Going into live action, the perception I had was that to be a director, you had to be loud, you had be physically fit, wear cool hats, have a beard, and yell, ‘Action!’ really loud. And I’m none of those things.
I’ve been in grocery stores, and if they’re playing my music, I’ll yell, ‘Hey! I wrote that!’ I’ve been next to cars and have done that!
One of the things that I’m very proud to stand up and yell about is that we need to end gatekeeping in our society. We need to stop people from saying, ‘You need to pass the test if you’re going to come in here and do this.’
I don’t like to yell and scream. I actually hate it.
I don’t believe in getting mad if a guy misses a block and I get hit. I don’t yell at the players. Everybody gets beat sometime.
My dad, toward the end of his life, said our health care system expects you to check your brains at the door. He was right. Yell at your politicians. Lose control.
I take Wellbutrin because I’m afraid to go into stores. I’m afraid people are going to yell at me.
Basketball is a non-aggressive game. So when emotions are high, there’s a very low chance to get angry or yell. So that’s why it never happens out there.
I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that’s not what’s driving me, so if it’s something I don’t want to do, I don’t do it. Maybe it’s stubborn, but any choices, if you don’t like them, yell at me, because it for sure was my bad.
In school, we learn that we don’t yell out, we wait. You raise your hand and wait for your chance.
Every time I’d sing or play piano when I was a child, my dad would yell up from the basement, ‘That’s B-flat!’
Playing on Saturdays, seeing 75,000 people yell your name, 88, ASJ, and all of that stuff is great.
I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that’s what I try to do.
I yell at myself all the time.
Grown-ups yell. I don’t know why, but they do.
When I look at Lake Michigan each July, I imagine the men of the Indianapolis visible on the horizon; dark heads, struggling arms, a cry and whirl of a world being remade. I feel an overwhelming sense of sadness, accompanied by a desire to yell out that they will be rescued.
In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I’m bossy or mean, but because I’m frustrated.
I do a bit called, ‘You go, girl!’ where I say, ‘Don’t tell me ‘You go, girl!’ I get it. I don’t need you encourage me.’ And nine times out of 10 after I finish the bit, some guy in the back will yell ‘You go, girl!’ I get a lot of that or ‘I hear ya!’ I don’t generally – knock on fake wood – get mean heckling.
When people have hearing loss, I think they often take that burden and pass it on to their friends and family, and we make them scream and yell at us so we can hear! But I think it’s better to take responsibility and wear hearing aids!
We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, ‘Hey, stupid, that’s not right,’ and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.
I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don’t vote for men who yell.
If you yell at your box, I’m not really sure it’s something where it should be a penalty. It seems like you hurt yourself.
I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don’t really know anymore.
How many people yell at linespeople? I see it happening all the time. I don’t know how many times I have seen that happen.
I don’t play computer games. What I do is yell at my secretary and say, ‘Go on the Internet, and find this or that.’
In Europe they are all kind of hard. They yell a lot, but they are trying to be honest and try to teach you how to get a work ethic and how to play the right way.
I get recognized for ‘The Killing’ all the time. People yell out, ‘I hope you didn’t kill her!’ They yell that out in the street.
I don’t lead with an iron fist. I don’t yell at people. I have a way of making my opinion clear.
What happens with ‘Mad Men,’ it’s like an Elvis Costello album; I’ll watch it, and then I immediately have to watch it again. AMC will play it back-to-back. I have a tendency to yell at it when my wife’s not around because if she catches me yelling at ‘Mad Men,’ then it gets weird.
Sometimes I want to yell on this track; I want to yell the whole song, and I don’t think nothing’s wrong with that, but the older generation feel like you can’t.
When I yell at my TV, it’s usually watching… usually it happens during the election. There’s when I’m watching CNN and MSNBC.
When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody’s face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.
I’m not one of those guys that’s going to beat you over the head and just yell at you all day.
It’s great being a producer! Why am I wasting my career writing and directing? Those are actual jobs in which you work. Being a producer, it’s kind of like you just go to the set, yell at a couple of people, and then stay up all night dancing in nightclubs.
You go to New York, and people say New Yorkers are so rude, and I think they’re so nice. They might yell at you, but it’s nice.
Working in bars back then, in the ’50s, to get a job you had to play all kinds of music. There’d be customers come in and yell jazz tunes at you and yell rock ‘n’ roll tunes at you and polkas and rhythm and blues and country music.
The best way to get somebody’s attention is with a little quiet, and then yell at ’em.
When we go somewhere, my dad will start shouting my name very loudly. He’ll yell, ‘Oh, my God, it’s Sara Sampaio!’ My brother does the same.
Some guys play so straight, and that may be their thing; like, a lot of guys are good playing like that. I can’t play like that. I have to flair out. I have to yell. I gotta scream. I gotta talk trash – that’s how I get myself going.
If you’re going to scream and yell and pull a groin when calling a catch, you have to really make sure what you’re seeing is actually what’s happening.
I’m a screamer and a yeller. When I want something, all I do is yell, and I get responses.
Growing up, everybody told me I was good. I was playing ping-pong with my father, and he’d say, ‘That’s a good shot,’ but I’d mess up the next one, and I’d yell, ‘Don’t tell me that! I’ll mess up! Just don’t say anything!’ You know, if someone says, ‘You can’t do that,’ then I’m going to be, ‘Yeah, you watch me.’
It’s wild to be visiting New York and crossing the street and having someone yell out at me, ‘Hey, Rusty!’ Or to be recognized when I go out as ‘the kid on ‘Major Crimes.”
It’s easier when you play. You get your emotion out. You scream. You yell. You do whatever you want. You play. But it’s tough to sit.
What does happen in ‘Gourmet,’ we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were, like, ten or twelve test cooks. And whenever anybody finished something, they would yell, ‘Taste!’ and everyone would go running towards it, and then taste, and then brutally deconstruct the dish.
If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.
The key to coaching is love. It’s not knowledge; it’s not discipline. If you love ’em, you can discipline them. If you love ’em, you can yell at them and laugh about it later.
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