“I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.” KnowsWantGuyMorningPlanesClockSecretary Author:Vijay Mallya
“Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.” ThinkingGuyMorningWake UpBad GuysRight Guy Author:Ray Stevenson
“I once waited on Sean Connery. A long time ago. This was at the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh. They closed down the restaurant for him, and when he walked in with his morning paper, all the waitresses started squealing. He was a big guy, bigger than in the movies.” LongBigsGuyMorningPaperLong TimeBiggerRestaurantsHotelLong Time AgoWaitressSeanEdinburghBig GuysSquealing Author:Tony D'Souza
“I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight.” PeopleNeedsNightGuyStuffHoursSleepMorningMinutesOfficeEuropeOnlineAfternoonMidnightNapsNeed SleepAfternoon Naps Author:Matt Mullenweg
“In theater, there's a lot of discipline involved in doing eight shows a week for a year and a half. It's nice to be able to bring some of that bag of tools with you over to the film world, where you don't have the rehearsal, you don't have an audience. You don't have a month of rehearsal to examine these words, and you meet the guy who's going to play your brother the morning that you shoot the scene. So you need a bag of tools.” WorldNeedsYearsPlayShowsAbleFilmGuyHalfMorningAudienceNiceWeekBrotherMonthsDisciplineInvolvedSceneToolsTheaterEightBagsRehearsalYour Brother Author:William Sadler
“I consider myself a pretty rounded guy. I've done pretty elite things in business, sport and academics and all of a sudden I woke up one morning and I'm a 'big, black, British, gay guy'. That was frustrating at times.” DoneBigsGuySportsBlackMorningGayBritishElitesFrustratingGay Guy Author:John Amaechi
“Not all television scripts are created equal. And the process is ridiculous. They send you a script and want you in the next morning. That's not how acting works. You can do anything to me as an actor; I'm a very resilient guy. Just don't rush me. If you ask me to do it immediately with no time to prepare, I know you have contempt for actors.” IfsKnowsWantGuyNextActorsAsksProcessCan DoActingMorningTelevisionEqualScriptsRidiculousAsk MeContemptResilient Author:Holt McCallany
“Recovering alcoholic guys wake up in the morning, and they have to think of a reason to get up, and then, once they're up, to not have a drink. It's like all these little heroic battles they have that they fight with and against every day of their lives.” ThinkingLittlesReasonGuyFightingMorningDrinkBattleWake UpGet UpHeroicAlcoholicsRecoveringRecovering Alcoholics Author:Liam Neeson
“People make a big deal about podcasts but it's basically an online radio show with the sound effects and sidekicks, but because you can curse it's more like satellite radio. Most of the podcasters were morning guys who were fired when Clear Channel decimated the radio landscape.” PeopleShowsBigsGuySoundDealsMorningClearEffectsRadioLandscapeCurseOnlineBig DealSatellitesSidekicksSound Effects Author:Bill Burr
“I'd get up in the morning, get ready to go to school, and I would dread it. I hated it. My mother would have the radio on. And the guy on the radio sounded like he was having so much fun. And I knew, when his program was over, he wasn't going to go to school.” SchoolMotherGuyFunMorningReadyProgramRadioGet UpHatedDread Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I'm the guy that gets up at three in the morning to jot down an entire sheet of lyrics for something that won't be recorded for six months. You have to get it down when you can, because thoughts are fluid.” GuyThreeMorningMonthsSixGet UpSheetsSix MonthsFluid Author:Corey Taylor
“(J)ust to clarify: If you go into every situation saying there's absolutely nothing worth fighting over, you will inevitably end up on a cot sleeping next to a guy named Tiny, bringing him breakfast in his cell every morning, and spending your afternoons ironing his boxers. Or, in the case of the French, you might spend your afternoon rounding up Jews to send to Germany, but you get the point.” IfsEndsMightGuyFightingNextSleepSituationMorningCasesJewSpendingTinyCellsGermanyOver YouBreakfastAfternoonEvery MorningAbsolutely NothingBoxersUst Author:Jonah Goldberg
“(Lake) Lanier is a good fishing lake. Everybody tells me I put my dock on the best fishing hole in the lake. In fact, I've sat on the dock and caught a 12 pound bass. I saw another guy catch about a 40 pound and 26 pound striper one morning In front of my dock, and I used to catch a lot of 8 to 9 pound largemouth around it.” FactsUsedGuyMorningSawsFrontsCaughtHolesSatLakesFishingPoundsBassOther GuysDocks Author:Luke Appling
“I certainly don't agree with the bodybuilders who say you can get big forearms just by squeezing the dumbbell handles when doing curls. In a few cases this may be true, but those guys would build big forearms by merely eating eggs in the morning. Most bodybuilders, myself included, have to work very hard for any kind of meaningful forearm development.” KindMayHardBigsGuyMorningCasesDevelopmentEatingAgreeMeaningfulHandleBeing TrueEggsCurlsSqueezingBodybuilderDumbbells Author:Lou Ferrigno
“People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things had been projected on me because no one knew what to make of this white guy who showed up and made toast at 5 o'clock every morning.” PeopleKnowsMadeStoriesGuySexCommunityWhiteMorningPrisonClockEvery MorningMurdererInventingToastsHorrificOffendersCommunity ServiceWhite GuysSex OffendersArsonistsInventing Stories Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. ... That can keep me awake for days.” KnowsDoeHumorFunnyGuyMorningWorryKnow HowRidiculousAwakeRidiculous Things Author:Billy Connolly
“Everything you do, burns calories. Getting up in the morning, 100 calories; kicking the hooker out of your bed, another 100; diapering your monkey, 35 calories; laughing at a midget, fun and 10 calories; catching your girlfriend with another guy, 2000-3000 calories, depending on backswings.” HumorFunnyGuyFunMorningLaughingBedGirlfriendMonkeysCatchingOther GuysKickingCaloriesYour GirlfriendMidget Author:Dave Attell
“I could turn on my radio in the morning when I was getting dressed for school and hear Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and think this is the music. Now that music is art. Ellington is art. At that time it was just what you heard on the radio. Cole Porter was just a guy who wrote pretty songs and Billie Holliday would sing them.” ThinkingArtSchoolGuySongTurnsMorningHeardMusic IsRadioFrankTurn-onDukesGetting DressedGoodman Author:Woody Allen
“Guys, just remember, if you get lucky, if you make a lot of money, if you get out and buy a lot of stuff--it's gonna break. You got your biggest, fanciest mansion in the world. It has air conditioning. It's got a pool. Just think of all the pumps that are going to go out. Or go to a yacht basin any place in the world. Nobody is smiling, and I'll tell you why. Something broke that morning. The generator's out; the microwave oven doesn't work . . . Things just don't mean happiness.” IfsThinkingWorldMeanRememberGuyStuffBreakMorningAirLuckyBrokePoolLots Of MoneyConditioningPlaces In The WorldPumpsMansionsOvensYachtMicrowavesGeneratorAir Conditioning Author:Ross Perot
“In life, you gotta do something. And the medical journals keep on saying if you've got a goal or some passion in life, you'll outlive all the other guys who - the bank manager that retired. They gave him a rocking chair and he rocked himself to death. So you gotta have a passion, whatever it happens to be. Whether it's this or something else, it doesn't matter, as long as it's a reason to get out of bed every morning, as my accountant of 50 years keeps on saying.” IfsYearsLongMatterReasonHappensGuyPassionGoalCommunityMorningBedMedicalManagersChairsEvery MorningJournalRetiredOther GuysAccountantsRocking Chairs Author:James Wright
“One of the great thing about New York is the neighborhood - you go for your walk in the morning and you know your dry cleaning lady, you know the guy in your coffee shop - that's your neighborhood and I love that.” KnowsGuyWalksMorningNew YorkCoffeeGreat ThingsDryShopsNeighborhoodCleaningCoffee ShopDry Cleaning Author:Piper Perabo
“There are a lot of Ellroy lifts, man. This guy went to school. But then there's a willful thing that comes over me - God gives it to me - where I go, "That's real nice, let's just go home, pat yourself on the back, good dog, good dog, and wake up in the morning and go to work."” MenGivingRealHomeSchoolGuyMorningNiceDogWake UpLiftsThis GuyGood Dog Author:James Ellroy
“As an actor, you have to be able to take all sides as well. You have to at least be able to understand things. No bad guy looks in the mirror every morning and says, boy, I'm gonna be a real bad guy this morning. He goes after his own what he's after, just like us good guys. You kind of have to take a stand and, a lot of times, you have to take the writer's stand or the stand of the character this writer has created.” WellsLooksKindRealCharacterAbleGuyActorsSidesBoysMorningMirrorsEvery MorningBad GuysGood Guy Author:Michael McKean
“When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and says to himself, 'You're presidential material,'” GuyNextMorningMaterialsWake UpPresidentialSenateGovernorsMansions Author:Geraldine Ferraro
“Johnny Jewel is how people were maybe two hundred years ago. Back then, when people got up in the morning, they knew what they had to do to get through the day - there were 100% less decisions. Nowadays, we have to decide what we want to buy in grocery stores, what job to take, what work to do. But not Johnny. For him, it's all right there - it's a freer state, and that's what my music is looking for... ... To understand Johnny, you should think of William Blake. He was the same kinda guy.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldYearsTwoStatesJobsGuyDecisionMorningMusic IsHundredYears AgoStoresJewelsGroceriesGrocery StoresBlake Author:Tom Verlaine
“Sometimes I train in the middle of the night, all on my own. Can't sleep, don't want to sleep, get up, go to the gym, work. This is early for me, being here at half ten in the morning, this is really early, and I'm only here because I screwed up yesterday and kept you hanging around. Other times I'll call up my wrestling coach, or my jiu jitsu coach, or my deep-tissue guy, and want to really focus on one part of what I do. I train in all these different disciplines.” WantDifferentSometimesNightGuyMy OwnSleepHalfMorningFocusMiddleDisciplineTenTrainCoachesYesterdayGet UpGymWrestlingTissuesMiddle Of The NightScrewed UpCan't SleepHanging AroundJiu JitsuWant To Sleep Author:Conor McGregor
“I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.” RunningUsedGuySportsMorningFieldsTypeGet UpStretchingType Of GuyWarming Up Author:Bo Jackson
“I don't know, but I always loved that image of a girl putting toenail polish on a guy - her boyfriend, or something like that. Or a guy waking up in the morning and reaching over and putting on his girlfriend's shirt. Like Keith Richards putting on one of Anita Pallenberg's blouses, or Courtney Love putting nail polish on Kurt Cobain.” KnowsGuyGirlMorningWake UpShirtsGirlfriendReachingWakingNailsPolishKeithWaking Up In The MorningCobainNail PolishCourtneyBlousesToenails Author:Marc Jacobs
“Time is the guy at the amusement park who paints shirts with an airbrush. He sprays out the color in a fine mist until it's just lonely particles floating in the air, waiting to be plastered in place. And what comes of it all, the design on the shirt at the end of the day, usually isn't much to see. I suspect that whoever he is, wakes up in the morning and wonders what he ever saw in it.” EndsGuyWaitingWonderMorningSawsAirDesignColorFineLonelyWake UpPaintShirtsParksThe End Of The DaySuspectsFloatingT ShirtAmusementParticlesMistSprayAmusement Parks Author:Ian Caldwell
“Successful people have control over the time in their life. A shoemaker who owns his own shop gets up one morning and says, "I'm not opening." That's a successful guy.” PeopleGuyMorningSuccessfulOpeningGet UpShopsSuccessful People Author:Rod Steiger
“My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him.” IfsDifferentGuyThreeFatherMorningNeededAreasDoctorsPatientGet UpGentleHumanistOld FashionedGpsGreat Guy Author:Roselee Goldberg
“Someone wrote to me asking me to illustrate a missed connection that "hasn't happened yet." This guy has seen the same girl waiting at a bus stop on his morning commute for weeks, and has been trying to find a way to approach her. He thought it would be fun to put up a Missed Connections poster [of my painting] on the corner where she waits and see what happens. It is kind of an intriguing idea but there's something a bit too manipulative about it for my liking. It's a fine line between being creative and stalking!” WayTryingKindHas BeensIdeasHappensWould BeGuyGirlFunBitsWaitingLinesMorningCreativeHappenedWeekPaintingFineApproachConnectionsAskingCornersBusBe CreativeThis GuyIntriguingPostersStalkingFine LinesManipulativeBus StopsMissed Connections Author:Sophie Blackall
“When you see a white guy at three in the morning on your beat in an alley, you kind of - "What's this guy doing here?"” KindGuyThreeWhiteMorningBeatsThis GuyAlleysWhite Guys Author:Joe Arpaio
“The big difference is, as a man, I can go to a bar at two in the morning and people will be like "He's just a fun guy! That's cool that he can balance all these things." But if you see a person that you know who has two young kids and is a mom, there's no way those perceptions are the same. It's like "Oh, there must be a problem." That's usually what women face.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWayPersonsI CanTwoProblemBigsKidsFacesYoungGuyFunDifferencesMorningMomBalancePerceptionBars Author:Robert Greene
“It's the worst thing if you're sitting there in the theater, going, "Oh, that's the guy who dates this person and likes to do this in the morning and that in the afternoon." Then you're just watching a brand, as opposed to an actor.” IfsPersonsGuyActorsMorningWorstSittingTheaterLikesBrandsAfternoonWorst Things Author:Michael Fassbender
“I had heard that Tom [Cruise] was the same way, that he is incredibly dedicated. I was very excited to meet him and I was, honest to God, weirdly surprised that the guy makes me look lazy. I think he does think I'm a hard worker, but he makes me look like I'm doing nothing. The guy is at the gym before anybody in the morning.” ThinkingWayLooksDoeHardGuyMorningHeardHonestHard WorkWorkersExcitedLazyGymDedicatedTomsDoing NothingCruiseHard Worker Author:Patrick Heusinger
“When you're in a band and you're a girl, you know, guys just don't ... it's not the same kind of a groove as a girl walking up wearing a mac with nothing on underneath, or knocking on someone's door at three in the morning.” KnowsKindGuyGirlThreeMorningDoorsWalkingBandKnockingMacsGroove Author:Chrissie Hynde