“Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five feet of water, going to surf, and there was this big ol' freakin' leopard shark... I'm looking at him and I'm thinking, 'OK, he won't hurt me.” ThinkingBigsBeautifulWaterHurtClearFiveWeekFeetCoupleScareSharksHurt MeSurfLeopardsMalibuClear Day Author:Timothy Olyphant
“Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.” YearsFirstsSaidEnoughGuyThreeComedyWeekFeetShotsYeahMaking MoneyRanGatesThree YearsHad EnoughMisled Author:Al Franken
“If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.” PeopleIfsWritingWeekFeetMojo Author:William Hague
“I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out.” TwoCertainRolesDoorsWeekFeetRestaurantsTwilightTwo WeeksFlewHypePortland Author:Ashley Greene
“I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for "Six Feet Under", last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.” TwoWholeLastsHoursNumbersClassPracticeFourWeekFeetSixBalletSequenceBallet ClassSix Feet Under Author:Michelle Trachtenberg
“To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.” WayHas BeensArtPlayGovernmentArtistNightSpeakGrowsLibertyPiecesWeekFeetProveSixCrushCensorshipIntroducingFreedom Of SpeechOne NightBannedClumsy Author:Victor Hugo
“What comforted me? That is easy. It was a strong cold chicken jelly so very, very thick. My mother's Chinese cook would fix it. He would cook it down, condense it-this broth with all sorts of feet in it, then it would gell into sheer bliss. It kept me alive once for three weeks when I was ill as a child. And I've always craved it since.” ChildrenMotherThreeStrongEasyAliveWeekFeetFoodColdCookingIllChineseCooksBlissCulinaryChickensThickSheerJelly Author:James Beard
“I haven't exactly grown wings or anything. I'm happy with how I have been playing so far this week, but my feet are firmly on the ground. I haven't cured cancer or anything.” Has BeensWeekFeetHavensWingsCancer Author:Johanna Konta
“That is a gift to have four weeks to rehearse something. But remember, when you're doing a play half of that time you're getting to know the play and the other actors and then finally in the third week you have it pretty much on its feet. So it's all relative in different ways.” KnowsWayDifferentPlayRememberActorsHalfFourWeekFeetThirdsDifferent WaysRelativeRemember When Author:Jeff Fahey
“To be very honest with you, there were two big factors: One was that we were initially coming out in that week before Thanksgiving where both Twilight 3D and Happy Feet 2 are coming out.” TwoBigsWeekFeetHonestFactorsComing OutTwilightHappy Feet Author:Shawn Anthony Levy
“There's all these people involved, and it becomes this huge machine - it stops being just me making my own little songs for myself, or for the world. And it's hard to stop the machine. If you want to take time to write a record, they're like, "OK, tour through March, April, and June, then you can take a few weeks off to record in July before getting back on the road for the European festival circuit." After a while, I had to put my foot down.” PeopleIfsWorldWantWritingLittlesHardSongMy OwnRecordsWeekFeetHugeInvolvedMachinesMarchTake TimeFestivalsJuneAprilJulyCircuits Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“When you're in the middle of nowhere, when you're on this tiny little island, probably one of ten people ever to step foot on this island, it's taken you a week to get there by boat - and you step near to an albatross nest. It doesn't even look at you as the enemy. You get this great nature moment. Until you realize the albatross, along with the thousands of other winged albatrosses next to it, has constructed its nest of trash.” PeopleLooksLittlesMomentsNextRealizingStepsEnemyTakenWeekFeetMiddleTenTinyBoatIslandsTrashNestsMiddle Of NowhereAlbatross Author:Jeff Corwin
“In 2012, I was diagnosed with melanoma - skin cancer - and had to get surgery on my left foot. I was out for four weeks - no dancing, no walking, nothing! It was horrible, but it taught me patience and to never take for granted the simple things we have.” LeftSimpleFourWeekFeetTaughtWalkingSkinsDancingCancerHorribleGrantedSurgerySimple ThingsSkin CancerNever Take For Granted Author:Witney Carson
“I thought that I had a really healthy relationship with food, and I went home to my parents' house for a week because I cut my foot, and was recovering. I just ate loads, ate family meals, went along with group activities. And I realized how unhealthy my relationship actually is with food.” HomeHouseParentCuttingGroupsWeekFeetHealthyActivityI RealizedMealsLoadUnhealthyRecoveringHealthy Relationship Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“My dad really wanted to learn how to sail and, when I was 16, he became a quarter partner in this small, 24-foot trimaran.Three weeks a year, I'd go with him and we'd sail from Florida out around the Bahamas.” YearsWantedThreeWeekFeetDadMy DadPartnersQuartersSailFloridaBahamas Author:Travis Rice
“The first couple of weeks of filming were quite tricky for me to find my feet with the character [Maigret], which wasn't helped by the story that we were telling.” FirstsCharacterStoriesWeekFeetCoupleTricky Author:Rowan Atkinson
“I have a very close friend who is a brilliant clown, and I always wanted to do a show with him. So I did one year at La MaMa Theatre. I had not done stilts before that show, and I had about two weeks to learn how to do that, and they were just made with off-off Broadway money. The ones that I had in Rogue One were made by [Industrial Light & Magic]. So they were really easy. They were made with actual prosthetic feet on the bottom. They were athletic, in a way. I could run in them. There was a bounce to them that I could use.” WayYearsMadeTwoDoneUseShowsLightRunningWantedEasyMagicWeekFeetBottomTheatreBrilliantBroadwayClownAthleticMamaTwo WeeksBounceClose FriendsRoguesProstheticsStilts Author:Alan Tudyk