“I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.” IfsThinkingYearsMatterHappensEarthGuyTurnsLosesSpaceMillionsSunTheoryBaseballGiantsCosmicThis GuyBurn OutSnowball Author:Bill Lee
“I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.” ThinkingBookGuyRelationshipLandStudentsAngelWingsClassroomThis GuyBooks And MoviesAngel Wings Author:Richard Price
“People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.” PeopleYearsWellsLooksSaidStoriesGuyFourMediaAmountNewsCaughtPlusFour YearsThis GuyCorrectionsNews Media Author:Jayson Blair
“Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.” GuyLiteratureImagineBeatsCrapThis GuyHammersMike Author:Mickey Spillane
“In the first Chucky film, there's a scene in the elevator where a woman is just bringing food to a friend's home and they're in that cage elevator. She says, 'What an ugly doll,' and walks away. As the elevator begins to descend, Brad just decides he's going to drop this in and it was so simple but he just goes 'F*&k you,' and the audience went crazy. It was really a marker for us, and an evolution to understand what the potential of not just this killer, but this guy that obviously has some opinions as well.” FirstsWellsHomeFilmGuySimpleWalksOpinionAudienceCrazyEvolutionSceneUglyKillersCagesThis GuyDollsElevatorsBradMarkers Author:David Kirschner
“I have had a lot of your countrymen as co-stars, that's true. I quite like them both. It depends on the person. I don't think English makes the man nor does American, but I like this guy right here [Clive]. He's nice and tall, which means I never have a double chin - there's lots of shots of me looking up, and I'm a swan. Well, we all laugh but it's so true.” ThinkingMenWellsMeanPersonsDoeGuyStarsLaughingNiceHe ManDependsShotsTallThis GuyChinsSwansCountrymen Author:Julia Roberts
“Clearly, there's a real onus on you to do something correctly when everybody, at least in the United States, had a really clear, specific idea of what this guy looked like - and even more so, what he looked like as Clark Kent and as Superman. You have this whole vast audience of people who would be acutely aware of any deviation whatsoever and probably holding you to a slightly higher standard as a result.” PeopleIdeasRealStatesWholeWould BeGuyUnitedResultsUnited StatesAudienceClearHigherStandardsThis GuyDeviationHigher StandardsKent Author:Ben Affleck
“There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' - he is mentally committed to it. He's doing another movie now. What's most important to me about this guy, first, is that he's incredible with visuals. But he's also a spiritual guy, a Zen Buddhist. ... Galactus is a force of nature, not a being. That's all I'm saying.” ShouldFirstsImportantSpiritualGuyForceDirectorsIncrediblesCommittedBuddhistVisualsSilverThis GuyForces Of NatureSurferZen Buddhist Author:Avi Arad
“I make decisions to do movies based on the cast. I'd just been working with Zach Galifianakis on 'The Hangover', and I was thinking, I've got to find something to do with this guy immediately.” ThinkingGuyDecisionCastsThis GuyHangover Author:Todd Phillips
“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
“It's okay for someone to chase me and then try to cut me off so I ram my car into a tree . . . I mean, I know this guy was trying to do his job, but his "job" almost landed me half-dead.” KnowsTryingMeanJobsGuyHalfCuttingTreeCarOkayThis GuyRams Author:Lindsay Lohan
“For me George Bush is just as scary, if not more. Because he doesn't look like a scary guy, because he's shaved and he has a tie on. But he's a real fanatic - a fanatic by definition is the one who says, if you are not with me, you are against me, and that's exactly the position he takes. The mullahs in my country, it's obvious. But a guy who says I am the president of the biggest secular democracy in the world and asks people to read the Bible and make crusades and says he's God's best friend - this guy is even more scary because you don't see it at the beginning.” PeopleIfsWorldLooksRealCountryGuyAsksPresidentDemocracyPositionDefinitionsObviousScaryTiesSecularThis GuyFanaticsCrusadesMullahs Author:Marjane Satrapi
“As a comedian I don't think they look at me as a sexual person but I can see where with actors it would be a little difficult for them because its part of their mystique, it gives them an easier time to change characters and people aren't going oh we have a gay actor, their gay so I don't know if I'm gunna buy this guy with this girl, its weird, I don't think it's fair; it's only done with us, it seems, like they just accept everyone as straight and go along with it and then its oh their gay and make a big deal out of it.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsGivingLooksLittlesPersonsI CanDoneCharacterBigsSeemsWould BeGuyGirlActorsDifficultDealsAcceptingEasierGayFairsComedianLook At MeThis GuyBig DealThis GirlMystiqueEasier Times Author:Wanda Sykes
“I hate motorcycles. Because if I hit one, even if it's not my fault, if I've done nothing wrong, I'm not charged with manslaughter, he's gonna die, because he's on a motorcycle. So I have to live my life knowing that I killed this guy.” IfsDoneGuyHateDiesKnowingI HateFaultsLiving My LifeThis GuyMotorcycleManslaughter Author:Chuck Klosterman
“The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces about what they think of Neil Young, or why they quit watching ER or whatever. And because of that, I think there's a lot of people who write about my books with the premise of, "Why this guy? Why not me?"” PeopleThinkingWritingKindBookYoungGuyCultureOpinionPiecesQuittingWhy NotReviewsAspireThis GuyPremises Author:Chuck Klosterman
“Everybody wants me to be the (guy) who's (sleeping with) every celebrity woman in the industry. Everybody wants me to be this (guy) in the club, popping 17 bottles just because. Everybody wants me to be Diddy, and that's not me.” WantGuySleepIndustryClubsBottlesWant MeThis GuyPopping Author:Ne-Yo
“Someone sent an email to Reverend Joanna Watson [an American missionary] saying that I'm gay, and she sent it to all the anti-gay pastors in Uganda. One of them said, "We're going to take care of this guy." When I was confronted by them I didn't know what they were going to do, but they decided to pray over me. They said they were going to cure me. That didn't work, of course.” KnowsSaidCareGuyCoursesPrayingGayDecidedTake CareCuresMissionaryThey SaidPastorEmailThis GuyWatsonUgandaReverendsAnti Gay Author:Roger Ross Williams
“When you first hear about this guy (Stan Musial), you say, 'it can't be true.' When you first meet him you say, 'It must be an act.' But as you watch him and watch him and see how he performs and how he comports himself you say, 'He's truly one of a kind.' There will never be another like him.” FirstsKindGuyWatchesBeing TrueThis GuyOne Of A Kind Author:Jack Buck
“Same thing for the bad guy. People were really after this guy Radovan Karadicz. But I came up with a combination of several people, who then became The Fox. That's who Simon Hunt and Duck are after. I did that so I could have freedom with what The Fox said and did, so that I didn't have to be stuck. Certain things I wanted to stay to the truth. Certain things I changed, and certain things are the facts.” PeopleSaidFactsWantedGuyCertainChangedStuckCombinationDucksFoxesHuntsThis GuyBad Guys Author:Richard Shepard
“Officer, this guy is not waiting around for me... so you better shoot me or help me but decide now!” HelpingGuyWaitingHelp MeOfficersThis GuyWaiting Around Author:Jack Bauer
“Mark my words.It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.” IfsWorldYearsSaidStatesAmericaRememberGuyPresidentUnitedWatchesUnited StatesMonthsSixStandingTestsMarkCrisisInternationalBrilliantBarackSenatorsUnited States Of AmericaSix MonthsThis GuyMettleJohn Kennedy Author:Joe Biden
“I'm a huge fan of The Sopranos, and suddenly, you find yourself going one-to-one with this guy who you've been watching for years, watching every flicker in his eye and every detail on his face.” YearsEyeFacesGuyFansHugeDetailsHis EyesFinding YourselfThis GuyFlickerSopranos Author:Peter Capaldi
“I think in general, people look at all Olympic athletes, look at all superstar athletes, and they say, "Okay, this guy doesn't have any insecurities." They're almost like these icons who - I don't know how to say it, but like they can't make mistakes. But the reality is, and I'll tell you this firsthand, a lot of great athletes have a lot of insecurities, and they have a really hard time dealing with a lot of so-called losing or however you want to classify it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantLooksHardRealityGuyMistakeKnow HowLosingOkayAthleteHard TimesMaking MistakesInsecurityThis GuyIconsSuperstarGreat AthleteOlympic Athlete Author:Apolo Ohno
“Donald Trump said he will not decide about a possible run for the presidency until after the current season of Celebrity Apprentice wraps up. Say what you want about Trump, at least this guy has his priorities in order. He doesn't want to let actual reality get in the way of his reality show.” WayWantSaidShowsRealityRunningGuyOrderTrumpSeasonsCurrentsWhat You WantPrioritiesPresidencyThis GuyWrapsApprenticeReality Shows Author:Jay Leno
“Hi, this is Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger. I'm in New York at the moment, and we've been walking around the city, it's pretty strange. I was walking along with Darren and Cogsy yesterday and we saw this guy playing cards, a little two up type swindle, and he ripped this guy off for like one hundred bucks in like, ten seconds, and the guy started complaining so he just packed up his shop and left! And it was the smoothest swindle any of us had ever seen. So that was probably the highlight of our trip here so far.” LittlesTwoMomentsGuyLeftCitiesSawsNew YorkStrangeTypeWalkingTenHundredComplainingYesterdayCardsShopsSecondsThis GuyBucksRippedHighlightsDarrenPlaying Cards Author:Bernard Fanning
“I don't know if many people realize that Dolph Lundgren is a chemical engineer. He's not a dumb blond guy. This guy is smart and he's a martial artist.” PeopleIfsKnowsArtistGuyRealizingSmartDumbMartial ArtsChemicalsEngineersThis GuyMartial Artist Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“I'm smart enough to know when I've done something wrong, but I don't understand this. Guys are beating their wives, getting DUIs and doing drugs, and I get national attention for a Sharpie? People are personally attacking me, calling me a classless asshole because I did something creative during a game. Why?” PeopleKnowsDoneEnoughGuyGamesAttentionCreativeWifeCallingDrugSmartThis GuyAttackingDui Author:Terrell Owens
“I've made a few hits where I'll look up at the screen and be like, 'Oh my God.' Like it wasn't even me, like I just watched another guy kill this guy, and I don't even think that was me that made that hit.” ThinkingLooksMadeGuyScreensLook UpThis GuyOther Guys Author:Bob Sanders
“Yeah, I'd say there's probably about a couple of hundred people I admire - but that has nothing to do with what a person does themselves. That's why I never mention these things. You can read a detective novel you really like, but it had no bearing on what you do yourself, you just think, "God, how this guy wove this together!" Or you get into the energy of it. Or you see a poem which makes a great statement about sentiment, but it's not sentimental.” PeopleThinkingPersonsDoeTogetherGuyEnergyNovelCoupleHundredYeahStatementsAdmireSentimentsSentimentalThis GuyDetectives Author:Tom Verlaine
“I kind of didn't believe the doctors when they came over and they said you're not going to be able to walk again. I'm sorry to tell you this. I thought who is this guy? I just was so impatient with the whole thing. I knew I was going to walk again. I knew that I was going to do that.” BelieveKindSaidWholeAbleGuyWalksDoctorsSorryI'm SorryThey SaidThis GuyImpatient Author:Laurie Anderson
“That's very cool. Absolutely! You want to know where this guy came from, but you also want to know about the relationship between him and Quill, and how they ended up living together, for the last 18 or 19 years, without killing one another. He's a strong young man, and it's because of Yondu.” KnowsMenWantYearsTogetherLastsYoungGuyStrongKillingYoung ManThis GuyLiving TogetherVery CoolQuills Author:Michael Rooker
“I don't think I've seen that sort of character in a long time in this genre because again, there was a time when you could have quirky, strange characters that you grew to love, you didn't quite understand, you know, and then all of a sudden they became almost cardboard cutouts for awhile. You kind of know the guy, what his deal is - this guy's hard to figure out. He has some strange habits, but, you learn to love him and you discover more about him, where it comes from.” ThinkingKnowsKindLongHardCharacterGuyDealsLove YouFiguresStrangeGrewHabitLong TimeGenreNow And ThenThis GuyQuirky Author:Antoine Fuqua
“My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in Paris. He didn't consider himself an artist, but he was probably one of the artists of the 20th century. This guy documented all of Paris during those years. It's unbelievable. The books are phenomenal. The Museum of Modern Art has all his stuff now and [American photographer] Berenice Abbott saved his work. Not very much is known about his life, but the work is unreal and it totally spoke to me. He was the only artist for a number of years that I cared about at all.” YearsArtBookArtistGuyStuffNumbersKnownTeacherModernCenturyLatePhotographerSavedParisSpokesMuseums20th CenturyUnbelievableThis GuyUnrealPhenomenalModern Art Author:Jeff Vespa
“I ended up meeting this guy Stefan Simchowitz, who produced Requiem for a Dream and also went to AFI. I randomly met him in Cannes. By September of 2000, we had made a deal with this company that he was working with. They merged with us and in January of 2001, we opened WireImage. It was pretty crazy because I only started shooting celebrity stuff in 1998 - literally two and a half years later, I'm opening this company.” YearsMadeTwoDreamGuyStuffDealsHalfCompanyCrazyMetsMeetingsOpeningShootingSeptemberThis GuyJanuaryHalf A YearCannesRequiemRequiem For A Dream Author:Jeff Vespa
“The truth is at Legendary we really make movies that we want to see, and someday I'm sure that won't work but - I remember, it's obviously a completely different thing, but our first movie was Batman Begins, and there was a lot of things about Batman back then, and there was this guy named Christopher Nolan, that seemed to have worked out okay with him at the helm.” WantFirstsDifferentRememberGuyTruth IsOkayDifferent ThingsSomedayThis GuyLegendaryHelmNolan Author:Thomas Tull
“This guy [Tyson Fury] really wants to prove himself in the ring and confirm what he keeps telling everyone, that he's the best in the world.” WorldWantGuyProveRingsThis GuyFuryTyson Author:Wladimir Klitschko
“This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton.” PlayGuyBeatsThis GuyJackieBallparks Author:Leo Durocher
“It’s the opening of Manderlay in Cannes, and I’m sitting next to this guy who’s writing for a tiny fictitious French paper called ‘On the Sunny Side,’ and he’s writing a review on the film, and he’s obviously bored. Then he tells me about all the cars he owns, and how rich he is, and all these things... So, at a certain point, he says, "So what do you do?" Then I take out this very strange hammer we have in the Danish building business, and I say, "I kill." And then I kill him. It is as stupid as it sounds.” WritingFilmGuyCertainNextSoundSidesRichCarStupidBuildingStrangePaperSittingTinyOpeningBoredReviewsThis GuyHammersSunnyDanishCannesSunny Side Author:Lars von Trier
“Yesterday in Egypt, archaeologists discovered the burial site for the 50 children of Ramses II...Fifty children! What I want to know is, who decided to name a condom after this guy?” KnowsWantChildrenGuyNamesDecidedYesterdayFiftySiteEgyptThis GuyCondomBurialArchaeologists Author:Conan O'Brien
“This Guy (Messi) is the Best Player in the World, no doubt about that. I think we're always nervous about calling people who are currently playing, who are young at 23, to say he's the Best Player ever. But we shouldn't be. We should admit what we are seeing in front of our eyes. This is a special talent, who may be is the Best Player ever been seen.” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldMayEyeYoungGuyDoubtPlayerSeeingSpecialTalentFrontsCallingNervousNo DoubtThis GuyBest PlayersMessiSpecial Talents Author:Gary Neville
“I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I was directing second unit on Babel, I ended up casting most of the unknown parts. In these weird circles, I was this guy who found these kids on the streets.” WorldEyeKidsArtistGuyFoundStreetsCirclesCraftsPrizeUnitsThis GuyCastingBabelEye On The Prize Author:Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
“I was approached by this guy Chris Renshaw, who had read my book and had read Leigh's book. He wanted to incorporate both characters - he probably felt Leigh wasn't famous enough and he realized Leigh [Bowery] and I were associated.” BookEnoughCharacterWantedGuyFeltThis Guy Author:Boy George
“New York congressmen have recently been plagued by a string of embarrassing scandals. Shirtless craigslist hunk Chris Lee, nonconsensual staff tickle monster, Eric Massa, naked texter Anthony Weiner, so this guy is now running to join those dubious ranks and win the Michael Grimm seat. And he`s campaigning on the promise that he`s too old to be too gross. And I`m not paraphrasing the campaign pledge.” RunningGuyWinningNew YorkPromiseCampaignsMonstersNakedSeatsStringsStaffEmbarrassingThis GuyGrossScandalPledgeEricCongressmanDubiousCampaigningHunkGrimmCraigslistParaphrasing Author:Rachel Maddow
“This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.” GuySellingThis GuyPotatoesBrando Author:Humphrey Bogart
“It was seriously just a name. They didn’t tell you what to do. They didn’t tell you how they wanted the character to be - nothing. You went in to audition for this character name and that was it. When I started, before I came onto the set, I went to Gene Roddenberry and said: hey, what do you want from this guy? Who is he? And being as smart as he is, he said: don’t listen to what you’ve heard or read or seen in the past, nothing. Just make the character your own. And that’s what I did.” WantSaidCharacterWantedPastGuyNamesHeardSmartHeyGenesAuditionsThis Guy Author:Michael Dorn
“Johnny sort of popped into my head midway through the first draft, and he wouldn't leave. But the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. In the first half of the movie, this guy is in the house not doing anything. I really needed an actor who's inventive and who will make enough idiosyncratic choices to make it entertaining to watch. And let's face it, Johnny Depp could make a nap interesting to watch.” FirstsMadeEnoughFacesGuyChoicesActorsHouseInterestingHalfWatchesNeededEntertainingThis GuyNapsMidway Author:David Koepp
“And sometimes you're not noticing a little eye movement that's hilarious. So it all kind of gets figured out in post. And that guy you were watching was this guy Murray Miller, who's actually not an actor, he's a writer that Rodney and I are friends with. He's just crazily funny, especially when hitting on people.” PeopleKindLittlesSometimesEyeGuyActorsMovementAll KindsPostsHittingThis GuyThat GuyNoticing Author:Nicholas Stoller
“I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable. In some ways, we have similarities, but in other ways, we're completely different. It's hard to say because I'm an actor living in a world where we're all pretty privileged, and this guy is fighting for his life. They're very different circumstances. Within those circumstances, there are probably ways that we react to certain situations that are similar.” ThinkingWorldWayDifferentHardCharacterGuyCertainFightingActorsSituationPiecesCircumstancesInevitablePrivilegedThis GuySimilarity Author:Dustin Clare
“I think scandal probably attracted more American attention to Formula 1 than anything else in American news in decades. And that`s because it was a sex scandal, a particularly lurid sex scandal involving this guy Max Mosley.” ThinkingGuySexAttentionNewsDecadesFormulasThis GuyScandalMaxInvolvingFormula 1 Author:Rachel Maddow
“If you`re a Republican politician and you`re seeing this guy [Donald Trump] saying crazy stuff and going up in the polls, what are you going to say, you`re going to say equally crazy or maybe a little less crazy stuff.” IfsLittlesGuyStuffSeeingCrazyTrumpPoliticianRepublicanThis GuyPolls Author:Bernie Sanders