“People think I don't like interviews but I don't mind speaking about proper and interesting stuff. When it's stupid stuff to build your image and you are told to mention this and mention that, I hate it.” PeopleThinkingMindHateStuffInterestingStupidI HateInterviewsInteresting Stuff Author:Ronnie O'Sullivan
“I'm drawn to doing interesting stuff at work. And some of the time with the supernatural, you get to do really crazy, fun things. But I'm not a big genre-fantasy gal, particularly.” BigsFunStuffInterestingFantasyCrazyGenreFun ThingsGalsInteresting Stuff Author:Anna Paquin
“People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie... It's all been really interesting.” PeopleThinkingKindFunStuffInterestingMillionsBandModelsMeetingsClubsDancerBe KindJust BeingBizarreReally InterestingPlayboyGroupie Author:Cassandra Peterson
“Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.” WayIdeasTurnsFunStuffInterestingInformationLinksKillersChasingSurfingWhalesKiller WhalesSurfing The Web Author:Spider Robinson
“A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.” WantYearsLastsStuffSoundInterestingBeatsRapBitesTouringReally InterestingSound BitesGood Dance Author:Kid Koala
“I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don't connect with you if you're not honest.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsMadeStuffInterestingHonestHonestyTruth IsInterviewsNot Honest Author:Neil Strauss
“The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.” KindStuffInterestingActingInteresting ThingsCatharsis Author:Melanie Lynskey
“Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.” PeopleWritingWellsEndsEnoughFactsNationsStuffInterestingAutobiography Author:Jane Smiley
“I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.” ThinkingStuffInterestingCompanyTechnologyFiveFourSeeingNew YorkSouthPocketsChicagoValleysBostonSeattleSiliconSilicon ValleyGetting Started Author:Eric Lefkofsky
“I'd been keeping tour diaries, and especially when I go somewhere where I felt the experience might be interesting, like Eastern Europe or South America or whatever, where the whole perception of what I was doing there and stuff that I was seeing and music I was hearing, I could put all that into a diary.” WholeMightAmericaFeltStuffInterestingSeeingPerceptionEuropeSouthHearingEasternDiariesSouth AmericaEastern Europe Author:David Byrne
“I have an eclectic taste in stuff whether it be movies or music or books or food or anything. Variety is interesting.” BookStuffInterestingTasteVarietyEclectic Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I don't like doing action movies. They're not that interesting... it's fun to do the physical element but the really fun stuff, like running into exploding buildings, they won't let you do. There's too much money riding on you not getting hurt. But yes, there's something exhilarating in just sitting on a beach with somebody having a real conversation. There's something exhilarating about being open and honest.” RealRunningActionFunStuffHurtInterestingToo MuchHonestBuildingConversationElementsSittingBeachRidingExhilaratingAction MovieExplodingGetting HurtFun StuffReal Conversation Author:Channing Tatum
“As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.” ArtHandsKidsGamesStuffInterestingComputerEnjoyedProgrammingRealisedKeyboardsComputer GamesModifyingInteresting Stuff Author:Aaron Koblin
“All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with the family drama a long time ago. Now I want to get away from that. Not that I won't return to it, but a certain element has been exhausted, and it feels like why regurgitate all this stuff?” WantFeelsKindLongHas BeensCertainFatherStuffInterestingChildhoodReturnDramaElementsLong TimeGet AwayExhaustedLong Time AgoFamily Drama Author:Sam Shepard
“I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.” ThinkingKindI CanGuyStuffInterestingExpectationsEuropeAmerican Guys Author:Beck
“It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear and he mentioned that he had gotten started writing when he was eight. And I began writing when I was 10. I think we're influenced by the stuff, we find it and we love it and we're influenced by it....I know I collected my first rejection slip when I was 13, and I went on collecting them for a long time after that.” ThinkingKnowsWritingFirstsLongYoungStuffInterestingFictionBearsLong TimeProgramScience FictionEightRejectionSlipsCollectingFiction Writers Author:Octavia Butler
“Its interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.” DonePlayStuffInterestingPolitician Author:Kevin Spacey
“I don't have very much interest in trends and fashions. I don't follow the fashion shows and stuff like that into my real life. But I'm very, very interested in how people put themselves together, how women and men announce themselves to the world, through what they put on their bodies. Whether we choose Birkenstocks or whether we choose Burberry - it all signifies something and it's really interesting to me.” PeopleMenWorldRealShowsBodyTogetherStuffInterestInterestingFashionMen And WomenReal LifeTrendsReally InterestingFashion ShowBurberryBirkenstocks Author:Meryl Streep
“I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible.” WantTryingUsePurposeStuffInterestingDisciplinePhotographyPhotographerPhotographDivorceUselessConsideration Author:Garry Winogrand
“Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.” IfsWantWritingDoeBookRealGuyFunStuffInterestingStreetsHonestSellsLawyerStealingEstatesLoanFun Stuff Author:John Grisham
“Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. Theres whole swathes of stuff we cant account for.” ShouldMatterWholeUniverseStuffDarkInterestingAccountsCantDark Matter Author:Talulah Riley
“A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work.” WayWritingMindKindHas BeensIdeasStuffInterestingMovementNarrativeRelyUnconsciousOnlineCould Have Been Author:Jennifer Egan
“As an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest. I mean, I like a good thrill. Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump. But what I don't like is the gore. I don't like gratuitous violence and killing and all that kind of stuff. So it's kind of an interesting paradox.” KindMeanStuffInterestingWatchesViolenceHonestHorrorAdultsKillingMy FavoriteEdgesBeing HonestSeatsParadoxThrillGoreThrillers Author:Corey Feldman
“I'm really going off of watching John Waters speak one time and I remember he just kind of talked and it was totally interesting. I wanted to hear about his life and how he got started and when did he think he made it, stupid stuff like that. And what his relationship with the mainstream is because he's so far out there, but then he became part of the mainstream in this weird way. He was really funny, though. Yeah, I have to work on my jokes.” ThinkingWayKindMadeWantedRememberSpeakStuffWaterInterestingStupidJokesYeahMade ItOne TimeMainstream Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales. Fairy tales are as ancient as we are. I love those stories. I think they're really interesting because they always have more than simply the fright aspect. There's something deeply psychological.” ThinkingStoriesStuffLove IsInterestingCreaturesAspectAncientMonstersTalesPsychologicalAliensFairyFairy TaleReally InterestingFright Author:Denis O'Hare
“When I start writing songs, and they come easily, I'm always very suspicious. That usually means they're reminding me of something I've already done before. When the songs become unsettling, and I feel anxious about what I'm doing, that usually means it's going to be more interesting later on when we actually record the stuff.” FeelsWritingMeanDoneSongStuffInterestingRecordsAnxiousSuspiciousWriting SongsReminding Author:Nick Cave
“Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.” WantFeelsWritingStuffInterestingAdultsAdulthood Author:John Darnielle
“I've noticed that nowadays I'm doing a lot of stuff on the phone and on the computer, which I usually wouldn't do earlier. And I can feel my brain being rewired: I'm getting anxious, I'm getting more manic. Now, I'm an extreme case because I'm old and I'm overdoing it. But still, it's really interesting that I can actually feel a change in my neurochemistry from this interaction with the technology.” FeelsStillsI CanStuffInterestingBrainCasesTechnologyComputerPhonesExtremesAnxiousInteractionReally InterestingManicOverdoing It Author:George Saunders
“Nanotechnology is really interesting to me. Stuff to sort of make our world a better place, and a cleaner place, through science. And it also explains things that are happening. I've always been into it.” WorldStuffInterestingHappeningsOur WorldBetter PlaceReally InterestingCleanersNanotechnology Author:Jessica Alba
“PhotoShop is a program I use all the time with my 2D stuff. And that's an extraordinary program - you really can do anything there, and I've never hit my head on the ceiling. The 3D stuff is incredibly complicated, monstrously complicated, but for the things that I want to do, I've found very simple and interesting ways, I hope, of making images without getting tied up too much in the maps and technicalities.” WayWantUseFoundStuffCan DoSimpleInterestingToo MuchProgramExtraordinaryComplicatedMapsTiedCeilingsTied UpInteresting WaysPhotoshopTechnicalities Author:Dave McKean
“Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along.” StuffInterestingSomething New Author:Martha Beck
“Melodies are far more interesting. They are there, in your face, in certain sections of the songs. People do complain about the melody thing, but we do hit patches of melody and beauty, as well as the other stuff.” PeopleWellsFacesCertainSongStuffInterestingComplainingMelodyYour FaceSectionsPatches Author:Scott Walker
“I thought that the behavioral and some of the profiling stuff was interesting. The thing that I was most interested in, and the thing that we were really adament about, was let's get these guys who were there on tape, or in some kind of way, telling what happened. No one has really talked to them all.” WayKindGuyStuffInterestingHappenedTape Author:David Fincher
“I like confounding expectations. I can expand what it is I am able to do, and hopefully get to do more weird, interesting projects like this. There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone. And how the audience perceives that... It's out of my hands. And I don't get that frustrated by it, because I'm on to the next thing at that point.” WantI CanHandsAbleNextStuffInterestingAudienceComedyComfortProjectsExpectationsHopefullyPerceiveZoneFrustratedComfort ZoneConfounding Author:Patton Oswalt
“I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting. And again, I'm not going, "I've got to become a dramatic actor now." I just want more interesting jobs. I just want to keep doing stuff that's different.” WantShouldTryingDifferentJobsActorsStuffInterestingActingBalanceStrikesDramatic Author:Patton Oswalt
“I think I'm good with actors. I like directing actors. I also like to show up and just do an acting gig. Where I'm just a hired gun, I don't have to have an opinion on anything.I never got involved in all this stuff because I wanted to control stuff; I got involved in writing and producing because I wasn't getting interesting acting gigs. In a way I'm grateful that I didn't get interesting roles, because it made me pull my finger out and do some work.” ThinkingWayWritingMadeShowsWantedActorsStuffInterestingActingOpinionRolesInvolvedGunGratefulFingersGigsDirecting Actors Author:Steve Coogan
“I don't ever want to take a part in order to prove that I'm capable of doing something. It's all based in doing stuff that's interesting or working with people who would be fun to work with.” PeopleWantWould BeOrderFunStuffInterestingProveCapable Author:Steve Carell
“Everything is energy. It's physics. So I find the science of it all interesting; how 90% of stuff that's in our universe is made of stuff that we can't even measure. I find that fascinating.” MadeUniverseEnergyStuffInterestingPhysicsFascinating Author:Erin Davie
“My advice to anyone who wants to join in on farming is diversify. Nature is diversified, and I know you'll always have a core thing that you'll really like, but hang stuff around the edges of it. It will make your place more interesting for people to come to, and it's a lot easier to sell something else to an existing customer.” PeopleKnowsWantStuffInterestingAdviceEasierSellsEdgesCustomersCoreFarming Author:Joel Salatin
“If you directly try to write about an idea, it will never be what you imagined. But if you're imagining through the building of sentences, through the characters, and paying attention to avoid ease and comfort yet still thinking about making the sentences work, you will get a shot at some real interesting stuff.” IfsThinkingWritingTryingStillsIdeasRealCharacterStuffInterestingAttentionBuildingComfortShotsSentencesPay AttentionEaseInteresting Stuff Author:Dana Spiotta
“Reputation is a very interesting thing, and I always give people the benefit of the doubt, and I think that there's a part of all of us, especially in a generation where a lot of the stuff gets recorded.” PeopleThinkingGivingStuffInterestingDoubtGenerationsBenefitsReputationVery InterestingInteresting ThingsBenefit Of The Doubt Author:Damon Lindelof
“Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.” WantDoeIdeasHardFactsEasyStuffImaginationDifferencesInterestingCreativityCreativeSpecialDefinitionsCome UpCreatorSomething SpecialInteresting Ideas Book:Pirate Cinema Source: Pirate Cinema
“To paraphrase president Kennedy's inaugural, the torch has been passed to a new generation of cartoonists and they are doing really interesting stuff, taking the old cliches and breathing new life into them and inventing new ones. This doesn't mean the previous generation of which I'm a charter member isn't doing good stuff but this new material is invigorating everyone.” MeanHas BeensStuffPresidentInterestingGenerationsMaterialsMembersBreathingNew LifeClicheDoing GoodReally InterestingInventingTorchesNew GenerationCartoonistCharterInauguralInvigoratingParaphrasePrevious GenerationsPresident KennedyInteresting Stuff Author:Robert Mankoff
“A lot of times we associate Greenpeace and climate change and shrinking polar caps with heavy-handed, weighty material. It's somber stuff. But with Funny Or Die we thought we could put an interesting take on it. Make it a little more palatable, especially for young people who tune into the website.” PeopleLittlesYoungDiesStuffInterestingMaterialsClimateClimate ChangeHeavyTunesAssociatesWebsiteCapsShrinkingSomberGreenpeaceFunny Or Die Author:Alexander Skarsgard