“If in the sex scene you happen to be naked in front of a lot of other people you've just got to put that aside, in the same way that you have to put that aside in a fully-clothed intense dialogue scene because you're entering into that particular imaginative state of play.” PeopleIfsWayStatesPlayHappensSexFrontsParticularSceneIntenseDialogueNakedEnteringImaginative Author:Geoffrey Rush
“The beauty of shooting on something that's not in front of an audience is that you can just cut out the times you're laughing. You can cut to the other person and try to use that moment, right before you break. There's an energy to those performances. There's a reason people were laughing. There was something very special. That little extra something was in that line delivery or in that improv, so you try to use that stuff.” PeopleTryingLittlesPersonsReasonMomentsUseEnergyStuffLinesBreakAudienceLaughingCuttingSpecialFrontsPerformancesShootingExtrasThat MomentDelivery Author:Ken Marino
“Some people choose to go on 'American Idol' or another singing contest, and some people choose to beat down barrooms before anyone even knows who they are, in order to get a fan base, so when they do get a record deal, they have that to put in front of a label.” PeopleKnowsOrderDealsRecordsFansFrontsGoes OnBeatsSingingLabelsIdolsContestsAmerican Idol Author:Jake Owen
“I want people to have their own visions for the dance. Some generations will sit back and relate to the music. And the young people ...they'll have the dance right in front of them.” PeopleWantYoungVisionGenerationsFrontsRelate Author:Judith Jamison
“You know I still get nervous speaking in front of people. Speaking reminds me of pitching in that way. No matter how much you prepare, there is always that anxiety to perform. Those butterflies. You learn to embrace that stress. Eventually you realize that stress is what pushes you to perform at your peak.... But man the roller coaster! I told myself that after my career was over I would live my life quietly, out of the public eye, with no chance of embarrassing myself in front of large groups of people. Yet...here I am!” PeopleKnowsMenWayStillsMatterEyeRealizingChanceCareersGroupsFrontsAnxietyStressEmbraceNervousButterflyLiving My LifeEmbarrassingPitchingHere I AmRoller CoasterCoastersPublic EyeLarge Groups Author:Jim Abbott
“People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.” PeopleFeelsSocialChanceSituationMissingFrontsExampleInsecureHumiliationExhibitsDominanceTeaseSubmissive Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.” PeopleIfsShowsSchoolNightHumanityEducationHalfMillionsGenerationsFrontsTaughtCollegeHundredPoliceLawyerSeatsWickedInstructionOppressedWorldlyNeglectedRespectableBourgeoisMy GenerationYoungstersFreshmanBartenderGiddyMidwifeLieutenantsSophomoreWorldly WisdomCollege Freshmen Author:H. L. Mencken
“I do sit-ups and push-ups at home, and that's about it. I have a gym card, but I never go there. It's a front. I pay for the membership every couple of years, thinking I'll be embarrassed enough to go. But every time I go, there's like people twice my age that look twice as good!” PeopleThinkingYearsLooksEnoughHomeAgePayFrontsCoupleCardsGymEmbarrassedMembershipPush Ups Author:Rachael Ray
“And meteorologists have nothing to tell people in Philo, who know perfectly well that the real story is that to the west, between us and the Rockies, there is basically nothing tall, and that weird zephyrs and stirs joined breezes and gusts and thermals and downdrafts and whatever out over Nebraska and Kansas and moved like streams into rivers and jets at and military fronts that gathered like avalanches and roared in reverse down pioneer oxtrails, toward our own personal unsheltered asses.” PeopleKnowsWellsRealStoriesMilitaryFrontsRiversMovedWestAssStreamsTallReverseBreezeJetPioneersKansasNebraskaAvalanchesReal StoryZephyrMeteorologists Author:David Foster Wallace
“I've talked in front of ... like... a lot of big business people about stuff I didn't even know.” PeopleKnowsBigsStuffFrontsBig Business Author:Ryan Lochte
“I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference.” PeopleFirstsSeemsDifferencesAudienceFrontsReactionsHeightCommentDrastic Author:Kaki King
“There is something about being a director where, for me personally, I get to . . . it's the closest I'll ever come to being able to be a stand up. And to use my particular sense of humor, and hear people laughing, without me having to stand up in front of an audience and tell jokes.” PeopleUseAbleAudienceLaughingFrontsParticularDirectorsJokesSense Of HumorClosest Author:Barry Sonnenfeld
“I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.” PeopleWayTryingFirstsYoungActorsMillionsAudienceFrontsCollegeAmbitionTheaterWho You AreBest WaySitcom Author:John Lithgow
“When you're making records, you develop, and so you hear the things you want to move away from. It stings a little, but you know, you gotta own it too. You've got to just go, "You know, I wasn't afraid to learn in front of people, so I give myself a little credit for not being afraid of anything."” PeopleKnowsWantGivingLittlesMovingRecordsFrontsCreditBeing Afraid Author:Neko Case
“Sneak out when things go good. It bothers me when people have good games and stand in front of their locker waiting for the media, then they have bad games and sneak out the back.” PeopleGamesWaitingMediaFrontsBotherSneakLockersBad Games Author:Derek Jeter
“I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.” PeopleWritingRealSongNamesEmotionHonestFrontsGet Up Author:Taylor Swift
“The idea of selling is a projection that people create about people that is more of a reflection of who they are than what is actually happening in front of them with the artist.” PeopleIdeasArtistFrontsHappeningsReflectionSellingProjection Author:Mark Ruffalo
“When you work in front of the people, either in a film or in television, the people who are in the room with you are not watching you work, they're working so you'd have to light a fire to get them to watch what you were doing.” PeopleLightFilmRoomsWatchesFireFrontsTelevision Author:Richard Dreyfuss
“Playing music in front of thousands of people never bothered me. It was only when I started putting on magic shows in front of a much smaller audience that I would begin sweating bullets, so I'm much more focused now.” PeopleShowsAudienceMagicFrontsFocusedBulletsBotheredPlaying MusicSweatingMagic Show Author:David Lovering
“It's magical thinking to imagine that the reason unspeakable things are being perpetrated by younger and younger people is that they've fallen under the influence of seductive, lascivious, prurient, and violent material in books, films, television. A great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.” PeopleThinkingBookReasonKidsFilmParentHoursDealsResponsibilityImagineInfluenceFrontsTelevisionMaterialsTypeViolentFallenCensorshipImagine ThatSeductiveUnspeakableMagical Thinking Author:John Irving
“I can't do exercises regularly because my schedule changes from day to day. I'm okay with hurting myself, like I'll lift something until it hurts, but I don't want to pass out or vomit in front of people.” PeopleWantI CanHurtFrontsExerciseOkayLiftsIt HurtsSchedulesDay To DayHurting Myself Author:Anthony Bourdain
“If you feel something artistic, you need to get it out of you, do it. You gotta get out and play in front of people. You can't stay in the bedroom, get out sooner rather than later. Use your gut instinct.” PeopleIfsNeedsFeelsPlayUseFrontsInstinctArtisticGutsBedroomGut Instinct Author:Chris Wyse
“Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.” PeopleFeelsChildrenFactsBodyLevelsFrontsBearsHusbandGreat ThingsWitnessKneesBreastsMy HusbandFeel BetterMake Me Feel Better Author:Patricia Heaton
“That's one of our biggest challenges is finding out how to do that. There are times when you have to scale back. You might be performing on a five-by-five stage in front of 12 people. That's an exaggeration but there are times when you have to turn the corner and do an acoustic set.” PeopleMightTurnsChallengesFiveStageFrontsFindingsCornersScalesPerformingExaggerationAcoustics Author:Alan Powell
“I used to stand in front of the mirror and listen to Hezekiah Walker all day. I thought I was a member of his choir and direct people that weren't there.” PeopleUsedFrontsMembersDirectMirrorsChoirWalkers Author:Mike Willis
“At the end of the day, I think everybody takes for granted that they get up, get out of bed every morning - just the mere fact that they can stand in front of the mirror and brush their teeth and get in their car and take off? A lot of people take their health for granted.” PeopleThinkingEndsFactsMorningCarFrontsBedMirrorsMereTeethGet UpGrantedThe End Of The DayEvery MorningBrushes Author:Brock Lesnar
“The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.” PeopleWholeLaughingFrontsCamerasMaking People Laugh Author:Zach Galifianakis
“I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the camera. Often what happens is, you'll get a newcomer in front of the camera and they'll freeze up or they imitate actors or other performances that they've admired and so they stop becoming themselves. And so my job as the director is just to always return them to what I first saw in them, which was simply an uncensored human being.” PeopleFirstsHumansRealHappensJobsActorsHuman BeingsSawsFrontsReturnBecomingDirectorsPerformancesCamerasAuthenticityFreezeNewcomers Author:Steven Spielberg
“Americans are finally coming to a point where they're accepting of religious criticism, is because George Bush is the first president who really put religion so front-and-center. He's the most Christ-y president we've ever had - and he is, not uncoincidentally, the biggest disaster we've ever had. I think even people who are religious don't like it shoved down their throat. I think people kind of get it on a certain level, that this is an antiscience administration, and we're living in a time where we can't afford to be antiscience - for environmental reasons, for educational reasons.” PeopleThinkingFirstsKindReasonCertainPresidentChristReligiousLevelsAcceptingFrontsCriticismEnvironmentalEducationalDisasterAdministrationThroat Author:Bill Maher
“In wrestling there are so many people inside and outside the ring, and it's so live, and it's this whole adrenaline thing. Whereas you move it into this more intimate thing, everything gets all quiet, someone says action, and you have to say the lines and make the words your own. It couldn't be any more different and it's weird sometimes trying to explain that to people. When I tell people that acting is much more terrifying to me than going out in front of ten thousand people, they don't quite believe it because for some reason that intimacy is just terrifying to me.” PeopleTryingBelieveDifferentSometimesReasonWholeActionMovingLinesActingFrontsThousandQuietTenRingsIntimacyIntimateWrestlingGoing OutAdrenalineInside And Outside Author:Dave Bautista
“No one can make fun of overweight people in front of me!” PeopleFunFrontsOverweight Author:Richard Simmons
“I've always enjoyed hiding behind these characters. It's a strange thing, you're more comfortable as a character than you are in life. I could stand up in front of, it doesn't matter how many people, as a character. But if I had to do it as myself and give a speech, I would be liquid.” PeopleIfsGivingMatterCharacterWould BeBehindsFrontsStrangeSpeechComfortableEnjoyedHidingLiquidStrange Things Author:Johnny Depp
“But basketball was always something I was good at, that I was passionate about. I just didn't have the confidence to play in front of people at the time, at that early age. Now, I feel like I'm ready to play in front of people and play on the big stage.” PeopleFeelsPlayBigsAgeStageFrontsReadyBasketballPassionate Author:Lil B
“Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets and riding the subways. You learn to develop a tough front if you live here, just in case you get into any kind of trouble and you need to talk your way out of it.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsKindCasesGrowing UpGrowingTroubleStreetsFrontsNew YorkStrangeWalkingHorrorToughMuseumsRidingSubway Author:Christopher Walken
“As a comedian, I can walk out in front of 5000 people and not worry about a thing. Not a thing, believe me. But to stand up a face a camera and crew of maybe 15 guys and get up tight about it - to me that's weird.” PeopleBelieveI CanFacesGuyWalksWorryFrontsCamerasGet UpComedianBelieve In MeCrew Author:Bill Cosby
“I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.” PeopleTryingSocialLinesFrontsSocial ChangeTrenchesGreat Respect Author:Jon Stewart
“Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my performance. I never had writers.” PeopleMadeStageFrontsPerformancesSaloons Author:Don Rickles
“Some comics get drunk before a show. I don't. When I get drunk, I don't want to stand in front of a bunch of people that I don't know. That does not sound comfortable. Why have all these people gathered? And why am I elevated and not facing the same way as everyone else? And what is this electric stick in my hand? I want a chair too!” PeopleKnowsWayWantDoeShowsHumorHandsFunnySoundFrontsComfortableSticksBunchDrunkChairsElectric Author:Mitch Hedberg
“Some people are happy when they are at the sea; I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books. It feels like the known place and also the beginning of a new adventure. It has that simultaneous paradoxical effect of making me feel absolutely calm and very excited.” PeopleFeelsBookKnownSeaEffectsFrontsAdventureStandingCalmExcitedShelvesParadoxicalSimultaneousNew Adventure Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Standup is tough; if you are going through a hard period in your life, it is very hard to get up in front of people and be the happy guy in the room.” PeopleIfsHardGuyRoomsFrontsPeriodsToughGet Up Author:Doc Brown
“Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years ago as their best defense. When you have in front of you flesh and blood people who are your brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, co-workers and neighbors and they love each other and they just want to go through life with someone.” PeopleWantYearsTwoCultureChurchBloodFrontsBrotherThousandYears AgoLettersWorkersDefenseNeighborFleshThousand YearsUnclesIrrelevantBrothers And SistersAuntLove Each OtherYour BrotherFlesh And BloodCo WorkerAunts And UnclesChurch Bells Author:Rob Bell
“You have to realize, when you're a comedian, that you have to have a thick skin. And trust me, being onstage in front of people is already difficult enough. Somebody's personal attack in an email is not as hard as getting onstage.” PeopleHardEnoughDifficultRealizingFrontsSkinsComedianThickEmailTrust MeThick SkinPersonal Attacks Author:Dane Cook
“I want to be as big as I can be. To me, being big is just playing in front of a lot of people. And that's my goal.” PeopleWantI CanBigsGoalFronts Author:Joe Armstrong
“Playing in front of millions of people erases everything I hate about myself. Nothing can hurt me.” PeopleHateHurtMillionsFrontsI HateEraseHurt Me Author:Gerard Way
“Racing's very much like the world of acting. You have your front runners and you have guys that are there for the long race, and you have other guys that block for other people, that are called supporting and character actors. It's all the same kind of situation.” PeopleWorldKindLongCharacterGuyActorsActingRaceSituationFrontsBlockRacingRunnersOther GuysCharacter Actors Author:Sylvester Stallone
“It's fun to be in a small club and to be able to look somebody right in the eye and watch them just freak. Then it's fun to be in front of thousands of people and watch a couple of hundred freaking out of their minds.” PeopleMindLooksEyeAbleFunWatchesFrontsCoupleHundredClubsFreakFreaking Out Author:Lou Reed
“I always just wait for the right material to come to me. Many times people ask, "What have you been up To?" Well, I'm here and working. Just not in front of the camera as much as I'd like to be.” PeopleWellsAsksWaitingFrontsMaterialsCameras Author:Larenz Tate
“I never have free time, I don't know about you. You ever go to the cash machine, there's two people in line in front of you and you get kinda flustered, you're like "Forget it! I'm not standing here for 40 seconds. I got things to do, okay?"” PeopleKnowsTwoHumorFunnyLinesForgetFrontsStandingOkayMachinesThings To DoSecondsCashForget ItFree Time Author:Jim Gaffigan
“A lot of people think that Jesus is coming back. That's fine, it's your right. But you know, I live in New York, and I think he's running a little late. I'm asking myself, 'Alright, what happens if Jesus comes back tomorrow? What - does he make rounds to churches?' 'OK, everyone who's been good, buses leave in 10 minutes. I'll meet you in front of the post office. I gotta go. Oh, don't tell the Jews I'm back.'” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsLittlesDoeHumorHappensRunningFunnyJesusChurchMinutesFrontsNew YorkFineTomorrowOfficeLateAskingRoundsJewPostsBusComing BackAlrightPost OfficeI'm Back Author:Marc Maron
“I don't need to get paid. I just wanna open. I just wanna get in front of new people.” PeopleNeedsFrontsPaid Author:Eric Hutchinson