“I always want my standup act to appeal to everybody in the room, and when I started standup, and I would see people talk about their kids and their wife, and I'd always cringe a little bit, like, 'I can't get a date, I don't know what you're talking about.'” PeopleKnowsWantLittlesI CanKidsBitsRoomsTalkingWifeLittle BitAppealsCringe Author:Jim Gaffigan
“Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.” PeopleKnowsLittlesMightBitsLittle BitProductions Author:Phoebe Snow
“I think people are having less of an investment in relationships. It used to be that you meet someone, you go on four or five dates and you gradually get to know them and trust them at the same time, and you learn a little bit about them. Now, it could be one date - maybe even before that first date - you go on Facebook have all the information.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFirstsLittlesUsedBitsFiveFourInformationGoes OnLittle BitInvestmentUsed To BeFirst Date Author:Ashton Kutcher
“...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You both diverge from them - you know - you live, but you also permanently inhabit that geography and that mental space - and so you do morph a little bit. We do become what we imagine.” PeopleKnowsBelieveLittlesRealCharacterStoriesWisdomDreamRealityRunningBitsCommunitySpaceHistoryImagineGenerationsHuman NatureLittle BitIllusionTheaterIndividualityVersionsIdeologyGeographyFunny ThingsMaking Up Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture.” PeopleKnowsYearsLittlesHas BeensCultureCoursesBitsIssuesMinesLittle BitConcernDeafDeafness Author:John Scalzi
“Where there's self importance, there's only a very little bit of you and that little bit is distorted. It's in a holding pattern that is false to what it knows. That holding pattern forbids you, in that little bit of you, from being the rest of you.” KnowsLittlesSelfBitsLittle BitImportancePatternsSelf-importance Author:John de Ruiter
“I never envisioned myself being a film star at all. Most people know that pro wrestling is a little bit of an accident for me. I never really had any real aspirations of being in front of a camera.” PeopleKnowsLittlesRealFilmStarsBitsFrontsLittle BitCamerasAccidentsAspirationWrestlingFilm StarsPro Wrestling Author:Roddy Piper
“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
“I love my situation as a spectator. The actors are only a little bit ahead of the audience. The audience discovers the episode when it's screened, but we actors only discover the episode when we get the script, two weeks ahead of shooting. Until then, we know nothing of the evolution of our characters.” KnowsLittlesTwoCharacterActorsBitsSituationAudienceWeekEvolutionLittle BitScriptsShootingEpisodesSpectatorsTwo Weeks Author:Richard Sammel
“Business is very personal. For me, everything is extremely personal. With actors, the fact that I write helps, because when you say to an actor "Oh I want you to do it a little bit more ...," without saying what you want more of, then the actor doesn't know what to do. But if you can put into words exactly what you want, then the experience of writing is helpful with that.” IfsKnowsWantWritingLittlesFactsHelpingActorsBitsLittle BitWhat You WantHelpfulI Want You Author:Marjane Satrapi
“If l give you the right conditions to work, and I put you in a beautiful place, where you feel a little bit better about yourself because you know your work is being used for something greater than producing a profit, maybe you will get more creative, maybe you will want to work more.” IfsKnowsWantGivingFeelsLittlesBeautifulUsedBitsCreativeGreaterConditionsLittle BitProfitAbout YourselfBeautiful Places Author:Brunello Cucinelli
“I think I've got a responsibility to be home a little bit more, be available to my family a little bit more and do some things to help make our country better. I don't know what that is right now, but we'll see.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesCountryHelpingHomeBitsResponsibilityRight NowLittle BitMy FamilyAvailableOur Country Author:Tony Dungy
“Sometimes you do have to scare people a little bit: if someone is not acting in the best interest of the show, then maybe you need to scream and yell a little bit, or let them know you're in charge.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsLittlesSometimesShowsBitsInterestActingLittle BitScareScream Author:Steven Levitan
“You are [as an actor] aware that you don't want to repeat stuff, but you want to use what has worked. But you don't want to be accused of just going over the old thing, you know? You want it to start growing a little bit more.” KnowsWantLittlesUseActorsStuffBitsGrowingLittle BitRepeatsAccusedOld Things Author:Jude Law
“If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.” IfsKnowsWantShouldHumansLittlesBitsHuman BeingsPsychologyLittle Bit Author:Marjane Satrapi
“Irish is harder to pull off. I know southern people and I really like the midwest, so I can tap into that a little bit. It's easier to sound angry with southern than it is Irish. Yelling Irish you can sound like an angry Leprechaun. I think me screaming like I am going to kill you in Irish doesn't work.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLittlesI CanBitsSoundEasierLittle BitHarderAngrySouthernYellingMidwestLeprechaun Author:Norman Reedus
“for me the most fun of my career is to bring a little bit of irreverence to characters. And, you know, I don't think that the producers were expecting me to be as irreverent as I am.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesCharacterFunBitsCareersLittle BitProducersExpectingIrreverentIrreverence Author:Dean Winters
“If you want to be an artist, go to every art gallery, if you want to be in movies, see movies! You have to participate in whichever world you're trying to enter! You have to know what's going on. You can be the best artist in the world but if you don't know one thing about which gallery to go to, you're never going to get it shown in the right place. Learn a little bit about the business of whichever art you're trying to get into. Without it, you will be lost.” IfsKnowsWorldWantTryingLittlesArtArtistLostBitsOne ThingLittle BitBeing The BestGalleryRight PlaceArt GalleriesBest Artist Author:John Waters
“The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about kids, which is a little bit like putting the experience under a magnifying glass, you realize you have no idea how you thought as a kid. I've come to the conclusion that most of the things that we remember about our childhood are lies. We all have memories that stand out from when we were kids, but they're really just snapshots. You can't remember how you reacted because your whole head is different when you stand aside.” ThinkingKnowsWritingLittlesIdeasDifferentWholeKidsRememberLyingBitsRealizingMemoriesSeeingOne ThingChildhoodLittle BitOur ChildrenGlassesConclusionNo IdeaStanding OutSnapshotsMagnifyingMagnifying Glass Author:Stephen King
“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
“I think vampires have gotten maybe a little bit silly in the last years where they're all wearing crushed velvet and reading poetry and making sweet love to their victims, you know, it's not really all that scary.” ThinkingKnowsYearsLittlesLastsReadingBitsSweetLittle BitVictimScarySillyVampireLast YearCrushedVelvetSweet LoveReading Poetry Author:Josh Hartnett
“Even though I'm an actor, even though I know a little bit about film, I very much view things as an audience member. For me, whether it's TV, film, theater, whatever, it's a big movie, a small movie, whatever it is, I look for the truth in it. I look for the honesty. I just look for if it feels honest and real to me.” IfsKnowsFeelsLooksLittlesRealBigsFilmActorsBitsViewsAudienceHonestHonestyTvsMembersLittle BitTheaterBig Movie Author:Elisabeth Moss
“It's very hard sometimes when you can't crack something or can't solve something and you keep trying and trying and you know it's falling a little bit short. That's very hard, but then when you finally do it, it's very rewarding and the process is good too, I like working with people this way.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingLittlesSometimesHardFallBitsProcessLittle BitSolveCracksKeep Trying Author:Steve Martin
“My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I'm going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.” KnowsLittlesIdeasFacesBitsStageLittle BitYour FacePersonaBetter Than YouPretentiousCrass Author:Bo Burnham
“For me there's insecurity when you're releasing an album because you spend all of this time working on that one thing and then once it's done, it's done. After you put it out there to the public you never know which songs are going to work or even if the album is going to work as a whole so there is a little bit of nervousness around predicting what the numbers will be and if it's going to be well-received.” IfsKnowsWellsLittlesDoneWholeSongBitsNumbersOne ThingLittle BitAlbumsInsecurityGoing To WorkPredictingNervousness Author:John Legend
“I'm just a little bit tired If you know what I mean Don't want to be in a crowd When I can be in a dream.” IfsKnowsWantMeanLittlesI CanDreamBitsSadnessSadLittle BitTiredCrowds Author:Jim Steinman
“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 know I made plenty of mistakes in my tenure. But one of the things that you learn is to be very careful and to protect yourself down the road a little bit, which is to say you've got to think ahead and think where is the story going to go? What are all the possible outcomes? And how do I protect the president from unexpected twists and turns in the road?” ThinkingKnowsLittlesMadeStoriesTurnsBitsPresidentMistakeProtectLittle BitCarefulPlentyOutcomesUnexpectedTwistsDown The RoadTenureProtect YourselfTwists And TurnsTurns In The Road Author:Dee Dee Myers
“In all the dictatorships, there's such a non-understanding of what human beings are. I mean, if you believe in the Bible, you have the story of Adam and Eve and God tells them, "Do whatever you want. The only thing you shouldn't do is eat the apple." What do they do the first thing? They eat the apple. So if you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.” IfsKnowsWantShouldFirstsBelieveHumansMeanLittlesStoriesBitsUnderstandingHuman BeingsPsychologyLittle BitApplesAdamDictatorshipIf You BelieveAdam And EveDo Whatever You Want Author:Marjane Satrapi
“Whenever you see somebody's style you feel like you get to know them a little bit better by how they're dressed.” KnowsFeelsLittlesBitsStyleLike YouLittle Bit Author:Chanel West Coast
“I'll have spent most of the day before the match doing some preparation. That's a little bit like studying for your exams. You need to know the personalities involved, what the stories are surrounding the game and how they've come into this game. You do a lot of preparation. I like to go in knowing more than I need.” KnowsNeedsLittlesStoriesGamesBitsKnowingStudyPersonalityInvolvedLittle BitPreparationExamKnowing More Author:Jill Douglas
“I tend to work well within a deadline. If I know I have to get something in three weeks, I tend to A, enjoy myself a little bit more, and B, really work well.” IfsKnowsWellsLittlesThreeBitsEnjoyWeekLittle BitDeadline Author:Jenny Lewis
“I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?” KnowsFeelsLittlesPersonsBitsNiceLittle BitAbstractGood PersonPerfectionist Author:Jack Nicholson
“I realize that in a happy life, making your bed should play a very small part, I don't know why this is so helpful to people getting started on a happiness project, but for some reason, making your bed - it's concrete, it's manageable. There's a big difference between having a bed that's unmade and a bed that's made. That little bit of outer order in people's lives seem to help them get started. So, that's a very small thing that you can do.” PeopleKnowsShouldLittlesMadeReasonPlayHelpingBigsSeemsOrderBitsCan DoRealizingDifferencesBedProjectsLittle BitHelpfulHappy LifeConcreteSmall ThingsSmall PartsManageableGetting Started Author:Gretchen Rubin
“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
“One of the many things I love about working with Ryan Murphy is that you're always thin-sliced in this business. You walk into a room and people want you to be how you look or how you're perceived or whatever it is in that 10 minutes that hey meet you. I think Ryan [Murphy] has an intuition that looks a little bit deeper and sees things that other people might not see in you - sometimes you might not even see in yourself - but that he knows are there and that he might want to get to grow and stretch with as an actor.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantLooksLittlesSometimesMightActorsGrowsBitsWalksRoomsMinutesLittle BitDeeperIntuitionHeyThings I LoveMurphy Author:Matt Bomer
“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
“Most of the drug CEOs I know, they're not themselves - they're what people want them to be. It's pretty obvious of the different drug executives. They're old white men, very buttoned up. They're appropriate, so to speak. I'm a little bit more irreverent, and I'm not going to change just because I have this job.” PeopleKnowsMenWantLittlesDifferentJobsSpeakBitsWhiteDrugLittle BitObviousAppropriateExecutivesCeoWhite ManIrreverent Author:Martin Shkreli
“Television is where you earn regular money so you can plan a little bit but even then only when you have a regular gig. If you're just doing the odd appearance, you don't know if it will carry on.” IfsKnowsLittlesBitsPlansTelevisionLittle BitAppearanceOddGigs Author:Bill Bailey
“I've always felt a little different than everyone - you know, most of the other kids in my class - and I didn't quite see things the way they did or I didn't experience things the same way they did. I often felt a little bit like an outcast.” KnowsWayLittlesDifferentKidsFeltBitsClassLittle BitOutcast Author:Erin Davie
“Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And you can go, 'Ah, you know what? Maybe a little bit more red over here...maybe add some blue over here.' You can sit back and look at the painting.” KnowsLooksLittlesBitsEnvironmentPaintingLittle BitRedBlueAddStudiosControlled Author:Zakk Wylde
“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
“You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.” KnowsLittlesDifferentHandsBitsLittle BitPot Author:Larry Wall
“If someone asks you to run the 100 yard dash as fast as you can, you'll run the 100 dash as fast as you think you can. But if you put someone along side you who runs a little faster, you are going to run faster - whoa - I better step it up a little bit. I do things even I didn't know I was capable of.” IfsThinkingKnowsLittlesRunningAsksBitsSidesStepsLittle BitCapableFasterYards Author:Kenny Rogers
“When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.” ThinkingKnowsWorldFeelsLittlesEndsBitsLittle BitEnd Of The World Author:John Hodgman
“If someone criticizes my child it's gonna hurt me a little bit, but it's my child, you know, and I love it regardless.” IfsKnowsChildrenLittlesBitsHurtLittle BitMy ChildrenCriticizeHurt Me Author:Dan Fogelberg
“There are really cool or funny videos, or visually stunning photos, and that's fine, but none of them really give you more when you close that tab, you know? I try to find stuff that a little bit, in a tiny way changes how you see something about the world.” KnowsWorldWayGivingTryingLittlesStuffBitsFineLittle BitTinyVideoReally CoolStunningFunny Videos Author:Maria Popova
“We know a little bit about a lot of things. Just enough to make us dangerous.” KnowsLittlesEnoughBitsDangerousLittle Bit Author:Dean Winchester
“It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for.” IfsKnowsLittlesBitsProcessSecretLittle BitStudiosSigningInfuriatingSigning Up Author:Doug Liman
“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