“More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.” WantFeelsKindFeelingsFunRoomsAudienceKingsInvolvedGet UpHanging OutLiving Room Author:Kate Voegele
“Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.” IfsNeedsSoulNextFunActingInvolvedStrategyPassionateRefuseMy SoulFuelGet InvolvedScreenplaysSemantics Author:Shailene Woodley
“I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.” IfsWantI CanPurposeFunSidesOpinionInvolvedCamerasJournalismLightersLighter Side Author:Eleanor Mondale
“It's great to do commercial movies; they are fun. You're doing stunts, you are running around, there is a lot of money involved in the production; there are incredible sets and designs.” RunningFunDesignInvolvedIncrediblesProductionsLots Of Money Author:Lucy Liu
“The function of a blog is on some level to start a conversation that you're not involved in any more because you've already had your say. That thing of coming right off the news - did you see what I saw this morning, can you believe it? - has a kind of fun appeal.” BelieveKindFunLevelsMorningSawsInvolvedConversationNewsFunctionAppealsBlogs Author:Nora Ephron
“Emily Procter getting pregnant changed the show for me. I got so much more involved, which was so much fun! Now I feel like an action figure Barbie.” FeelsShowsActionFunFiguresChangedInvolvedPregnantEmilyBarbieAction Figures Author:Eva LaRue
“I've been involved with Fantasy Football for more than 10 years now, and I'll keep competing each year as long as I'm still having fun. I like to play sports, and I like to compete, but I also have a wife and three daughters. This lets me stay involved with the sport I love and still spend quality time with my family too.” YearsLongStillsPlayThreeFunSportsQualityFantasyWifeFootballInvolvedDaughterMy FamilyLet MeHaving FunCompetingQuality TimeThree DaughtersFantasy Football Author:Stevie Richards
“For actors, being successful is generally getting a job. If you can work a lot, you're really successful. If you work a lot on projects that are interesting and intelligent and great fun to be part of, then you're hugely successful. And I feel hugely successful. I can't believe that I get to be involved with the projects and the people I work with.” PeopleIfsFeelsBelieveI CanJobsActorsFunInterestingSuccessfulInvolvedProjectsIntelligentBeing Successful Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.” FunFoodInvolvedCookingCooksHaving FunKitchenRestaurantsFood LoveFood SafetyCooking LoveI Love FoodCooking And Love Author:Alma Guillermoprieto
“My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.” PeopleLittlesTwoLastsSongFunInvolvedShotsPerformancesException Author:Tom Lehrer
“I don't go out of my way to get noticed. When I'm in Scotland it's tough, because loads of people come up to me. They're always really polite. It's nice, it's fun and good to speak to people who aren't involved in tennis, but some have this habit of just staring at me and that makes me really self-conscious. I'd rather they came up and said hello.” PeopleWaySaidSelfSpeakFunNiceHabitInvolvedConsciousToughCome UpMy WayStaringTennisLoadPoliteScotlandHelloSelf Conscious Author:Andy Murray
“Writing helped to have jobs that involved running around, pushing things like dish carts and wheelbarrows. It would be hard to sit at a desk all day, and then come to sit at another desk. Also, it helps to abandon hope. If I sit at my computer, determined to write a New Yorker story I won't get beyond the first sentence. It's better to put no pressure on it. What would happen if I followed the previous sentence with this one, I'll think. If the eighth draft is torture, the first should be fun. At least if you're writing humor.” IfsThinkingShouldWritingFirstsHardHelpingStoriesHappensWould BeRunningJobsFunInvolvedComputerPressureDeterminedSentencesTorturePushingAbandonDishesDesksNew YorkersCartsNo PressureWheelbarrowsWriting Humor Author:David Sedaris
“I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun.” IdeasFunStuffImaginationLove IsTalkingCreativeInvolvedDirectors Author:Brendon Urie
“Someone once told me it's more important what you turn down than what you take, and I think that rings true, especially when you're trying to make decisions about how you want to be viewed. It's hard, because I also want to have fun, and if there's a project that's super-small or low-budget or silly but it happens to have friends involved, I'll always take it, because my number-one priority is that I want to have fun with my career.” IfsThinkingWantTryingImportantHardHappensTurnsFunDecisionNumbersCareersInvolvedProjectsLowsPrioritiesRingsSillyHaving FunBudgets Author:Kristen Bell
“The total freedom means that you're enjoying what you're doing and you're involved in what you're doing, and that gives you the opportunity to experiment and have fun.” GivingMeanOpportunityFunEnjoyInvolvedExperimentsHaving Fun Author:Jamie Hewlett
“I happened to write a book about the stuff I've been involved in over the years. It just so happened that my profession is that I was a cop in the New York City Police Department. I guess people thought it was pretty interesting to have these two things meshed together. My life is pretty boring, I don't know why they're doing this. It's fun.” PeopleKnowsWritingYearsTwoBookTogetherLife IsFunStuffInterestingCitiesHappenedNew YorkInvolvedPoliceBoringProfessionTwo ThingsDepartmentNew York CityCopPolice Department Author:Ralph Sarchie
“It was Die Hard in my father's workshop. And so when that opportunity came up, the possibility of doing it, it's more the teenager in me who says that, 'I have to, of course I'm going to.' So that's the fun of reinventing, or just getting involved in things that really, actually loved as a kid growing up wanting to grow up to be a director.” HardKidsDiesCoursesFatherOpportunityFunGrowsGrowing UpGrowingPossibilityInvolvedDirectorsTeenagerWorkshopsKids Growing UpReinventing Author:Len Wiseman
“But the Fear (that sensation that all writers get of how the hell do words get from my puny little brain to into a book, and isn't magic somehow involved, and surely I'm not qualified to be involved in any part of that process, and I somehow managed that tomorrow, but you mean I have to do it this morning too, well how do I even start?) withdraws quite a bit when it's already light and lovely outside when I get to my desk. So I got right past that big moment today, and into the fun slide down towards the ending, yelling whee.” WellsMeanLittlesBookMomentsBigsLightTodayPastFunBitsProcessBrainMorningHellMagicTomorrowInvolvedLovelySensationsDesksQualifiedSlidesYelling Author:Paul Cornell
“I've done animated TV stuff, but I'd never done animated film work, which is much more involved and much more labor intensive. The animators are much more meticulous and detailed. It's just been really fun and really satisfyingly creative.” DoneFilmFunStuffCreativeTvsInvolvedLaborAnimatedAnimatorMeticulousAnimated Films Author:Ty Burrell
“Agent Coulson takes the work very seriously. He certainly has some fun with Spider-Man and the others, but he takes each of their tasks, including when they get involved with the drama club, way too seriously. The adventures that they come up with are really exciting.” MenWayFunAdventureInvolvedDramaTasksExcitingIncludingCome UpClubsAgentsSpidersGet InvolvedSpider ManDrama Club Author:Clark Gregg
“Well, I think it's era that in which people had a lot of fun. In fact too much fun and would not concern themselves with the negative effects of the accesses that they were involved in.” PeopleThinkingWellsFactsFunToo MuchEffectsInvolvedConcernNegativeAccessErasToo Much Fun Author:Gloria Gaynor
“I just love all the details about movies, and it's fun to be involved in everything. I just love it. It's just a little added fun thing to be consulted about stuff.” LittlesFunStuffInvolvedDetailsFun Things Author:Geena Davis
“They told me I'd have to be there for the entire shooting of the movie which was two and a half months and again, I was surprised. Most movies I'd worked on before took only a day or so, so I realized this was a pretty big deal. I got to the set and was involved in a very integral way, which was a fun experience to be a part of.” WayTwoBigsFunDealsHalfMonthsInvolvedI RealizedShootingBig Deal Author:Mike Vallely
“It's interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That's what I mean. Also, of course, it means that I'm slightly setting up the audience that there's a bit of fun involved, as well.” WellsHeartMeanCoursesFunBitsInterestingAudienceEmotionalInvolvedSettingSettingsSentimental Author:Alan Cumming
“When you're doing physical comedy, everybody's involved, not just the actors. Everybody's behind the scenes following them, and we've got Jillian the cinematographer running after them, then we've got three guys behind her who are cable-wranglers running with her so she doesn't trip on it. Every day was a mad-dash to the finish line. Every day was so stressful. Every day was so fun.” RunningGuyThreeActorsFunLinesBehindsComedyInvolvedSceneMadFollowingCablesStressfulBehind The ScenesFinish LineCinematographersPhysical ComedyWranglers Author:J. Robert Spencer
“People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.” PeopleFunInvolvedPersonal LifeJaded Author:John Darnielle
“It is true that veganism is a serious issue, but there should be fun involved. Why do anything if it doesn't bring some joy at the end of the day?” IfsShouldEndsJoyFunIssuesSeriousInvolvedThe End Of The DayVeganismSerious Issues Author:Sharon Gannon
“I got involved in the design process a long time ago. I've been working with their main designer [Berlei] for a while. It's been really fun all around.” LongFunProcessDesignInvolvedLong TimeDesignerLong Time AgoDesign Process Author:Serena Williams
“If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain kind of misery or effort that's involved with it. The difficulty of travel, getting all your bags packed and your work done and navigating the airports and all that. That sort of struggle.” IfsThinkingKindDoneCertainFunEffortStruggleInvolvedDifficultyMiseryBagsAirportsWork Done Author:Ian Bogost
“With sports and games, you have fun despite working very hard, even despite failing repeatedly. Even the fun of a night out, you have to get somewhere and do all the conversational, social work of being out. There's effort involved. But then when you're finished, you can conclude, "Actually there was something gratifying about the hardship that I just encountered." That discovery of novelty is where the molten core of fun is.” HardNightGamesFunSocialSportsEffortFailingInvolvedDiscoveryFinishedCoreDespiteHaving FunHardshipSocial WorkNoveltyWorking Very Hard Author:Ian Bogost
“The work on "Weeds" was wonderful! It was pure fun, from the people involved in the production to Jenji Kohan, who was the creator of the show, to Justin Kirk, who was my partner and who was terrific to work with because he's a great friend. The whole experience was just wonderful.” PeopleWholeShowsFunWonderfulInvolvedPureProductionsCreatorPartnersWeedTerrificJustinGreat FriendKirk Author:Meital Dohan
“My family was very engaged in the world around us. My father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and an immigrant from Panama. He was deeply involved in civil rights causes, which scared my mother - she was also an immigrant, from Barbados, who had her hands full with six kids, and she worried that my father would get deported. But because of his passion for politics and civil rights, we paid close attention to current events. We would watch political conventions together - for fun!” WorldHandsKidsTogetherPoliticalMotherPassionFatherFunCausesAttentionWatchesRightsEventsInvolvedSixMy FamilyPaidScaredCurrentsCivil RightsWorriedMinistersEngagedImmigrantsConventionsMethodistsCurrent EventsBarbadosPanama Author:Gwen Ifill