“As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.” NeedsSocialRoomsTalkingAudienceLike YouLockedKeep Talking Author:Jonathan Stroud
“Unfortunately, when you're an actor you have to act. It's not like you can sit in your living room, your bedroom, your study or whatever and act with yourself. It requires having somebody to respond to.” ActorsRoomsStudyLike YouBedroomLiving Room Author:Chris Sarandon
“The job is the same - to attempt to make it sound like you've never said it before and as if it's just occurred to you. And that's the same whether you're on camera or whether you're on stage in a room full of people.” PeopleIfsSaidJobsSoundRoomsStageLike YouCameras Author:Bill Nighy
“I could never work in a recording studio where you have this lovely view and a beach and the waves are crashing. For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison. And you can create beauty when you're in that sort of deprived environment, which is a re-creation of your formative years.” YearsLittlesRoomsViewsEnvironmentCreationLike YouWindowPrisonWaveStudiosTinyLovelyBeachDeprivedRecording StudioFormative Years Author:Madonna Ciccone
“It's nice to not feel like you're just re-enacting a preconceived moment, but there's room for an organic feeling to develop while the camera is rolling. Even amidst these enormous technical productions, Chris [ Nolan] always prioritized making sure that sort of spontaneous and organic feeling could happen at the moment.” FeelsMomentsFeelingsHappensRoomsNiceLike YouCamerasProductionsEnormousRollingSpontaneousNolan Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Sometimes I think I'm more comfortable onstage than I am in my own room. When I get onstage, it's kind of like your chance to let go and be something that you're not maybe. It's your time to dream.” ThinkingKindSometimesDreamChanceMy OwnRoomsLike YouLetting GoComfortable Author:Britney Spears
“The group-effort sound in recording of Sea Lion is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. Theres a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.” PeopleRealEnergySoundRoomsEffortGroupsSeaLike YouTrainLionsGroup Effort Author:Feist
“You got to always take advantage of getting your room cleaned. You may think it's nice not to have anybody in your room, like your privacy's not being invaded. But there's nothing like walking back into a clean room. You've got to remember that.” ThinkingMayRememberRoomsNiceLike YouWalkingAdvantageCleanPrivacyYour Room Author:Mitch Hedberg
“It's rare when you're actually making a movie and it feels like you're watching a movie in the theater. You feel like a surfer in a wave, catching the wave, going for it every time, there's electricity in the room, it doesn't feel like acting, you ride the wave.” FeelsRoomsActingLike YouTheaterWaveElectricityCatchingSurferGoing For It Author:Jon Lovitz
“Working in television it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it. You have more time, more room, an ability to reflect on your performance and the character and how much has really been shown, and what you'd like to see. It's nice. You have more breathing room.” LongCharacterAbleAbilityRoomsNiceTelevisionLike YouPeriodsShotsPerformancesSticksBreathingMore TimeReally GreatLong Periods Of Time Author:Christina Ricci
“I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can always tell what temperature a room is in a Hitchcock film because the people feel alive, they don't feel like they're just being filmed on a stage.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFilmRoomsAliveStageExampleMastersLike YouRealmsJust BeingTemperatureHitchcockSensational Author:Tilda Swinton
“You can't really fake confidence. You know what I mean? Just be confident in who you are when you walk into a room, feel like you own it.” KnowsFeelsMeanWalksRoomsLike YouWho You AreFakeBe Confident Author:Nina Agdal
“I can't say this too often - that a little humor can make life worth living. That has always been my credo. Somebody once asked me, 'What would you like your epitaph to be?' I've always said that I'd like it to be: He left people a little happier than they were when he came into the room.” PeopleLittlesSaidI CanLeftRoomsLike YouWorth LivingEpitaphLife Worth LivingCredo Author:Bennett Cerf
“I had a parakeet that used to fly around the house and crash into these huge mirrors my mother put in. Ever heard of this interior design principle, that a mirror makes it seem like you have an entire other room? What kind of jerk walks up to a mirror and goes, Hey look, there's a whole other room in there. There's a guy that looks just like me in there.” LooksKindWholeSeemsUsedMotherGuyHouseWalksRoomsPrinciplesHeardDesignHugeLike YouMirrorsLike MeHeyCrashInteriorsJerkInterior DesignParakeets Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“It's not how pretty you are or how talented you are. It's that if these five people on this day in this room like you, then you get a job.” PeopleIfsJobsRoomsFiveLike YouThis Day Author:Nicole Ari Parker
“I think that watching artists, soulful artists, they get into it. It's always the way I perform, so when I'm on stage I just try to get into it - I'm in my own world. That's the whole thing about the stage, it's like a sacred place. They're [the audience] watching into the different world, right, so it's like you see performers and they're in the same room, so it's a different vibe. Sometimes it's great, but I try to separate it, you know, I wanna separate it 'cos otherwise I feel naked. It just feels natural.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayFeelsTryingDifferentSometimesWholeArtistNaturalMy OwnRoomsAudienceStageLike YouSacredNakedPerformersDifferent WorldsSoulfulMy Own WorldSacred Places Author:Justin Nozuka
“I think most of us, as writers, have had experiences where you get edited and it doesn't feel like your voice at all. And so it's been nice to go through the experience of having a lot wind up on the cutting-room floor, and yet still feel that your voice is being - not purified, but made more yourself. I think that's a very rare thing.” ThinkingFeelsMadeStillsVoiceRoomsNiceCuttingWindLike YouEditedRare Things Author:Sarah Stillman
“I just had a device made that fits in your mouth and juts your jaw out like you have an underbite. It locks in that position to keep your throat passage open when you sleep. This is the sacrifice I make for my wife. It was either this device or me sleeping in the other room.” MadeSleepRoomsWifeSacrificePositionLike YouFitMouthsMy WifeDevicesThroatPassagesLocksSleeping In Author:Richard Gere
“Rick Rubin said, well, I don't know that we will sell records. He said, I would like you to go with me and sit in my living room with a guitar and two microphones and just sing to your heart's content everything you ever wanted to record. I said, that sounds good to me. So I did that. And day after day, three weeks, I sang for him.” KnowsWellsHeartSaidTwoWantedThreeSoundRoomsRecordsWeekLike YouSellsGuitarLiving RoomMicrophones Author:Johnny Cash
“With the films, it starts off with certain coordinates in the world and seeing what happens. What happens if you place yourself at an oil refinery in the Middle East? What happens if you place yourself in the White House Cabinet Room? What happens if you place yourself with Brad Pitt on the set of a film? And so on. And no matter what I capture, there is a sense of déjà vu to it, like you might have come across this visual before.” IfsWorldMatterMightHappensFilmCertainHouseWhiteRoomsSeeingMiddleLike YouNo Matter WhatOilEastVisualsWhite HouseCaptureMiddle EastCabinetsBradCoordinatesRefinery Author:Sarah Morris
“Sometimes I feel like when you're in the dressing room, and you're on stage in 10 minutes, you feel like your stomach is going to explode.” FeelsSometimesRoomsMinutesStageLike YouStomachDressingsDressing Rooms Author:Nick Valensi
“I would love to be able to play anywhere, but to me the sweet spot is clubs and theaters, just because I feel like you lean in to tell a joke. You don't back up. Comedy lives in that area. I've played amphitheaters, big clubs, and pool halls, and the most fun rooms hold anywhere from 500 to 2,000 people. That intimacy is where comedy really lives.” PeopleFeelsPlayBigsAbleFunRoomsComedySweetLike YouJokesAreasTheaterClubsSpotsIntimacyHallsPool Author:Michael Che