“It's a little bit odd. The first time you do the play, you kind of throw yourself into it, trying to get the most out of all the individual moments. Then, a few hours later, you're still there, wondering what you could possibly do differently than what you just did a couple hours ago.” TryingFirstsKindLittlesStillsPlayMomentsIndividualBitsHoursWonderCoupleLittle BitFirst TimeOdd Author:Michael Shannon
“I use two million Twitter followers as a tool. The reason I have Twitter is so people can get to know me as a different person other than Dwight. I just realized all of the sudden like everything thinks I'm Dwight. They think that I'm Dwight from the office and that I'm this kind of annoying, difficult, nerdy, creepy guy and they don't know Rainn Wilson - although I'm a little bit nerdy, annoying and creepy. I'm not as much as Dwight Schrute.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindLittlesPersonsTwoDifferentReasonUseGuyBitsDifficultMillionsOfficeLittle BitToolsFollowersAnnoyingKnow MeCreepyWilsonNerdyDwightGet To Know MeJust Realized Author:Rainn Wilson
“Really good director sometimes will kind of see what the actors are doing and then get in there. Because there's the realization that you have to find it a little bit and then kind of clump around and sniff it out.” KindLittlesSometimesActorsBitsDirectorsLittle BitRealizationGood Directors Author:Ron Livingston
“Most of us live our lives desperately trying to conceal the anguishing gap between our polished, aspirational, representational selves and our real, human, deeply flawed selves. Dunham lives hers in that gap, welcomes the rest of the world into it with boundless openheartedness, and writes about it with the kind of profound self-awareness and self-compassion that invite us to inhabit our own gaps and maybe even embrace them a little bit more, anguish over them a little bit less.” WorldWritingTryingHumansKindLittlesRealSelfBitsCompassionOur LivesAwarenessLittle BitSelf AwarenessEmbraceProfoundGapsInvitesAnguishFlawedBoundlessPolishedSelf CompassionReal Human Author:Maria Popova
“I'm a guy who is a little bit complicated and is a little bit in his own head and is not the most free-spirited, fun-loving kind of guy.” KindLittlesGuyFunBitsLittle BitComplicatedSpiritedFun Loving Author:Jason Bateman
“I really liked the idea of playing that kind of optimistic, super-intense, go-get-'em spirit combined with being a little bit of an outsider. I am really drawn to girls of that age in general, who believe they can be a waitress, scientist, actress, a dentist, a zookeeper...and who really aren't boy-crazy.” BelieveKindLittlesIdeasAgeSpiritGirlBitsBoysCrazyLittle BitScientistActressesIntenseOptimisticEmsOutsidersDentistWaitressZookeepers Author:Amy Poehler
“I always cheerfully say, "Well, you know, the species is adapting, and whatever it needs to do, it'll do," but I do think it's maybe a little bit alarming. Everybody knows that one thing we really have to do is to be more wherever we are, more present, that's just kind of a commonplace. And the whole mobile phone thing is completely 100% the opposite - to never be where you are because you can always be somewhere else; and yet it's so fun and addictive.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsWellsKindLittlesWholeFunBitsOne ThingLittle BitOppositesSpeciesPhonesWhere You AreMobileSomewhere ElseCommonplaceAdaptingMobile Phones Author:George Saunders
“Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people.” PeopleIfsKindLittlesEarthSocialStuffBitsSecurityPlanetsPoliticianPromiseDrugLittle BitRidiculousOver YouChickensPotAfterlifeOld PeopleSocial SecurityEntitlementPrescriptionsPrescription DrugsRidiculous Things Author:Bill Maher
“I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about acting, so I tend to be a little bit more cynical.” BelieveKindLittlesActorsStuffBitsActingLittle BitMeatCynicalPotatoesMeat And Potatoes Author:Anthony Hopkins
“I really like the animated film process. It's kind of like doing a play, because you can experiment with it, rewrite it, screen it, go back, then work on it a little bit more. If the joke doesn't work, you can fix it. It's different from a live action movie.” IfsKindLittlesDifferentPlayActionFilmBitsProcessLittle BitJokesScreensExperimentsAnimatedAction MovieAnimated Films Author:Steve Martin
“Small towns seem to appreciate things a little bit more. They're less jaded and they're more kind of authentic and more themselves and they don't care as much.” KindLittlesSeemsCareBitsLittle BitAppreciateTownsDon't CareSmall TownJaded Author:Pauly Shore
“Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days, a few words will lock themselves into place. I might just get the first line. Then words just keep falling into the syllables. The choruses kind of write themselves and verses I have to work at a little bit.” IfsWritingFirstsKindLittlesSometimesMightFallBitsLinesCoupleLittle BitSticksMelodyVersesLocksChorusSyllablesFew WordsHumming Author:Jack Johnson
“I think working with actors is a little bit how a chef would work with a potato or a piece of meat. You have to kind of have a look at the potato or the piece of meat and see what kind of possibilities are in the ingredient. I know I'm using the wrong metaphor. I think my job is to see what potato is there and from there, just work under their conditions.” ThinkingKnowsLooksKindLittlesJobsActorsBitsPiecesConditionsPossibilityLittle BitMetaphorMeatIngredientsChefPotatoes Author:Lars von Trier
“I just didn't feel very good. One day I woke up and I was like: "All right. I'm going to start eating right. I'm going to start working out." I figured it might help me feel a little bit better - even if I was still sick, it might help me move forward with my struggles. I just kind of turned a corner.” IfsFeelsKindLittlesStillsHelpingMightMovingBitsStruggleOne DayEatingLittle BitSickVery GoodWork OutCornersMoving ForwardHelp MeMy StruggleEating Right Author:Chris Pronger
“It's kind of bizarre, isn't it? Having that kind of attention. I'm not under the microscope in the same fashion that a lot of the other cast members are, so I think I can slide under the radar a little bit more, but getting any attention at all is completely new for me.” ThinkingKindLittlesI CanBitsAttentionFashionMembersLittle BitCastsBizarreSlidesRadarMicroscopesCast Members Author:Xavier Samuel
“What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.” KindLittlesHappensFilmCertainFallActorsFoundBitsChallengesMemoriesInterestingInformationSceneLittle BitShotsFadesOur Memories Author:Olivia Wilde
“Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.” IfsWantTryingKindMeanLittlesSometimesForceBitsLinesStepsLittle BitOriginalsBounds Author:David Zucker
“I always wonder about people's history and their lives, especially people that are a little bit more distant, who obviously have had some kind of a thing and you know there's some reason why they're not able to connect. It's not because they don't want to. They don't have the ability.” PeopleKnowsWantKindLittlesReasonAbleBitsAbilityWonderLittle BitReason Why Author:Annette Bening
“There is a little bit of a head vs. heart kind of battle that happens sometimes with the song. There's the goose bump thing, where the melody or whatever it is just gets you and you don't know why. Sometimes, it's in a genre that you didn't think you liked and, all of a sudden, the song hits you and you just say, wow, I feel the hairs on the back of my neck. I love this song.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsHeartKindLittlesSometimesHappensSongBitsHairBattleLittle BitGenreNecksMelodyWowBumpsGeese Author:Josh Groban
“I live in New York now and most of magazines have turned more towards reality stars. So, really I think that's great because it's turned towards people who want it rather than... So, I think it's actually kind of imploding in on itself a little bit.” PeopleThinkingWantKindLittlesRealityStarsBitsNew YorkLittle BitMagazines Author:Kirsten Dunst
“I think there were moments on Snow White where I wished there was a little bit more of a sick humor toward Ravenna. But maybe the tone of the movie couldn't really support that. So you always have to kind of figure out where you are and adapt to it.” ThinkingKindLittlesMomentsBitsWhiteSupportFiguresLittle BitSickSnowToneWhere You AreSnow White Author:Kristen Stewart
“I think it's nice when everyone's happy. I'm that kind of person. But then sometimes you have people that are never happy, which also happened to me a little bit, people that always find ways to complain about everything. But if they're never happy, that's the way they are.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayKindLittlesPersonsSometimesBitsNiceHappenedLittle BitComplaining Author:Julie Delpy
“It's an important point, and every little bit helps not least because those who make those kinds of changes are more likely to make their voices heard as citizens. But the ultimate solutions are going to come through policies.” KindLittlesImportantHelpingBitsVoiceHeardPolicyCitizensLittle BitSolutionsUltimate Author:Al Gore
“I think people kind of come in who they are, and it sort of doesn't even matter who their parents are - it can affect you a little bit, and you can be guided and shaped.” PeopleThinkingKindLittlesMatterBitsParentLittle Bit Author:Rashida Jones
“I think that we are in a very strange time, when everybody is thinking about what is going to happen, and everybody is kind of cleaning house a little bit. In the fashion world, we are doing something similar. We are taking the fake out and being a little bit more real and simple.” ThinkingWorldKindLittlesRealHappensHouseBitsSimpleFashionStrangeLittle BitFakeCleaningFashion WorldClean HouseStrange Times Author:Alber Elbaz
“When I did Sean Penn’s movie, I think I was living in, like, a $500-a-month room, and someone called me up or bumped into me and asked me if I’d come up to work for a day. That sort of got me going a little bit. But it wasn’t until Sin City [2005] that I kind of got back into the game.” IfsThinkingKindLittlesGamesBitsSinRoomsCitiesMonthsLittle BitCome UpSeanSin City Author:Mickey Rourke
“I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character, so the character gives voice to something or their story, the story of the character tells you something, but, for me anyway, it's really hard to write directly about politics.” ThinkingGivingWritingKindLittlesHardCharacterStoriesSongBitsVoiceLittle BitPursueAgendas Author:David Byrne
“When I started it still wasn't okay to be this age and still make this kind of music. And believe me, I consider our stuff to be much poppier than - we're not on like cutting edge, that kind of thing anymore. And even though we're not doing Britney Spears music or Nsync, it's still what I consider to be pop music. So that does give you a little bit more longevity, I guess. But if somebody told me I'd be getting up there and singing "Heartbreaker" at fifty I'd laugh. So I don't know, I have no idea.” IfsKnowsGivingBelieveKindLittlesDoeStillsIdeasAgeStuffBitsLaughingCuttingLittle BitSingingOkayEdgesPopsNo IdeaFiftyBelieve In MeLongevityPop MusicSpearsCutting EdgeHeartbreakerNsync Author:Pat Benatar
“To me, fear of the future means fear of technology. I have a little bit of that. I still use it, but I kind of see technology as this harmful thing that's so ingrained in my life that it sort of dictates and controls my relationship with it.” KindMeanLittlesStillsUseBitsTechnologyLittle BitFear Of The Future Author:Chuck Klosterman
“We're living in what used to be Mexico, and there's this very fluid border feeling. You go a little bit south of Tijuana, for instance, into Ensenada, and it still seems kind of borderlike. And you go much farther, suddenly the prices are lower, the prostitution is different, the commerce is different, everything feels more "Mexican."” FeelsKindLittlesStillsDifferentFeelingsSeemsUsedBitsLittle BitSouthUsed To BeInstanceBordersMexicoCommerceMexicanProstitutionFluidE CommerceTijuana Author:William T. Vollmann
“And Supernatural, in fact, going there wasit felt like a place where I had to actually, um, learn to be kind of manly. I felt like I had to kind of change my, like, way of speaking for a little bit, just to kind of fit in, oddly enough. Which was weird.” WayKindLittlesEnoughFactsFeltBitsFitLittle BitBe KindManly Author:Ben Edlund
“I know that I am the kind of person that gets a little bit more nervous than other skaters, but that's because I care for my skating very much. I take all my emotions with me. I can't go out and say 'Now, this is just my job.' I really care.” KnowsKindLittlesPersonsI CanCareJobsBitsEmotionLittle BitNervousI CareSkatingSkaterBecause I Care Author:Carolina Kostner
“If I found myself married with children and had tons of puppies and a fun place to live, I imagine I'd be happier, but I kind of like being a little bit isolated and lonely.” IfsKindChildrenLittlesFoundFunBitsImagineMarriedLittle BitLonelyIsolatedPuppyPlaces To LiveMarried With Children Author:Moby
“I am interested in Scripture and theology. This is an interest that I can assume I would share with a pastor, so that makes me a little bit prone to use that kind of character, perhaps, just at the moment. Then there is also the fact that, having been a church member for many years, I am very aware of how much pastors enrich people's experience, people for whom they are significant. I know that it's a kind of custom of American literature and culture to slang them. I don't think there is any reason why that needs to be persisted in.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsYearsKindLittlesI CanReasonMomentsCharacterFactsUseCultureLiteratureBitsInterestChurchShareMembersLittle BitAssumingScriptureSignificantTheologyReason WhyCustomsPastorRich PeopleAmerican LiteratureSlangChurch Members Author:Marilynne Robinson
“In terms of driving, I actually don't have a driver's license, and it's kind of ridiculous. I've lived in Los Angeles for a couple of years and just have somehow managed to avoid taking the test, which I did last week and failed. I couldn't find the honker. I felt bad about it, but it's just a little bit embarrassing, I guess, to be in this film and not have a license.” YearsKindLittlesLastsFilmFeltBitsTermWeekCoupleLittle BitTestsRidiculousDrivingLos AngelesDriversEmbarrassingLicense Author:Imogen Poots
“I mean, as you start to scratch the surface - and that's what I think the intent of these films are. Here's a little bit of something if you're interested go read about it and it's a little bit more fascinating. It kind of is.” IfsThinkingKindMeanLittlesFilmBitsLittle BitSurfaceFascinatingScratches Author:Chris Henchy
“Not playing every day, I kind of healed up a little bit from the little injuries that I had the year before. Then, when I got home this winter and my body wasn't beat up, I said, 'Wait a minute, this may work out.'” YearsKindMayLittlesSaidHomeBodyBitsWaitingMinutesLittle BitBeatsWinterWork OutInjuryHealed Author:Jim Thome
“A lot of people just thought I'd be a .260 hitter all my life. I was kind of like, 'Let me make some adjustments and let me learn the game a little bit.'” PeopleKindLittlesGamesBitsLittle BitLet MeAdjustment Author:Jeff Francoeur
“Nobody taught me my slider. I mean, if you look at my grip, I don't think anyone has the same grip as I do. It's a separate grip. I hold it kind of weird and everything. When I started throwing it, I just wanted to start throwing something different and came up with that. I turned it a little bit.” IfsThinkingLooksKindMeanLittlesDifferentWantedBitsTaughtLittle BitThrowing Author:Scott Kazmir
“I've been able to have broad kind of education and all sorts of different music and a lot of kind of films and also different styles and genres. And so, all of these things have influenced me along the way and I take a little bit from everything I do. I've been lucky to work with a lot of great people and learn from them.” PeopleWayKindLittlesDifferentAbleFilmBitsStyleLuckyLittle BitGenreBroadsGreat PeopleDifferent StylesDifferent Music Author:Steven Price
“So actually what that was able to do was twofold. For me, it helps illustrate what DTS is capable of doing right from the beginning. And secondly, technically, it actually gave us a little bit more time so we could just finesse some effects and things like that, because when you release theatrical, you actually get a bigger window than if you're DVD when you have to have it done sooner so they can press the DVDs and all that kind of stuff.” IfsKindLittlesDoneHelpingAbleStuffBitsEffectsLittle BitCapableWindowBiggerPressesReleaseMore TimeTheatricalDvdsDoing RightFinesse Author:Klay Hall
“I think I'll try to keep working in film for a little bit. There's something still kind of magical about it, that I don't want to let go of.” ThinkingWantTryingKindLittlesStillsFilmBitsLetting GoLittle Bit Author:Joe Swanberg
“Everything about acting drives me and gives me the need to really try it. It's an evolution - doing the same thing for 12 years is kind of a chunk. Anyone would be up for a little bit of a change. It is so rewarding to do a movie, and so enjoyable. It's hard work, but really wonderful.” NeedsGivingTryingYearsKindLittlesHardWould BeBitsActingWonderfulHard WorkEvolutionLittle BitGive MeEnjoyableChunks Author:Agyness Deyn
“I began to be involved (with exercise). It was a little bit like sex sometimes - you know how sometimes you're kind of disinterested, kind of uninvolved, and slowly you begin to become interested?” KnowsKindLittlesSometimesSexBitsKnow HowInvolvedExerciseLittle BitDisinterested Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“It’s innate in me to be a Democrat — a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There’s not a lot of those anymore. I’m not saying I’m right or wrong. That’s just the way I feel. The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country. The chasm is getting larger between haves and have-nots, and that’s something we need to close down a little bit.” PeopleWayNeedsFeelsKindLittlesCountryMatterCareSocialBitsPoorClassIssuesMiddleLittle BitConcernSafetyDemocratTake CareOur CountryHealth CareMiddle ClassSouthernInnatePopulistChasmsSafety NetHaves And Have Nots Author:Tim McGraw
“I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of.” KindLittlesKidsBitsBusinessWorryReadyWallLittle BitMy FamilyPrivacyProtectivePostersAnonymity Author:Hugh Jackman
“Um, the relationship between Thor and Sif in this movie is quite platonic. I mean, they're good buddies, they've grown up with each other, they're warriors, they fight side by side. We haven't take it to the next level yet. I'm going to throw that in there. But yeah, she kind of thinks he's a little bit pig-headed, but she loves him nevertheless, you know, she's like that's my buddy, I'll do what I can for him.” ThinkingKnowsKindMeanLittlesI CanFightingNextBitsSidesLevelsHavensLittle BitYeahWarriorPigsNeverthelessBuddyNext LevelPlatonic Author:Jaimie Alexander
“And, what we've allowed ourselves to become - and this is part of Chris' ideas - is complacent, in allowing our lives to be taken over, or at least in allowing that kind of scrutiny into our lives. We've given up a little bit of that, and this is the existential nightmare of all of that. What happens when you suddenly find out that people have been watching you, with a purpose?” PeopleKindLittlesHas BeensIdeasHappensPurposeGivenBitsTakenOur LivesLittle BitNightmareAllowingExistentialGiven UpScrutinyComplacent Author:Remi Aubuchon
“On the very last day of shooting [of The Last King of Scotlang], I remember wanting to get the [Idi Amin] character out of me right away, as much as I could. You literally take a bath to wash him off you. Luckily, I went into another part not so long afterwards, so I was kind of able to push it away a little bit. But speech patterns, and little sounds, particularly colloquial things, like the way you ask questions or might respond, were sticking with me, probably because I'd worked so hard to make it a part of my everyday way of expressing myself.” WayKindLittlesLongHardCharacterMightAbleLastsRememberAsksBitsSoundKingsSpeechLittle BitEverydayPatternsShootingBathsLast Day Author:Forest Whitaker
“Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit, but we kind of stumbled on writing "Joseph's Lullaby." The irony is when I originally wrote the song, it was called "Mary's Lullaby." I wrote it from Mary's standpoint and it was in a higher key, a real falsetto, and it just wasn't right. One day, the producer's wife said, "Well, it's kind of odd that you're singing from Mary's perspective, being the guy. Why don't you do Joseph?” WritingWellsKindLittlesSaidRealWholeGuySongBitsRecordsWifePerspectiveKeysGrewHigherOne DayLittle BitGrew UpSingingIntentionProducersIronyOddMaryStandpointLullabyFalsetto Author:Bart Millard