records live, there were mistakes all the time that stayed in. It was part of the charm. You're kind of missing something if everything is all doctored-up and clinical. So when we hear a mistake that sounds interesting, we make a point to keep it.” PeopleThinkingKindInterestingMistakeCuttingMissingExciting Author:John Britt Daniel
“One last important influence I'll mention is Flannery O'Connor. In high school I shoplifted her Complete Stories. Having read "Good Country People" for class, I really just felt a home in her work. I had little guilt about the theft at the time. I sucked in my stomach and shoved the book into my pants. It's very big. I can still feel how it cut into my body in the most exciting way. Clearly, I don't feel guilt-free about this crime anymore - I wouldn't be mentioning here, looking for some absolution if I did.” PeopleImportantBookCountryHomeSchoolCuttingInfluenceCrimeHigh SchoolExcitingGuilt Author:Samantha Hunt
“We've been growing our readership every month, and we're kind of like, where are they all coming from? This is wonderful! And I think one of the best surprises was that you hear so often that young women don't care about feminism, that young women don't identify as feminists. But really, the majority of our readers are young women. So to see so many young people kind of get involved and really take to Feministing.com was a really exciting thing.” PeopleThinkingKindCareWonderfulFeminismExcitingSurpriseFeministYoung WomenGet Involved Author:Jessica Valenti
“One of the things, and the most exciting, actually definitely the most exciting thing is, having children. You know, I didn't have children before. I had been married only a year before my space station mission, so having three-year-olds is a whole new experience and that's the new adventure. It may sound funny because people have kids every day, but having your own kids, having my own kids, was as fundamentally, or maybe even more fundamentally life changing then even flying in space.” PeopleChildrenKidsAdventureMarriedExcitingFlyingLife ChangingHaving ChildrenNew AdventureMy Space Author:Leroy Chiao
“Movies have gotten dull, the way network television got dull. And television, if we can still even call it that, is still really exciting and riveting and people are totally into it. I am always meeting people who have these favorite shows that they are completely wired too and not only have I never seen it but I don't even know how to find it.” PeopleExcitingMeetings Author:William Gibson
“Self-published media are really critical. It's so heartwarming that people are still doing it in this digital age. It's just really moving and exciting. You can't really replace a beautiful little mini-comic. It doesn't translate to the computer, you know? Handmade stuff has really given me hope for humanity.” PeopleAgeBeautifulMovingHumanityComputerExcitingTranslateHeartwarming Author:Alison Bechdel
“No one knew what Rococode was "supposed" to sound like. Now we have a sound and we have a good idea of what we want to create and the type of songs we want to present to people. I think it's really exciting, actually.” PeopleThinkingSongExciting Author:Laura Smith
“I'm definitely seeing more and more new people at shows, which is exciting. It's nice for me, because it's a fresh start. I don't feel as obligated to play old favorite songs - it feels like I'm free to try new things because I'm meeting people for the first time. But there's a lot of people who are showing up and they know all the words to the first album and they're requesting songs from the second album.” PeopleTryingSongNiceFirst TimeExcitingMeetingsFresh StartFavorite Song Author:Willy Mason
“When I'm improvising, I'm out of my head. I've done a lot of projects recently where there hasn't been a script. It's all been based on outlines. At first, that's terrifying, just because you don't have the words in front of you and you don't know how it's going to come out, but that's what's really exciting about it. You don't know what's going to happen. It really forces you to listen to the other people, and I think the most natural acting comes out of that.” PeopleThinkingDoneNaturalActingExciting Author:Dave Franco
“The women's choice of footwear doesn't speak for their most important inner life, but rather it tells a story - this is an opportunity to express themselves. I think the thing that's most compelling about other people is when you don't look like you're trying to dress like your friend, colleague, neighbor, or anything else. That's a very arresting and exciting and compelling quality to possess - not everybody has the courage to walk out the door feeling like themselves, but once they do, it's thrilling to witness.” PeopleThinkingTryingImportantFeelingsChoicesOpportunitySpeakQualityLike YouExcitingNeighborWitness Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“Boxing is what you make it. If you want to make it exciting, if you want to make it something where people are going to look and say, "Wow! Look at the guy. Who does he think he is?" You can do that. If you just want to go in there, punch each other, and then shake hands at the end of the night. You can do that, too. I know what I would rather pay money to see. Some people enjoy it, some despise it. Whether people like it or hate it, they still buy a ticket. We want boxing to be centre stage and you can't have that with guys who don't excite.” PeopleThinkingNightGuyHateEnjoyExcitingBoxing Author:Chris Eubank, Jr.
“The current state of music journalism is not bad, but it's not great at all. Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool. But there are too many magazines, and the access has been diminished, so the quality of profiles has gone way down. Internet stuff can be really good, though. I like the dialogue between fans on the Internet. I think that's the best rock writing that's going on right now.” PeopleThinkingWritingPassionQualityAudienceInternetExcitingPassionateRapDialogueJournalismProfile Author:Cameron Crowe
“I always love trying to put my arms around more people. As a designer, it's a great compliment when people wear your clothes or buy your products, so to do things that are more affordable and have more of a distribution is always very exciting - especially when I can still bring my personality in complete, heavy doses. It's not a diluted version of me; it's a very clear extension of my personality.” PeopleTryingPersonalityExcitingDesignerComplimentAffordable Author:Jeremy Scott
“I've been working in computer animation for 25 years. I'm obviously a devotee of the technology. I just think it's the one aspect of the medium that's going to continue to revolutionize the filmmaking. It's constantly changing and it's constantly opening up new possibilities. The technology is evolving where 2-D animation was ultimately limited by how long you could pay how many people to make a movie. I mean computers, not that it's in anyway a labor saving device, but it promises to open up exciting new technical possibilites.” PeopleThinkingMeanLongTechnologyPossibilityPromiseComputerLaborExcitingEvolveFilmmakingAnimation Author:Chris Wedge
“It's exciting to me that people know that I'm someone who's very political.” PeoplePoliticalExciting Author:Kerry Washington
“Making clothes that everybody can wear is also something that stimulates me a lot, because I have this edgy, fashion-y part, but I am also totally involved with a brand that is about how people dress, and what they want. And it's a whole other look you can have on the street. It's exciting because it speaks to the other part of my job and what my passion is. A designer wants to make something useful for as many people as possible.” PeoplePassionSpeakExcitingDesignerMy Passion Author:Olivier Theyskens
“I think sometimes people become quite emotional about the characters as well, and that's pretty cool that you can get that emotion out of people. And I think that's more my motivation than like, "Hey I want to be the funny guy, I want to be that famous funny guy." That doesn't sit as well with me as the idea of taking people on this ride and taking them into the illusion of the characters. That's much more exciting for me.” PeopleThinkingSometimesCharacterMotivationGuyEmotionEmotionalIllusionExcitingFunny Guy Author:Chris Lilley
“I think New York is much more focused on what you're doing. You have to try harder to make sure you have balance in your life. I love New York. It's so exciting. There's so many interesting people here. I just feel like anything can happen. You can make so much happen quickly here. I love it.” PeopleThinkingTryingInterestingBalanceExcitingFocusedAnything Can HappenI Love New York Author:Tiffany Shlain
“I always wanted to have a young female artist that would tell me the truth about life and not only talk about the good things or the things that were exciting or interesting but also talk about the things that people in general are skeptical to talk about- the bad things that do happen. A good 50% of our lives is things that are happening that we're not necessarily super thrilled about and I feel like that's missing from pop music a lot of the time so my main goal is to be truthful about everything and not just specific things.” PeopleArtistGoalInterestingMissingFemaleExcitingGood ThingsTruthfulSkepticalPop MusicBeing TruthfulTell Me The Truth Author:Beatrice Miller
“I think it's a total fallacy for people to say, "You couldn't make those old movies today." I think there's more ways to get a movie made today than ever in the history of the entertainment industry. It's a very exciting time to work in movies, if you're a creative person looking to make a very personal, weird vision.” PeopleThinkingTodayVisionCreativeExcitingFallacyOld Movie Author:Edward Norton
“For me, I enjoy intimidating people and I enjoy being intimidated. It is exciting. It's cool to have an experience with someone where you challenge them, and they are afraid, and then they love you and they've grown. When that happens to me, I feel so blessed if somebody has opened my world up a little bit more.” PeopleWorldEnjoyChallengesLove YouExcitingBlessedIntimidatingIntimidated Author:Ottessa Moshfegh
“The clubs usually enforce no filming of performances pretty well. I want to know that what I'm doing is in the here and now and it's mine. I absolutely want control over my performances. And it is actually scary to see someone filming you without permission. Like Big Brother is watching. All these cameras don't make up for a life that isn't well-lived! I agree that people don't live in the moment, they instead live to make a name for themselves as "people who are living exciting lives and at great events".” PeopleMomentsBrotherExcitingAgreeScaryLive In The Moment Author:Eddie Pepitone
“I think people like difference. When you walk out the door in New York City, in a mixed-use neighborhood like the Village, you see exciting things! "Oh, this store is closing, that store is opening." And especially if it's not a chain store, then it is interesting because it is unique in some way. The small-scale familiar is also very comforting. Especially in the twenty-first century, when the world is rapidly changing and there are many risky situations, I think we need to build on and protect the comfort that we have in our neighborhoods in a way that does not exclude others.” PeopleThinkingWorldInterestingSituationComfortProtectUniqueExcitingFamiliarNeighborhoodComforting Author:Sharon Zukin
“That was exciting to be able to comment on civil rights. I mean, the civil rights movement that young people don't know about today, but Martin Luther King was considered by the establishment press in the early years of the sit-in movement as a dangerous man, and he was the equivalent at that time as Malcolm X. And he was told to stop his demonstrations; they were against the law and all of that. Now that he's sainted and sanctified we've forgotten.” PeopleMenMeanTodayDangerousExcitingForgottenCivil RightsCommentLutherCivil Rights Movement Author:Jules Feiffer
“And all the things I thought were mistakes and I did cartoons on them. And then I think I was the first cartoonist in the country to attack the war in Viet Nam and that helped influence a whole generation of young cartoonists who later on took up the battle. And that was exciting to know that I had helped influence work of young people who were moving this forum into a better and more exciting area, out of the more by the state that political cartooning had been in.” PeopleThinkingWarCountryMovingPoliticalMistakeInfluenceBattleExcitingCartoonCartoonist Author:Jules Feiffer
“Coming at the acting business as a technician, I really enjoy the process of working. I really enjoy being in a rehearsal room, starting a theatre piece for the first time. I really enjoy shooting in front of the crew, and I really love going on location. I think all that is just so exciting. So I've never really been drawn into the fame of being an actor, which in L.A., is part and parcel of the deal. I think for a lot of people, especially kids, it's hard to not get wrapped up in the world of the perks that the job brings.” PeopleThinkingWorldKidsEnjoyActingFameFirst TimeExcitingTheatreParcel Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“As an artist it's exciting to know that you've made someone's life decision after them listening to your song. To get married or un-married, when you realize that people are listening it brings a feel of responsibility that can't be ignored or denied. There's someone watching us. Whether an artist wants to admit that or not.” PeopleArtistSongRealizingDecisionResponsibilityListeningMarriedExcitingIgnoredLife Decision Author:Kelly Price
“The best moments of my working life are when I find people who are passionate about what they do. That happens a lot in film, and it's an exciting experience that creates its own energy. I think that underlying care and passion is key in any successful company.” PeopleThinkingMomentsCareFilmPassionEnergySuccessfulExcitingPassionate Author:Hanan Kattan
“I think when you're young and you get together with a group of guys who think like you and you start to make something that moves you as a group of people and you have a common goal, that's an exciting time. The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business. In my opinion young bands have a shelf life and it ranges in time.” PeopleThinkingKindTogetherMovingGuyGoalCommonOpinionLike YouExcitingHopefully Author:Greg Dulli
“I say as long as the individual stays creative and continues to come up with fresh new and exciting ideas, rap will be here. That's established. Simple. As far as what I want to do, I want to get busy, man. I want to rock 60,000 people. I want to rock the Superdome.” PeopleMenLongIndividualSimpleCreativeExcitingBusyRap Author:LL Cool J
“I'm not very good at doing two things at the same time. I've never been good at the walk and bubblegum thing. I've been doing this 16 hours a day. I haven't had a day off. But it's very exciting, too, just to meet all these people doing really fertile stuff. It's sort of where I come from anyway, hanging out with people who believe in something incredible.” PeopleBelieveHoursExcitingIncrediblesVery GoodHanging Out Author:Bjork
“By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.” PeopleImportantSchoolYoungModelsStandardsTestsExcitingMethodFactorsEducatedAccountabilityUrbanBusiness ModelsSuccess Or Failure Author:Jonathan Kozol
“Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.” PeopleSocialExcitingClockEnjoyableClock Is Ticking Author:Alan Ball
“'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.” PeopleWantWarFunStarsExciting Author:George Lucas
“'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters; to trust characters and hate other characters, but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling in my book.” PeopleBookDifferentCharacterHateBlackTheoryExcitingDebateStorytellingAllegianceOrphanDifferent Characters Author:Tatiana Maslany
“I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.” PeopleIfsLittlesYoungCareersExcitingTheaterDowntown Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov
“If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks, it's not the end of the world. It's cool, it's fun, it's exciting.” PeopleIfsWorldEndsFunExcitingEnd Of The WorldStarbucksTaking Pictures Author:Cory Monteith
“People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.” PeopleGirlFashionExcitingComplimentSpicesSpice Girls Author:Victoria Beckham
“If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.” PeopleIfsKnowsKindWarSometimesRunningSoundExcitingChaosCrowdsRidiculousZoneChasingLiteralWar Zones Author:Robert Pattinson
“We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.” PeopleWellsTwoFoundCompanyEnvironmentToughExcitingEnvironmentalTreatedExcellentTwo ThingsNailsSupportiveRebellious Author:Tom Peters