For me, growing up felt like a roller coaster ride at times, but looking back, I don’t think that it was such a bad thing. It was all part of the excitement of being young.
I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn’t like children on bicycles or roller skates… or with big dogs.
I got a pair of roller skates for Christmas when I was 4 or 5 or something, so I had a pair as kid. But I also lived on a gravel road so I wasn’t really skating up and down the street.
Inner-thigh strength is important, and not just for appearance sake. If you enjoy – or have always wanted to try – ice skating or roller blading, strong inner thighs will come in handy.
There’s a roller coaster effect when you’re playing good. Everything seems to go your way. But once you start playing bad, you’re playing bad.
You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared. You go through the emotional roller coaster at what it’s like to compete at the Olympic level and you let that run through your whole body.
Anytime we lose a game, there it goes. The roller coaster’s going down.
I have had an extraordinary life, but it’s been one incredible roller coaster ride.
Really, I don’t like roller coasters.
But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.
One of my favorite lyrics is ‘Clams on the half-shell and roller skate, roller skate.’ So they can be just really party-inspiring lyrics or just something brilliant like ‘Tutti Frutti.’
Theater is the most challenging thing to do. It’s just you out there with no rope. You can’t call time out; you’re on a roller coaster.
My mother and stepfather were in Vaudeville. And my stepfather was an alcoholic. It was a lot of roller coaster times. But it’s all I knew. I think they did the best they could under the circumstances, with me and all the family.
I started skating at age 2 on roller skates on the South Side of Chicago, where I grew up. By age 4, roller-skating was something I really enjoyed. Everyone around me wanted to do the ‘roll bounce’ thing, but I was pretty much only interested in going fast.
There’s something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They’re inherently cinematic; the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response.
I was addicted to ‘The Monkees’ TV programme – not so much because of the music but because of the commercials in between. The programme was sponsored by Yardley, and in the commercial breaks, there would be these English girls on roller skates, wearing hot pants, and I just thought, ‘God! How neat!’
When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, ‘If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!’ And then the roller rink, and you work your way up branch by branch.
Politics has been a roller coaster, but I’ll never look back and say, ‘Why did I do it?’ In fact, if my son decided to join politics tomorrow, he has my full and unconditional support.
Struggle teaches you a lot of things, and I am happy that I witnessed a roller coaster ride. The journey has improved me as a person and made me more mature.
My journey with Rajesh Khanna was good, thrilling… a roller coaster ride. I feel honoured to have two children with him.
It’s been quite a roller coaster ride, but I’ve grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people’s lives… for that I give thanks.
Although I’m a retired teenager, I remember what it was like to be one. I could have sworn I was riding an emotional roller coaster most of the time. Looking back, I’m actually amazed that I survived. Barely.
If my life were a song it would probably be titled ‘Roller Coaster’, up and down all the time.
Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it’s a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby.
There is nothing like the indignity of not fitting into a roller coaster.
Actually, I can take a roller coaster or leave it.
Infertility is this huge emotional roller coaster. If you want in your heart more than anything to have a baby, it’s the hardest thing you will ever go through physically, emotionally, and financially.
I think it’s hilarious at 40 years old to bring out my roller skates from ‘Starlight Express.’ I find the humor and even the sadness in it hilarious and something to celebrate.
Once you learn how to roller skate for ‘Starlight Express,’ it’s a lifelong skill you have acquired.
Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.
Every year is a roller coaster. I’ve enjoyed the struggle of having new coaches and having to prove myself over again. Being able to figure out ways to solve problems, to overcome obstacles – that’s been fun.
There’s nothing so interesting as a steam roller that’s about to be derailed.
In ‘Clockwork Orange,’ you’re there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it’s just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.
Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.
I don’t want to use my platform to speak out against anybody. I’m a rock and roller. I play music for a living.
I’ve said this before, and I’ll say this again: NXT is like a rock concert, roller coaster ride.
You want the match to be like a roller coaster, so you can’t predict it.
The Tom Green I got to witness and see inside the ‘Big Brother’ house, I would say he was probably the most difficult to live with because he is literally a roller coaster. You don’t really know which Tom you are going to get on an hour-to-hour basis. And that was kind of difficult.
The first years of my life were spent in a roller disco in the early ’80s called Flipper’s. It was a real riotous, incredible time. I am slightly obsessed with the place.
We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together – the high highs and the low lows.
I used to tour the theatres and clubs with an 18-foot luxury caravan strapped to the back of my Roller – it was a damn site more comfortable than most hotels.
My career has been a roller coaster ride. And every actor experiences that phase.
You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you’re hurting so badly that you write ‘Sometimes When We Touch.’ But then what happens when you’ve been married for 25 years? You can’t rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
I roller skated when I was younger, but when you’re on a track that’s slanted and you’re with other people all skating in a pack, it’s a whole different sport.
Life has to be a roller coaster ride. Otherwise, what’s the point of living? Why should I make a song and dance about mine?
I do have the roller skates from ‘Boogie Nights.’
Something happens when you become an elder rock & roller and you’re still functioning. People start to give you awards and recognize achievements. It’s the life achievement period of your career.
I still recreationally skate at the roller rink with all the children.
My two best friends, they love amusement parks. They are such roller-coaster daredevils, and they drag me on every single roller coaster they can find. Some of my favorite experiences have been when they’ve taken me to Disneyland or Six Flags or Universal.
I’ve got a sister who races motorcycles and another sister who’s a Holy Roller preacher.
When I was younger, my mom worked at a roller rink, so I’d go all the time. I learned to skate pretty well. I won the limbo all the time.
Life’s a roller coaster, but I feel a change.
It’s not like Alaska isn’t wilderness – it mostly is. But most Alaskans don’t live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It’s just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.
I hate the feeling of falling – I’ll never jump from a plane – but I love a good roller coaster. Go figure!
I don’t have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It’s hard because people try to have an effect.
I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.
If you don’t have a massage therapist on hand, then a foam roller can do the work instead.
That’s kind of how I am – a roller coaster of emotions.
We moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., with no idea how to speak the language. The second day in America, my brother got robbed for his roller blades. That was a very traumatic experience.
I think I understand why most actors and actresses are insane, because having to go through an emotional roller coaster as your job every day of your life would make somebody absolutely loopy.
I used to roller skate a lot in my youth on Taft Avenue, Manila. That is the reason there is always a skating area in all my SM malls. I want more people to share my love for skating.
