“I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.” PlayUsedHouseStuffSonMusicianMy FamilyGuitarUsed To BeMy SonAnnoyingElectricFrustratedGarageAcousticsPlaying GuitarMetallicaElectric Guitar Author:Kevin McKidd
“My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.” MayPlayWholeUsedNightStuffFiveMinutesSixMeetingsPianoWeekendSchedulesDowntimeWeekdays Author:Aaron Levie
“Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.” StatesShowsUsedActorsStuffUnitedUnited StatesLaughingCoachesNelson Author:Barry Levinson
“When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.” UsedStuffGoalWonderScoring Goals Author:Wayne Rooney
“I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.” FeelsLooksLongMadeDreamWantedBeautifulUsedGirlFunWishStuffHairNormalOppositesAbsolutesAmerican DreamSkinnyLightersBeautiful Girl Author:Gabourey Sidibe
“It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care.” WayWantImportantCareUsedStuffRecordsMusic IsImportant ThingsDon't CareI Don't CareReally GreatGood Records Author:Aimee Mann
“When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.” PeopleIfsUsedStuffSituationEmotionalHumourSeriousJokesToolsCracksDeep Emotional Author:Matthew Perry
“I never really thought of myself as a physical comedian. But when I was a kid, I used to, you know, pretend to trip over things to make girls laugh in school and stuff like that. So I kind of learned how to fall without hurting yourself.” KnowsKindKidsSchoolUsedFallGirlStuffHurtLaughingComedianHurting Yourself Author:Matthew Perry
“People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.” PeopleThinkingUsedStuffComic Author:Alexei Sayle
“Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.” LittlesPlayWould BeWantedRememberFilmUsedStuffTvsPerformancesCousinMy Cousin Author:Ja Rule
“Even if I had $200 million, I’m very wary of overusing CGI. I think it’s a great tool and it can be used really effectively, but I feel like it does tend to be overused and especially in sci-fi stuff.” IfsThinkingFeelsDoeUsedStuffMillionsToolsSci FiCgiOverused Author:Rian Johnson
“There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.” UsedStuffCrazyDrugSpain Author:Patricia Velasquez
“I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.” UsedHouseStuffMy OwnRecordsHolyBuiltTrackStudiosIdenticalZeppelinsAbbeyAbbey Road Author:Lukas Haas
“Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.” UsedMotherStuffGrewDistanceFolksMotherhoodEmsMeant To BeWere Meant To Be Book:A White Heron and Other Stories Source: A White Heron and Other Stories
“I don't Twitter. I can't even remember my password name. I have problems with electronics, so what I've done is hire a young man out of college, whose very fingers are the extension of computer keys, and he Twitters. He does the mechanics, but I very carefully modulate what is said and have used Twitter to publicize stuff, have conversations and instigate competition.” MenDoeSaidI CanDoneProblemRememberYoungUsedNamesStuffCollegeKeysConversationComputerCompetitionFingersYoung ManExtensionsMechanicElectronicsPasswords Author:William Shatner
“I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that.” TogetherUsedStuffMaterialsVariousWoodsClay Author:Joe Fafard
“When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.” PeopleKidsSchoolUsedStuffCrazyCatholicDragPro LifeCrazy PeopleCatholic School Author:Tim Heidecker
“Hemingway always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years nobody would understand. He may have been right; it's getting to be true.” YearsMayHas BeensUsedStuffMistakeIncludingBeing TrueFiftyGreat Mistakes Author:John Dos Passos
“My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.” LittlesShowsUsedMotherSongFatherHouseStuffRocksDadMusicianInstrumentsMy DadSingersLatinRock And RollBrooklyn Author:Bruno Mars
“My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.” UsedFatherStuffCreativityWindowFruitStoresFlash Author:Frank Gehry
“I like doing this stuff [stunts] though, it's kind of the whole reason that you want to do the movie. When you're reading it you're like, "Oh, I get to dive out a window? Cool! I get to jump off a building? Great!" So I love doing that stuff, it's like the stuff we used to do in high school to be stupid and fun.” WantKindReasonWholeSchoolUsedReadingFunStuffStupidBuildingHigh SchoolWindow Author:Channing Tatum
“I decided to be a filmmaker between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse. Before I left for the summer of 1977, my advisor told me I really had to declare a major when I came back, because I'd used all my electives in my first two years. I went back to New York and I couldn't find a job. There were none to be had. And that previous Christmas someone gave me a Super-8 camera, so I just started to shoot stuff.” YearsFirstsTwoJobsUsedLeftStuffNew YorkSummerMajorsDecidedCamerasFilmmakerTwo YearsJuniorsAdvisorsSophomoreJunior Year Author:Spike Lee
“You know I've had people come up and ask me to sign their guns. Sign my name on gun handles and holsters and stuff. I've done it once or twice for law enforcement officials, but when people do that -- and there have been quite a few of them lately -- I always tell them no. I don't want to do that. I don't want my name on that and I hope you use this gun, whatever its purpose is, I hope it's used wisely.” PeopleKnowsWantHas BeensDoneUseLawUsedPurposeAsksNamesStuffGunCome UpHandleAsk MeOfficialsLaw EnforcementEnforcement Author:Clint Eastwood
“I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny; I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom; I know what she put into it.” ThinkingKnowsMenMadeUsedStuffMomGoes OnDadProvidersGood DadGood Mom Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Before computers were everywhere I used record books, the old-fashioned way. I loved to cram, and I still love to cram, anything I write with extra facts, stuff I picked up. At the same time, especially in this day and age, you've got to make it sound like, or read like, you've not just been Googling because that's not fair, that's not right!” WayWritingStillsBookFactsAgeUsedStuffSoundRecordsLike YouComputerFairsExtrasThis DayOld FashionedNot Fair Author:Steve Bunce
“When I was your age, I used to treat the crust like it was just there to hold the good stuff in. I used to leave the whole back end of it on the plate. As I got older, I learned to appreciate the crust.” EndsWholeAgeUsedStuffAppreciateTreatsPlates Author:Mandy Patinkin
“Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you've held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to.” MayLongSometimesUsedStuffLike YouOutdated Author:Big Sean
“The action stuff takes a long time but when you're there and you're doing it and you go into that take and you run and everything is blowing up around you and you're diving onto something it's actually incredibly thrilling and you feel like a kid again. Like a kid, who used to play and pretend all those things would happen and now they're actually happening.” FeelsLongPlayHappensRunningKidsActionUsedStuffLong TimeHappeningsThrillingDivingBlowing Up Author:Stanley Tucci
“I was used to being disliked as a kid. Not that I didn't deserve it: I was a pretty sad and unappealing creature, and still am, I guess. It's sort of simplistic to think that one tries to make stuff that accounts for one's repulsiveness as a person, but there's some truth to it. So, when I read something unfavorable, I always take it deeply personally. It's as if my efforts have been in vain, and I should just quit.” IfsThinkingShouldTryingPersonsHas BeensStillsKidsUsedStuffEffortCreaturesDeserveAccountsQuittingVain Author:Chris Ware
“Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.” KnowsHomeBodyUsedStuffSawsDadMurderPatientMy DadUsed To BeShockedAlzheimerAlzheimer's Author:Ellie Goulding
“I find that things don't bother me as much. If I had a bad day on set, it sort of just rolls of my back in a way that it didn't before. So that's where the biggest difference is, stuff that used to get under my skin or that I would worry about or be anxious about just isn't a problem. So in some ways, having a child has been very liberating. I found it very liberating.” IfsWayChildrenHas BeensProblemUsedFoundStuffDifferencesWorrySkinsBotherAnxiousLiberatingBad DayHad A Bad Day Author:Laura Linney
“It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or the 'good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.” ChildrenHomeEarthUsedLyingMotherGirlStuffHorribleUsed To BePieBakingGood GirlGood MotherBad GirlBad Mother Author:Annette Bening
“It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.” BookIdeasHardKidsWantedUsedHateReadingStuffChallengesForeverDecidedTake MeSophisticatedCaptainsIrresistibleUnderpants Author:Dav Pilkey
“I used to beat up kids and bite kids and do stuff all the time.” KidsUsedStuffBeatsBites Author:Russell Wilson
“I like vintage stuff. I go through a vintage store and find things that I feel like I fit right into them because of all the years that they've been used.” FeelsYearsUsedStuffFitStoresVintageVintage Stuff Author:Channing Tatum
“The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace - never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.” PeopleWorldLittlesLongArtHomeUsedStuffTakenModernJokesArt IsWeakDisgracePretentiousArt WorldModern Art Author:Banksy
“I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!” YearsFirstsKindLongI CanTwoKidsUsedStuffCitiesCrazyCollegeAll KindsBeachPianoPrizeTwo YearsContestsAnnualsCrazy ThingsLong Beach Author:Eddie Van Halen
“I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best known books, the Mortal Engines series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.” BookUsedStuffKnownSeriesDespiteUsed To BeMortalsEnginesFascinatedVictorianRetro Author:Philip Reeve
“When I first started making music, it was learning other peoples songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.” WritingFirstsIdeasUsedSongStuffSidesFourSingingTrackProductionsMelodyVehicleLyrical Author:M. Ward