“It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm a real defensive person, because if you were sensitive in my neighborhood you were something to eat.” PeopleIfsPersonsTwoRealFrontsEasierThousandSensitiveNeighborhood Author:Richard Pryor
“I was a 36C or D, and at 5' 1'', I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in front of an audience was not going to be easy. It would be really hard to get people to pay attention to me without mocking me. Getting a breast reduction to prepare for my career was no different from people who work to get good grades to get into a good college to get into a good graduate school to get a good job. I went down to a B cup, and it was the best thing in the whole world.” PeopleWorldPersonsDifferentHardWholeBigsWould BeSchoolJobsEasyPayAttentionCareersAudienceFrontsCollegeStandingWhole WorldCupsPay AttentionBest ThingsGradesBreastsGraduatesGood JobReductionGraduate SchoolGood GradesGood CollegeSmall Person Author:Janeane Garofalo
“I guess in my house when I was growing up, I was comfortable trying to be funny. And my dad, of course, it bugged him sometimes. He was trying to rest, and I was constantly trying to say something stupid to get a reaction. But I like doing these movies. You can do it in front of the camera and then it's over. I don't have to worry about being in front of too many people.” PeopleTryingSometimesCoursesHouseCan DoWorryGrowing UpGrowingFrontsStupidDadComfortableCamerasMy DadReactionsYou Can Do It Author:Adam Sandler
“I played Winnie the Pooh in first grade. I was an early adopter of standing in front of people and looking like an idiot.” PeopleFirstsFrontsStandingIdiotGrades Author:Jon Hamm
“[In comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual stories for each character, and then you do this sort of comedy geometry, weaving them together. Once you've got a funny structure and you know why the scenes are funny, then you get super funny people to say your own lines, say their own lines, say things in their own way, and every scene is a live rewrite in front of the camera.” PeopleKnowsWayWantNeedsCharacterStoriesTogetherActorsIndividualLinesComedyFrontsSceneCamerasStructureCome UpDryHanging OutGeometryWeavingFunny PeopleSuper Funny Author:Jeff Schaffer
“I don't like writing in front of a lot of people, it has to be an intimate experience with people I trust.” PeopleWritingFrontsIntimate Author:LIZ
“How come Mom is crazy and I'm not? Well, it's possible my mom could stand up in front of this many people and talk about all the crap in her life and those people could have sat around and laughed with her, it would've meant nothing and she could have moved on cool. It's also possible she could have taken out the whole front row with a large-caliber weapon.” PeopleWellsWholeTakenCrazyFrontsMomWeaponsMovedMy MomSatLaughedCrapMoved OnCaliber Author:Christopher Titus
“It’s been a very old thing for people to gather together and laugh at stuff. The first comedian in America really was Abraham Lincoln. He used to go to a pub near where he lived and stand in front of the fire and he packed the place every night and he would just talk and bust everybody in their guts. He was just a hilarious speaker and that’s what he did.” PeopleFirstsTogetherAmericaUsedNightStuffLaughingFireFrontsComedianGutsSpeakersEvery NightAbrahamPubsOld Things Author:Louis C. K.
“Comedians are therapists. People honestly think we're doing it for ourselves. No. If we wanted to do stand-up for ourselves, we would perform in front of a mirror and never go to a club. We are giving this away. Some people are going through so much in their lives, they want to hear something else that's going on in the world and laugh.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantGivingWantedLaughingFrontsMirrorsClubsHonestlyComedianTherapists Author:J. B. Smoove
“[Photography] tells you that every second in time is different from every other second. You want people to understand that the image in front of them has something to do with the truth, and it can never be repeated.” PeopleWantDifferentFrontsPhotographyEvery Second Author:Roger Ballen
“What does it mean to go deeper? Taking pictures when you're more emotional or sorrowful, or having sex? I just want to have really boring snapshots - people just standing in front of a camera taking pictures with a smile.” PeopleWantMeanDoeSexFrontsEmotionalStandingCamerasBoringDeeperHaving SexSnapshotsSorrowfulTaking Pictures Author:Nikki S. Lee
“The relationship I have with my mother now, and photographing her in front of the grave, it opens up discussions, and dealings with the conversations with my mother about, when I was little, how we lived and about suicide and talking about it, so it's something positive, it brought us more together, because people might never discuss that. Some families never go near certain subjects because it's too hurtful or too close or too dangerous. But within doing these photographs, I also wanted to open up a conversation with her about certain things about life.” PeopleLittlesMightWantedTogetherMotherCertainTalkingSubjectsDangerousFrontsConversationSuicidePhotographGravesDiscussionHurtfulDealings Author:Jurgen Teller
“It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people.” PeopleNeedsCharacterStageFrontsTerribleGet Up Author:Dylan Moran
“I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.” PeopleKnowsWorldSaidAmericaNightFeltTalkingFansFrontsHonestyTearsAcceptedSellingEvery NightInabilityUntrueSelling OutSold OutOverjoyed Author:Lady Gaga
“If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.” PeopleIfsWantUseLinesDecisionCompanyFrontsInformationResponsibleManagersBeing ResponsibleGood BusinessBusiness Decisions Book:The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power Within People for Astonishing Results Source: The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power Within People for Astonishing Results
“The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.” PeopleActingStageFrontsCamerasTricks Author:Ernest Borgnine
“I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that?” PeopleMeanCareOne ThingMediaFrontsMainstreamWho CaresMtvMainstream Media Author:Sebastian Bach
“Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.” PeopleThinkingWayFrontsCustomersOne WayNaive Author:Lee Konitz
“When I was about 15. I was just singing around, and people kept telling me I needed to try it. A friend got me to sing in front of Troy Taylor, and he took to me right there.” PeopleTryingFrontsNeededSinging Author:Trey Songz
“I've never had the Lord say, 'Jesse, I think that car is a little bit too nice.' I've had vehicles and the Lord said, 'Would you please go park that at your house. Don't put that in front of my house. I don't want people to think that I'm a poor God.'” PeopleThinkingWantLittlesSaidHouseBitsPoorLordNiceCarFrontsPleaseLittle BitParksVehicleToo Nice Author:Jesse Duplantis
“We just do what we do, we're grateful every night when there's people in front of the stage and singing our songs back at us. We're all fortunate to be able to be doing this for a living, so we're just grateful to be here and we just do what we do and we let the people decide.” PeopleAbleNightSongStageFrontsSingingGratefulFortunateEvery Night Author:Al Barr
“I think everything about it. Just the experience, but mainly performing live for people. I think if it wasn't for playing in front of audiences, I don't think that anyone would want to play music. That's where you get all your gratification. It's just something else to be up on stage, playing music that you wrote and having people enjoy it - and have it mean something to them also.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantMeanPlayEnjoyAudienceStageFrontsPerformingGratificationPlaying MusicPerforming Live Author:Chris Hesse
“I'm trying to be expressive on my instrument and conduct as I'm improvising. So I'm conducting with the melodies and the rhythms that I play. And so it's a very organic way. It's a lot like Charles Mingus played, cuing people in from what you play and how you play it rather than standing in front of a band, conducting and pointing.” PeopleWayTryingPlayFrontsBandStandingInstrumentsRhythmMelodyPointingExpressiveConductingImprovising Author:Joe Lovano
“When I said that something was going to cost a certain amount of money, I actually knew what I was talking about. The biggest problem that we were having on the financing front was people with lots of money saying "you need more money to make this film [Moon]," and us saying "no this is the first feature film we want to do it at a budget where we sort of prove ourselves at the starting end of making feature films; we can do this for $5 million." That is where the convincing part between me and Stuart came, we had to convince people with money that we could do it for that budget.” PeopleWantNeedsFirstsSaidEndsProblemFilmCertainCan DoTalkingMillionsFrontsAmountCostMoonProveStartingBudgetsFeaturesConvinceMore MoneyLots Of MoneyConvincingSaying NoFinancing Author:Duncan Jones
“I've seen definitive change in the mountains. I have concerns for the future generation. We inherit the earth from the people in front of us, and then we pass it on to the next generation. I don't think we've done a great job with our responsibility to leave the earth a better place than what we were born into.” PeopleThinkingDoneEarthJobsNextBornResponsibilityGenerationsFrontsMountainConcernBetter PlaceNext GenerationFuture GenerationGreat Job Author:Jeremy Jones
“Right now in Oregon anybody can open a saloon, and hire people to come in and have sex in front of their patrons.” PeopleSexFrontsRight NowPatronOregonSaloons Author:Bill O'Reilly
“I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.” PeopleSometimesPlayCharacterFeelingsStuffBitsKnowingFrontsBraveSecureBe BraveAmbiguousStuff I Like Author:Andrew Scott
“I have this rule: It's like, if you write an amazing, cool song that you mean and then you go put your leather pants on and sing it in front of people; that's OK. But if you put your leather pants on and stand in front of the mirror and go, "Ok, I've got to write a song to fit these pants," then you're in trouble.” PeopleIfsWritingMeanSongTroubleFrontsFitMirrorsPantsLeatherLeather Pants Author:John Rzeznik
“Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.” PeopleShowsYoungParentCompanyTeacherFrontsAuthorityLuxuryMannersContemptOld PeopleDisrespectBad Manners Author:Socrates
“The best feeling in the world is performing in front of a live audience who like what you're doing. I can understand why people become dictators just because of the thrill they get making the speeches.” PeopleWorldI CanFeelingsAudienceFrontsSpeechPerformingDictatorThrill Author:Steve Coogan
“I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.” PeopleIfsThinkingSelfJobsUsedActorsCan DoKnowingFrontsSpeechConsciousAskingCamerasNervesFuneralSelf ConsciousEulogy Author:Eddie Marsan
“Playing in front of 25,000 people and millions more on television, and performing and doing what I worked so hard to try to accomplish was, in my opinion, the ultimate. Do I miss it? Of course I do.” PeopleTryingHardCoursesOpinionMillionsMissingFrontsTelevisionUltimateAccomplishPerforming Author:Jimmy Connors
“Somebody described it to me the best as when you go in to write a song with two people that you've never met, you're pretty much going in and taking off your pants in front of strangers, so it's a really weird feeling.” PeopleWritingTwoFeelingsSongFrontsMetsStrangerPantsReally WeirdYou Re PrettyWeird Feeling Author:Scotty McCreery
“I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before 70,000 people at the Millennium Stadium, as I am in front of a few hundred in a small concert hall.” PeopleIdeasFrontsSingingHundredHallsConcertsOperaPrivilegedStadiumsMillennium Author:Katherine Jenkins
“I have a lot of appreciation for what people do in front of the camera as well as behind the camera. I don't think I could like one without the other. Eventually, I think the road will lead me down to producing or directing, because it's more about problem solving.” PeopleThinkingWellsProblemBehindsFrontsCamerasAppreciationProblem SolvingLeading Me Author:Masi Oka
“After a decade of profligacy, the American people are tired of politicians who talk the talk but don't walk the walk when it comes to fiscal responsibility. It's easy to get up in front of the cameras and rant against exploding deficits. What's hard is actually getting deficits under control. But that's what we must do. Like families across the country, we have to take responsibility for every dollar we spend.” PeopleCountryHardEasyWalksResponsibilityFrontsPoliticianCamerasTiredDollarsDecadesGet UpTaking ResponsibilityDeficitEasy To GetExplodingRantLike FamilyFiscal Responsibility Author:Barack Obama
“Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you play; they come to sit up front.” PeoplePlayFrontsCriticsSeats Author:Dave Evans
“It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people.” PeoplePlayFrontsTheatreBlur Author:Phil Daniels
“Now, all America sits in front of television sets and those television sets exude, I am sorry to say, a considerable amount of radioactive material. It's not huge, you know, but it's enough so that people who have made a habit of watching TV ... get the TV radiation.” PeopleKnowsMadeEnoughAmericaFrontsTelevisionMaterialsTvsHugeAmountHabitSorryRadiationI Am SorryAm SorryWatching Tv Author:L. Ron Hubbard
“Don't take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you - be nice to them. Don't sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.” PeopleFirstsWaitingAttitudeNiceFrontsColdHeatFuelBeing NiceStoves Author:Earl Nightingale
“Stephen Shadley is a great collaborator. Over the years I've seen him work with a wide variety of clients and stylistic approaches. He listens to people in a way that makes them feel like they're part of the process. Steve is an inspiration on all fronts, and, believe me, that's a rare quality.” PeopleWayFeelsYearsBelieveInspirationProcessQualityFrontsApproachWideVarietyBelieve In MeClientsCollaborators Author:Diane Keaton
“I always wanted to live the lives of different people, portray characters that are different from me. But I could have done that in front of a mirror, also, I didn't need to do films for that. At the end of the day, it's this fame, recognition, popularity, the love and appreciation you get from your audience that drives you.” PeopleNeedsDifferentEndsDoneCharacterWantedFilmAudienceFrontsFameMirrorsAppreciationRecognitionThe End Of The DayPopularityDifferent PeoplesLove And Appreciation Author:Vidya Balan
“You have a lot of educating to do hip-hop wise in Europe. When you tour, when you go out there, most of the people that come see you at the venue listen to a lot of different kinds of music, not only hip-hop; they're not heads. From time to time you're going to do a little concert in front of three or four hundred people that are only hip-hop heads and they're going to understand and know all about the gimmicks and the swagger but the rest of the people are just regular European people that listen to pop [or] rock & roll.” PeopleKnowsKindLittlesDifferentThreeWiseFourRocksFrontsHundredEuropeHip HopPopsHipsHopsConcertsDifferent KindsVenuesSwaggerGimmicksDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:K-Maro
“In a sense, touring is crazy. You go city to city playing the show over and over again. But there's something magic about being in front of people, so it's not like going through the motions every night. It's a different experience.” PeopleDifferentShowsNightCitiesMagicCrazyFrontsEvery NightTouringDifferent Experiences Author:G-Eazy
“You can't micromanage. People who try to do that often fall on their faces. Incentivize those who work with you so you get the best work you can. Every career is a team effort, even if you're the one in front.” PeopleIfsTryingFacesFallEffortCareersTeamFrontsBest WorkTeam Effort Author:Michael Franzese
“Modeling's terrifying to a lot of people. Standing in front of a camera is terrifying. I like a challenge.” PeopleChallengesFrontsStandingCamerasModeling Author:Daria Werbowy
“I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!” PeopleThinkingFirstsReasonShowsSeemsEasySuccessfulFrontsMusicianStandingGuitarGearsKnockingWarehouse Author:Grimes
“I think on a stage in front of thousands of people is a wildly invigorating and amazing experience, and it requires a certain skill set; then being in the studio, and being curled up in the fetal position under the piano, that requires another skill set.” PeopleThinkingCertainStageFrontsPositionSkillsStudiosPianoInvigoratingAmazing Experiences Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter
“The competitiveness, playing in front of 18-19,000 people every single night, people asking for my autograph, getting recognized, being able to do something like this with Sega and being on the front of a box, and being involved in video games, and listening to movies where they reference my name like in Swingers. All these things they make life so exciting, you don't know what to expect next.” PeopleKnowsAbleNightNextGamesNamesFrontsListeningInvolvedExcitingAskingBoxesVideoAutographsCompetitiveness Author:Jeremy Roenick
“Because of what I've chosen to do for my work in the world, almost every time that there's something that I'm afraid to do that I need to do, I have to do it in front of other people. It makes me feel exposed.” PeopleWorldNeedsFeelsFrontsChosenExposed Author:India.Arie