“I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.” NeedsLooksKindFilmCertainActorsStarsQualityFiguresParticularOrdinaryIllusionClaimsFilm Stars Author:Stephen Fry
“Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.” KindPayAttentionSolutionsPay AttentionLooking Back Author:Agnes Denes
“I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.” WantKindChildrenWould BeLiteratureTeachComedyUniversityInsaneSuspectsEnglish LiteratureDeeply In Love Author:Stephen Fry
“I've got like a weird bond with horses. I'm kind of a horse whisperer, I don't know what it is. I'm not great on a horse. I'm getting better, but I'm not brilliant. So yeah, I've spent a lot of time with horses. They're great creatures, I love them. I do love riding them when I get the chance to.” KnowsKindChanceCreaturesHorseYeahBrilliantGet BetterRiding Author:Kit Harington
“People come into work and actually go home to their families. They want to go there and explore and have a good time, but they also want to go home, which is the best kind of working environment. You go in and do your job, and then you go home and enjoy your life.” PeopleWantKindHomeJobsEnjoyEnvironmentGood TimesHaving A Good TimeEnjoy Your Life Author:Khandi Alexander
“Meeting Raven Wilkinson and having her as a mentor, it was that kind of support from the generations that came before me that helped to lift me up and give me the confidence to then be able to give back and bring other minorities with me on this journey.” GivingKindAbleSupportGenerationsJourneyGive MeMeetingsLiftsMinoritiesMentorGiving BackRavensLift Me Up Author:Misty Copeland
“If you play men, in a way it's easier. You can have a voicebox, you can have false hair, mustaches, wigs, you can have all kinds of stuff. But when you're playing women playing men, you only really have yourself to work with, plus tiny little extras.” IfsMenWayKindLittlesPlayStuffHairEasierTinyAll KindsExtrasPlusWigsMustache Author:Janet McTeer
“Every now and then I'll think of something to put back in the show. I just kind of play it off the top of my head. If I do it that way it keeps it kinda fresh.” IfsThinkingWayKindPlayShowsNow And Then Author:Willie Nelson
“I love Jon Hamm. I'm so lucky to get to work with him and work so closely with him. We have a lot of these scenes that are very intimate, and very tender. Those are the kind of things that an actor lives for. Real moments of connection with other actors.” KindRealMomentsActorsSceneLuckyConnectionsIntimateSo Lucky Author:Jessica Pare
“I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.” KindFansNew YorkGrewGrew UpPopsPostsPunk80sPop MusicGrunge Author:Jessica Pare
“I think no matter what kind of life you have, whether it looks one way to people or another way, you always have moments when you imagine a different life.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksKindDifferentMatterMomentsImagineNo Matter WhatOne WayAnother WayDifferent Life Author:Kristen Wiig
“I took guitar lessons and recorded the song in New York. It was kind of a dream. I got to pretend I was a recording artist for a couple days.” KindDreamArtistSongNew YorkCoupleLessonsGuitar Author:Kristen Wiig
“When you try to worry about missteps and all that kind of stuff, that's not the healthiest way to be.” WayTryingKindStuffWorry Author:Jeremy Piven
“I really just drew off of where we are now, with reality TV. You can't help but see a lot of it. You choose to watch some, but with some, you just can't help but hear it and see it. It's just piercing in your brain. That piercing is what I was tapping into , with whatever they were doing to pierce into the minds of everybody. It takes a certain kind of person to shut your mind off to the consequences and just try to get results. That's what I was going for - results.” TryingMindKindPersonsHelpingRealityCertainResultsBrainWatchesTvsConsequenceYou ChoosePierceReality TvTappingPiercings Author:Elizabeth Banks
“I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, "Why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you're walking in, take a look again". Like, I think I pussy out. So, I'm not that kind of person.” ThinkingKindPersonsPussy Author:Charlize Theron
“The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.” PeopleHumansKindSometimesActorsFunStuffConditionsCorePretendingHuman ConditionStrippingFun Stuff Author:Charlize Theron
“I've never been a fan of labels. I think its very easy to kind of look at somebody and just kind of throw a label on them 'They're crazy.'” ThinkingLooksKindEasyCrazyFansLabels Author:Charlize Theron
“I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.” FeelsTryingKindSometimesLike YouSympathetic Author:Charlize Theron
“I am going home and I think in a week or so, hopefully, I'll be done with all the press stuff, and then I can kind of into my cave and start preparing for "Mad Max."” ThinkingKindI CanDoneHomeStuffWeekMadPressesHopefullyPreparingCavesMaxGoing HomeMad Max Author:Charlize Theron
“Ben Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way.” WayKindHonestNew YorkSmartCuteNeurotic Author:Manohla Dargis
“I was massively jealous but also excited when Tarantino did Inglourious Basterds, I'm a huge guys on a mission fan. Those kind of movies.” KindGuyFansHugeExcitedMissionsJealousTarantino Author:Duncan Jones
“When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.” KindWantedCreativityGrowing UpComedyGrowingUltimateFeedingParodySpinal Tap Author:Ben Stiller
“I don't think it's ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.” ThinkingKindCharacterCertainEasySidesDarkCynicalDark Humor Author:Ben Stiller
“I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.” ThinkingWorldKindWholePatheticParody Author:Ben Stiller
“I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true." I like those kinds of backgrounds.” ThinkingWellsLooksKindTechnologyYeahBackgroundsBeing TrueRepresentationImaginative Author:Bill Nighy
“In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.” PeopleKindNumbersStreetsAll KindsTalk To MeLove Actually Author:Bill Nighy
“There are things which need to be shown in the trailer in order to let the audience know what kind of film it is that they're going to be expecting to see.” KnowsNeedsKindFilmOrderAudienceExpectingTrailers Author:Duncan Jones
“There's a certain kind of existential freedom that comes to people who realize that all the things that they hold onto and that they think define them, once they're gone, there's this new freedom to determine the way you're going to live your life.” PeopleThinkingWayKindCertainRealizingGoneDetermineExistentialLive Your Life Author:Donal Logue
“I wouldn't describe myself as a do-gooder. That's really more my wife. I'm kind of just the obsessed guy who's been writing and making movies since I was a little kid, just in a room and make it.” WritingKindLittlesKidsGuyRoomsWifeMy WifeObsessedLittle KidDescribe Myself Author:M. Night Shyamalan
“We are not like dogs who are kind of "What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it."” KindTodayDogRabbits Author:Benjamin Carson
“I always think it is kind of funny when it comes to wisdom, and I say God has a sense of humor, because my middle name is Solomon, and I love the Book of Proverbs which is written by Solomon, and I have read from the Book of Proverbs to start and end every day since I was 14.” ThinkingKindBookEndsNamesWrittenMiddleSense Of HumorSolomonGod Has A Sense Of Humor Author:Benjamin Carson
“I'm kind of a scaredy cat - I don't watch a ton of them. I mean, I started reaching this script at night and had to wait until the next morning to finish it so it would be light out. It really scared me. The scary movies I like are The Others and Pan's Labyrinth - they're so scary but they're about real things, and hopefully this is too.” KindMeanRealLightWould BeNightNextWaitingWatchesMorningCatScriptsScaredScaryHopefullyReachingReal ThingsLabyrinth Author:Keri Russell
“I'm not a famous celebrity of any kind. I'm a guy from Edmonton who's got a great job and I'm loving it.” KindJobsGuyGreat JobEdmonton Author:Nathan Fillion
“America isn't as lucky as you guys (Europeans), who for the most part have this quality of food that keeps you slim. We're over-eaters in the United States by nature, with fast food and all this kind of thing.” KindStatesAmericaGuyUnitedQualityUnited StatesLuckyFast FoodSlim Author:John Travolta
“I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.” KindRemovePretendingAccents Author:Jamie Bell
“The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.” WantKindSoulReasonIndustryIntegrityIndependentMy Soul Author:Jamie Bell
“If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.” IfsKindWould BeChallengesEnormousRight ThingRight Time Author:Jamie Bell
“I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play a lot of different kinds of music. We're getting toward the end of our business collaboration. If you could envision a record that you wanted to hear from me, what kind of record would it be?" It wasn't like asking him to fill an order, it was really just a conversation. For all the things I'd ever asked him, this was one thing I'd never asked, and I don't know why. So I was curious. And the thing that he was most interested in hearing was a solo record.” IfsKnowsWritingKindSaidDifferentEndsPlayWantedSongOrderPresidentRecordsOne ThingStyleConversationAskingPhonesHearingCuriousLabelsCollaborationDifferent KindsSoloDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:Ryan Adams
“I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.” ThinkingKindBenefitsImprovisation Author:Ryan Adams
“I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that I'm not projecting so much, so that my perception of the song doesn't interfere with what its real body is. Sometimes it's like telling a story that I heard in passing, and I don't want it to become completely mine.” WantKindIdeasRealSometimesMomentsStoriesBodySongHeardMinesPerceptionBuiltStructurePassingPassingsFragileInterfereImprovisation Author:Ryan Adams
“I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn't operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it's actually also true - if I want to appear in public I want to look my best. If I'm onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.” IfsWantLooksKindI CanReasonUsedClothesJokesContemporarySuitsDecentMotorTrousers Author:Bill Nighy
“To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling.” FeelsKindSelfEnoughCan DoStruggleFrontsYeahCompetitionScaryHumblingElitist Author:Ryan Adams
“I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in - how clever you are. I put down "Kit Harington," and they looked at me like I was completely stupid, and they said, "No, you're Christopher Harington, I'm afraid." It was only then I learnt my actual name. That was kind of a bizarre existential crisis for an 11-year-old to have, but in the end I always stuck with Kit, because I felt that's who I was. I'm not really a "Chris."” YearsKindSaidEndsSchoolRememberNamesFeltStupidTestsCrisisStuckCleverExistentialThey SaidBizarreExistential Crisis Author:Kit Harington
“I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.” KindGuyObvious Author:Kit Harington
“The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's so open to interpretation. And I'm very happy having different interpretations of it.” KindDifferentReasonPhotographyJournalismInterpretationVery HappyDifferent Interpretations Author:Alec Soth
“Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for your resume, but you really didn't want to practice law. You wanted to do public policy, or maybe go into politics.” IfsWantKindWantedSchoolLawFeltPracticePolicyNeededResumesPublic PolicyLaw SchoolYale Author:Robert Reich
“The good news is you can get a lot of information off the Internet for free and in a hurry. But I think the breaking up of the media, which is otherwise kind of healthy, has contributed to less actual reporting and a louder, more contentious, more divisive public discourse, highlighting conflict, sometimes falsely.” ThinkingKindSometimesMediaInformationInternetHealthyConflictNewsDiscourseGood NewsPublic DiscourseContentiousHighlighting Author:William J. Clinton
“I always felt there was kind of a millennial aspect to The Sex Pistols.” KindSexFeltAspectPistolsMillennialsSex Pistols Author:Julien Temple
“Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me' and other such simple courtesies...Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.” IfsKindSpiritualitySimpleMoneyOur LivesExpressionBehaviorMarkExcuseAbsenceOur TimeEnjoymentConsiderationFedsLackingSacramentsCourtesyGraciousExcuse MeKind WordsRudenessTime Is Money Author:Edward M Hays