“I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.” WayLifeEnoughWantedThreeActingCitiesDestinyFailingCollegeNeededInvolvedDirectorsMy FriendsJazzUniversityCreditCinemaGradesGood EnoughGymInvolvementInvolvingPianist Author:Dustin Hoffman
“My favorite memories were never about candy or anything like that. When I got to be a teenager, my friends and I used to get together and do all kinds of crazy stuff on Halloween night. We had a ball starting trouble. Now that I'm more mature I realize that wasn't the right way to act, but it was the time of my life back then.” WayKindTogetherUsedNightStuffRealizingMemoriesTroubleCrazyMy FriendsBallsStartingMy FavoriteAll KindsTeenagerMatureHalloweenRight WayCandyGet TogetherTime Of My LifeHalloween NightFavorite Memories Author:Tony Harrison
“All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.” PeopleWayRunningCertainHousePerfectCreativeCuttingWonderfulMy FriendsCookingMeant To BeAmbitiousMarvelousBe CreativeHousewife Author:Diana Vreeland
“All of my friends went to college and I got a job at Circle Pizza, where I worked for 24 hours. I had to call my mother four times to ask her how to spell Parmesan. I'm not kidding. I was a terrible speller. I think I was really nervous that I somehow didn't feel right out in the world in that way.” ThinkingWorldWayFeelsJobsMotherAsksHoursFourCollegeTerribleMy FriendsCirclesNervousSpellsPizzaFeels Right Author:Sarah Paulson
“You know, I'm a total perfectionist, and I labor over trying to get things right. Whether we're putting together an opening for the Masters broadcast or when I was writing with my friend Eli Stillman a book about my dad called 'Always By My Side,' I'm always trying to find a way to do something better.” KnowsWayWritingTryingBookTogetherSidesMastersDadMy FriendsLaborMy DadOpeningSomething BetterAlways TryingPerfectionist Author:Jim Nantz
“[N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.” IfsMenWayMayWarUseRunningLawFallDoubtDangerWillingArmsOughtBattleMy FriendsDifficultyFasterKneesNo DoubtAvoidingEscapingUnrighteousnessAvoiding Death Author:Socrates
“I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up.” WayGrowing UpGrowingMy FriendsTreatsGolfTournamentsGolf Tournaments Author:Jamie Farr
“My friend says touche way too much. He's a touche bag.” WayToo MuchMy FriendsBags Author:Demetri Martin
“My girlfriend wants an open relationship. I said no way. What kind of man would I be if I had to tell my friends I date you?” IfsMenWayWantKindSaidMy FriendsGirlfriendMy GirlfriendOpen Relationship Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“Your heart, my friend, is the size of a stadium. If you try to fill it with small things - a new car, a vacation, a promotion at work, a bigger home, a stock portfolio - a mournful echo will fill your life. But if you fill your stadium with all of humanity and search for ways to make their lives better each day, you will find yourself in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing in the right way.” IfsWayTryingHeartHomeHumanityCarMy FriendsBiggerSizeRight ThingEach DayFinding YourselfVacationEchoesRight WayRight TimeSmall ThingsPromotionRight PlaceStadiumsDoing The Right ThingPortfoliosNew Car Author:Roy H. Williams
“That's the way I came up, writing and recording at home. I developed by playing everything myself. I was a drummer first and that's my favorite instrument to play. Once I get the drums done, everything else comes real quick. Also, we track in my friends' garage, which is really small ... there's not really room to record live with a band.” WayWritingFirstsRealDonePlayHomeRoomsRecordsBandMy FriendsInstrumentsMy FavoriteTrackDrummerGarage Author:Pete Yorn
“Shopping, eating, and being with my friends. So, anytime that I am at home chillin', I will find a way to shop online. I'm like, "If I'm not allowed out of the house tonight then I am shopping online!” IfsWayHomeHouseEatingMy FriendsShopsTonightOnlineShopping Author:Miley Cyrus
“I was fortunate that by the time I was born, there were a lot of comforts and at the same time I lived in a neighborhood where it was brought to my eyes every single day that people didn't live like me. Every day I knew that many of my friends "got relief." That was important in my thinking about the world, thinking that not everybody lived that way.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayImportantEyeBornComfortMy FriendsLike MeFortunateReliefNeighborhood Author:Grace Paley
“Once when I was at Newark Mall, me, my friends, my cousin, and my bodyguard were shopping and looking for suitcases cuz we had all these clothes. On our way out, two girls started whispering. The next thing we know, we had at least 200-300 people walking behind us, like the whole mall!” PeopleKnowsWayTwoWholeGirlNextBehindsWalkingClothesMy FriendsShoppingCousinWhisperingMallsSuitcasesMy CousinCuzBodyguardNewark Author:Lil Romeo
“I've been playing videogames since before my career in this business, but what happened is several videogame companies were recruiting students back then and I applied with barely any hope of getting accepted to any of the companies. However, I got accepted! Although my path was already set to become a piano instructor, I chose the path of videogames instead. My parents cried, my friends were worried and my teacher was stunned (we're talking about way back when game music wasn't as popular as it is these days).” WayGamesParentCompanyTalkingCareersPathTeacherHappenedStudentsMy FriendsAcceptedWorriedThese DaysPianoCriedBack WhenStunnedInstructorsVideogameWay Back When Author:Yoko Shimomura
“I'm happier about my friends than I am about my work. I still have a long way to go with work. My friends, that's the one thing I'm sure about.” WayLongStillsOne ThingMy FriendsLong WayLong Way To Go Author:Azzedine Alaia
“I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!” KnowsWayWritingMy FriendsProducers Author:Rod Serling
“One of the main reasons I'm vegan is because I'm ethically lazy. My friends who eat meat or who eat eggs have to sometimes wrestle with the ethical consequences of their actions. By being vegan, I take the easy way out.” WaySometimesReasonActionEasyMy FriendsConsequenceMeatLazyEggsEthicalVeganEasy Way Author:Moby
“We can't just go, like, oh that'd be cool then not do it. So it's one of those weird things. You gain all these things on your journey. You get smarter. It's interesting how you are who you are in high school in a lot of ways. When I look at my friends, I feel no different about them than I did when I was in high school. I mean that in a great way. They've taken on a micro scale what they were doing and making it bigger.” WayFeelsLooksMeanDifferentSchoolInterestingTakenJourneyHigh SchoolMy FriendsGainsBiggerWho You AreScalesSmarterBeing CoolWeird Things Author:Zack Snyder
“When you think of a social network, you have these two-way interactions: "Are you my friend? Yes? No? Yes?" Like LinkedIn, it's business oriented, but it's all about establishing connections. You connect to me through my other connections, and that sort of thing, and you sort of define who your friends are. Twitter doesn't have that.” ThinkingWayTwoSocialMy FriendsConnectionsInteractionTwo WaysSocial NetworkLinkedinWho Your Friends Are Author:Biz Stone
“It was just cool to see my friends so inspired, and I'm by no means the biggest rapper in the world, but I'm on my way up. I feel like I'm going to keep going and delivering good music every time. It was cool to show people that it's real to do what you want to do.” PeopleWorldWayWantFeelsMeanRealShowsMy FriendsInspiredWhat You WantMy WayKeep GoingRapperDelivering Author:Big Sean
“I am a very emotional human being and would say that I handle emotional pain in a healthy way by always letting it out and not keeping it in. There is no better feeling than allowing those tears to flow when I am feeling emotionally constricted. Crying feels so good sometimes, and I do it when I'm happy, sad, stressed, scared. I like to believe that tears are my friend.” WayFeelsBelieveHumansSometimesFeelingsPainHuman BeingsCryTearsEmotionalHealthyMy FriendsFlowScaredHandleAllowingStressedEmotional Pain Author:Renee Marino
“I ain't going to lie: I was happy, man. Me and my sisters and my brother was mad cool. We all did the music thing. My dad had the keys to the church, so we would go over there and jam. So I just want my kids to have fun the right way. I want their type of trouble to be, like, "Aw, Dad, I locked the keys in the car." I don't want to hear about, "Oh, my friend just got shot."” MenWayWantKidsLyingFunChurchTroubleCarBrotherKeysTypeDadShotsMy FriendsMadMy DadHaving FunMy BrotherMy SisterLockedRight WayJamHappy Man Author:Fetty Wap
“Sometime during the 1990s, when I was teaching philosophy at UCSD, my friend, colleague, and music teacher, Carol Plantamura, discussed the possibility of teaching a course together looking at ways in which various literary works (plays, stories, novels) had been treated as operas, and how different themes emerged in the opera and in its original. One of the pairings we planned to use was Mann's great novella and Britten's opera. Unfortunately, the course was never taught, but the idea remained with me.” WayIdeasDifferentPhilosophyPlayStoriesUseTogetherCoursesNovelTeacherTeachingPossibilityTaughtMy FriendsOriginalsVariousTreatedThemeOperaColleaguesCarolsLiterary WorksMusic TeacherWork Play Author:Philip Kitcher
“I just simply believe in having purposeful relations, period. That's what its about at the end of the day. However, I do appreciate people that are individualistic, mainly because I'm an impressionable soul and my friends become my big sisters and brothers in a way.” PeopleWayBelieveSoulEndsBigsBrotherPeriodsMy FriendsAppreciateRelationThe End Of The DayBrothers And SistersIndividualisticBig SisterImpressionableAppreciate People Author:Aeriel Miranda
“My friend Phil Morrison directed a lot of my favorite videos back in the mid- to late-90s - all the Yo La Tengo videos that were funny, a Juliana Hatfield video. He was such an influence with me, and I wanted to do a video the way Phil used to do videos. I did that for Phil.” WayWantedUsedInfluenceLateMy FriendsMy FavoriteVideo Author:Tom Scharpling
“There are producers that have been my friends for many years that I'm still a big fan of, from Boyz Noize to solo acts. Justice. It really varies. All the way to like...sometimes I'll just find some dude out of Chicago that makes a great house song. I'm feeling a lot of the deep house stuff, Jamie Jones.” WayYearsHas BeensStillsSometimesFeelingsBigsSongHouseStuffJusticeFansMy FriendsProducersChicagoSoloVaryJamie Author:A-Trak
“So many of my friends have always been women growing up... I always feel slightly more comfortable around women because with guys in general there's always more of a danger zone... it's very aggressive sometimes the way guys act with each other, putting each other down and calling each other names, so I was always too sensitive for that and used to hang out with the girls. And they were always really funny to me.” WayFeelsSometimesUsedGuyGirlNamesGrowing UpGrowingDangerCallingComfortableMy FriendsDown AndSensitiveZoneHanging OutAggressive Author:Paul Feig
“I'm very involved in my business and with my family and my friends. I don't play the social world very much, and not to promote my product. I do it for the philanthropic problems because there I feel that I'm making a difference, and that I'm helping. So I do it in a soulful way.” WorldWayFeelsPlayHelpingProblemSocialDifferencesProductsInvolvedMy FriendsMy FamilyMaking A DifferencePhilanthropicSoulful Author:Donna Karan
“I did Urban Zen for myself, to make clothes for me and my friends, a similar philosophy to when I started Donna Karan. Except this time I hope it will stay that way so that I will be able to support young designers and mentor them.” WayPhilosophyAbleYoungSupportClothesMy FriendsDesignerMentorUrban Author:Donna Karan
“My dad struggled with cocaine addiction, and we actually went to rehab with him too. I remember having extensive talks with him about how I was wired a certain way, how I wouldn't be able to drink and do drugs the same way my friends got to.” WayAbleRememberCertainDadDrinkDrugMy FriendsAddictionMy DadCocaineRehab Author:Ryan Montgomery
“Lots of things inspire me. My friends and my family, obviously. I really like to travel, so very inspired by traveling and meeting new people along the way. Also, music and the arts, like film and television. I like to read a lot too; that stuff inspires me.” PeopleWayArtFilmStuffTelevisionInspireMy FriendsMy FamilyMeetingsInspiredMeeting New PeopleFilm And TelevisionVery Inspired Author:Jessica McNamee
“I'm inspired by many of my friends, colleagues, and the extraordinary people I've been fortunate enough to meet along the way.” PeopleWayEnoughMy FriendsExtraordinaryInspiredFortunateColleaguesOrdinary People Author:Alicia Keys
“Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed on this long way of taking birth again and again?” ThinkingWayLongWaterFourTearsBirthOceanMy FriendsShedAgain And AgainLong Way Author:Gautama Buddha
“Writing relies on very few things, my friend. All you need to write is your brain, a way to convey the story into existence (pen, computer, whatever), and a place in which to do it (office, kitchen table, lunar brothel).” WayNeedsWritingStoriesExistenceBrainOfficeComputerMy FriendsTablesRelyKitchenPensKitchen TableBrothels Author:Chuck Wendig
“I wish I hadn't worked so hard; I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me; I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings; I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends; and I wish I had let myself be happier. It's an extraordinary list of getting in your own way, isn't it?” WayHardFeelingsWishMy FriendsExtraordinaryExpectedListsTrue LifeTrue To Myself Author:Tom Hiddleston
“For me, Corsica is a place that I visited with my friends, maybe five or six times over the years, and I'm so happy there that I wanted to make a painting about it almost just to share with my friends, but it's so difficult when all your feelings are one way, and they're very sort of happy and pleasant. It's impossible to make a painting about it.” WayYearsFeelingsWantedDifficultFiveImpossibleSharePaintingSixMy FriendsOne WayPleasant Author:Nate Lowman
“Last season I scored 27 goals but still lost out against Robert Lewandowski. This season has started very well for me, but again I have some tough opponents, most notably with Anthony Modeste from FC Koln. I texted him the other day: "Keep calm, my friend." I am happy for him to be so successful. And in a certain way it even helps me. The better the other strikers are, the more I have to work to be to be ahead of them.” WayWellsStillsHelpingLastsCertainLostGoalSuccessfulMy FriendsToughSeasonsCalmOpponentsHelp MeStrikers Author:Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
“I think that most of my writer friends are really compulsive. I think that's great. It's wonderful for them. It's just not my bag. It's not the way I work. But again, it's probably why my friend has ten books out and I have two.” ThinkingWayTwoBookWonderfulTenMy FriendsBags Author:Junot Diaz
“I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that. It's probably because my friend Jack Womack has a thesis that he and I write the way we do because we're southern and we experienced the very tail end of the premeditated south.” WayWritingYearsEndsReasonLastsConsciousMy FriendsSouthSouthernTailsThesis Author:William Gibson
“I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about two years for this clumsy mechanism to get and try to sell us The Monkees. In 1977, it took about eight months for a slightly faster more refined mechanism to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since. The scene in Seattle that Nirvana came from: as soon as it had a label, it was on the runways of Paris.There's no grace period, so that's a way in which I see us losing the interstitial.” WayTryingYearsTwoFormWatchesGraceMonthsPeriodsSceneLosingMy FriendsWindowMachinesSellsEightLabelsFasterParisTwo YearsMechanismPunkPrimitiveSixtyRefinedClumsySeattleRunway Author:William Gibson
“There was things just like not being able to date or - I'm talking like 15, 16 - like just certain things that my friends started to do. Like, they started to get phone calls from girls or like, you know, go and hang out 10, 11 at night, kind of going to the movies. There were just certain things that - it's not that I couldn't do all of those things. It's just that every choice was really deliberate and conscious and thought out and sort of balanced against the religion in a way where I felt - I wasn't necessarily trying to convert at 12 like [my mother] was.” KnowsWayTryingKindAbleMotherNightCertainChoicesGirlFeltTalkingLike YouConsciousMy FriendsPhonesHanging OutBalancedDeliberatePhone Calls Author:Mahershala Ali
“I hate being too serious about anything. If I'm with my friend, I want to be having fun with him or her. And if anybody is reading my story, I want them to be not only reading the story, but I want them to feel they're having fun; that they're enjoying it. So any way you can make it more informal, more fun-filled, more amusing - instead of just a dry story that goes on and on - if there's any way to do that, I like to try and do it.” IfsWayWantFeelsTryingStoriesHateReadingFunEnjoySeriousGoes OnMy FriendsI HateFilledHaving FunDryAmusing Author:Stan Lee
“[Larry Laurenzano] gave me a junior high school saxophone to take to high school, because I was always taking one of our school horns home to practice and I couldn't afford to buy one. He gave my friend, Tyrone, a tuba and he gave me a junior high saxophone for each of us to use at Performing Arts High School with. My audition piece was selections from Rocky. We were not sophisticated. But we had some spirit about it. We enjoyed it, and it was a way out.” WayArtUseHomeSchoolSpiritPracticePiecesHigh SchoolMy FriendsEnjoyedPerformingSophisticatedAuditionsSelectionHornsJuniorsLarrySaxophoneJunior HighPerforming ArtsHigh School JuniorTubas Author:Jon Gordon
“No one really knows what I'm really like, and you won't unless you spend a day with me, or if you're my friend. No one ever knows what anyone is really like. Read all the interviews you want on them, it's just the media talking and you can't really get to know someone that way, obviously.” IfsKnowsWayWantTalkingMediaMy FriendsInterviews Author:Avril Lavigne
“I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way but for me part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.” KnowsWayTurnsKnowingAdventureMy FriendsNot KnowingOutlines Author:Joyce Maynard
“I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.” WayInspirationalLooksProblemGirlBeautyNiceFashionFriendsComfortHealthyMy FriendsAttractiveGymLunchBody Image Author:Adele
“I like working. I wish I could say I made a deliberate choice to comedy, but it's just what came my way. It's what the studios wanted to make. Some of my friends were doing it, like Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, and they offered me 'Talladega Nights.' It's just nice work if you can get it. It's a joyful day at work, making your friends laugh.” IfsWayMadeWantedNightChoicesWishLaughingComedyNiceMy FriendsStudiosMy WayAdamJoyfulDeliberateNice Work Author:John C. Reilly
“The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call!” IfsWayEnoughBigsHateMy FriendsPhonesLoudGossipPhone CallsUntrueOrdealsPublicists Author:Taylor Swift
“Making 'The Avengers' was very important to me, but it was also extremely arduous. I missed my friends and I missed my home, so I decided to throw them all on camera, which is the only way I seem to know to relate to people.” PeopleKnowsWayImportantHomeSeemsMy FriendsDecidedCamerasRelateAvengers Author:Joss Whedon