I doubt I’ll ever do another book collaboration; I’ve been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together.
There was no way we’d ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic.
Actors are not a great breed of people, I don’t think. I count myself as something of an exception. I grew up in the theater, and my values were about the work, and not being a star or anything like that. I’m not spoiled in that way, and if I fight for something, it’s about the work, not about how big my trailer is.
I am spoiled, it’s true. I don’t even know how to use that thing in the kitchen with the burners.
To do a television show, one can be sort of spoiled. You get to have your own trailer, your own space – that sort of thing.
I always took myself really seriously in my 20s and needed everyone to know that I wasn’t a spoiled blond actress.
Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don’t make eye contact, the guys won’t come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.
‘Maneater’ is about N.Y.C. in the ’80s. It’s about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.
My dad was a laborer. And he used to get up at 5:30 every morning. He worked for 50 years of his life, in all weathers for, by showbiz standards, petty cash. I remind myself of that when I feel a little bit spoiled or hard done by.
I don’t have the desires of a spoiled child. I never did.
Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.
We’ve all seen those spoiled little brats that end up being given everything and on their 17th birthday get a Ferrari. That whole thing I just can’t bear it.
You get spoiled on ‘Captain America,’ where your trailer’s two blocks long and it’s got three bedrooms.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
When he was a little kid, he was a fat, spoiled kid. I can tell the type.
We’re really spoiled on ‘Mad Men.’ Lots of television actors use the down season to go out and get creatively fulfilled, but I feel the opposite. Anything else I get to do is just icing.
At this point, I’m spoiled. I’ve actually had a really blessed career.
Football’s become a non-contact sport, and that’s spoiled a lot of the fun for a lot of the people, including spectators.
I had become a bit spoiled or complacent at Sporting and I needed a kick up the backside, which is what Everton gave me. It was quite tough going to an unfamiliar place where I didn’t know anyone at first.
I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don’t have to think about anything but skating. You’re just plain spoiled.
I am an only child, and I guess was spoiled by my parents.
I knew what my father, more than anything else, wanted me to do. Seventeen, vain, and spoiled by poems, I prepared to enter a remote West Point. I would succeed there, it was hoped, as he had.
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.
It don’t take a lot to make me happy. I’m not spoiled like that.
Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet.
Early in my career, I was really spoiled with a beautiful project. I got such a good start that I thought, ‘Why would I ever take a step back?’ Why would I take on something that wasn’t meaningful – to me, if nobody else – and powerful and groundbreaking?
In this day and age of texts, Twitter, and Facebook, we are very rarely surprised by anything anymore – something always leaks out and gets spoiled.
My parents came from very humble families. My grandfather had a construction business coming from farmland, and my grandmother could never read or write. We were very spoiled. We had a nice house – and then, all of a sudden, we had nothing.
I always wanted to have that brother-sister rivalry type of stuff. So now I’m happy that at least Dream and King won’t be the only child being super spoiled.
I hate committing myself to anything. It’s probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I’m probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.
There’s a lot of spoiled Lakers fans.
I still miss my gramma. I can see her at the farm, in her apron, babushka and support stockings. My Slovak gramma spoiled us with pig in the blankets, kalachi, pop, chips and a drawer full of lollipops. It was heaven.
I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.
People think I left The Band and spoiled this whole thing, and that’s not what happened. Nobody broke up The Band. Nobody ever said, ‘That’s it, we’re done.’
My mother was a very natural woman. She never spoiled herself, never wore make-up, and wore modest jewellery, but she always had a few special items for when she wanted to feel like a lady. One of those special items – and I remember it because it seemed so elegant – was her Guerlain powder.
I know how lucky I am, and I am aware that I have to fight the perception that I am also a spoiled brat.
Back in the ’90s, we saw prominent non-film artists like the Bombay Vikings do a splendid job on old classics and people danced to those new tunes without ever feeling that the song had been spoiled. We slowly saw this trend creeping into mainstream cinema.
My experience with ‘Transparent’ has completely spoiled me because it was the safest, most transpositive set ever. I didn’t have to worry about all the usual things – like when people have a vision of your transness that you’re not comfortable with. When they don’t know the correct gender pronouns by which to refer to you.
I’m pretty spoiled. I work a lot. I go from project to project.
I’m so thrilled to get to raise my kids in the environment that they are in. I think it’s easy just to imagine that all these kids are spoiled and entitled. Part of what makes me be strong with my kids is the fact that I’m surrounded by other really firm strong moms.
I’m from Santa Monica, which was an awesome place to grow up. You’re very spoiled being from California. When it’s below 70, you complain. When it rains, you talk about it.
I got spoiled on ‘Breaking Bad.’ Playing the same guy for four or five seasons, you get to really explore who the character is.
You can’t get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
I’m not big into spoilers. Just personally, I don’t want anything spoiled.
I did a terrible job of composing myself. I was a spoiled brat from Long Island who benefitted from the energy of New York.
I’m not one of those spoiled rock stars who complains about how tedious it is to perform my old hits.
It’s very hot and humid in Houston. Being in L.A. for 10 years, that kind of spoiled me a little bit, so every time I got back home, I’m like, ‘Damn it’s hot out here.’ But I love it.
In Beverly Hills, it’s very spoiled in terms of the quality of life. I think the climate and the space and the quality of life in Beverly Hills is exceptional.
Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.
My eldest daughter’s been to a few sets of mine and gets spoiled when she’s doing her nails, her hair. Though more often than not, you bring them to set, and they realize the filming process is pretty boring.
People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, ‘Hardly.’ You can know every single ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and then when you sit down and eat that cake, you can still feel that joy.
I don’t know, maybe I’m overly paranoid that they’re going to be spoiled, but I want to keep them going as kids for as long as I can. I want to keep them innocent and free.
I’ve grown up around some incredibly funny people, which has been a blessing and curse because now I’ve been completely spoiled in terms of what I find funny.
I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.
I realize I am very privileged. But there’s a difference between being spoiled and privileged.
There’s a misconception that maybe I’m overly confident or a little vapid or that I am a stereotypical, bratty, spoiled girl who doesn’t have much to bring to the table other than how people perceive her physically.
I try for my children to have the most normal life. Obviously, they’re spoiled. I’m not saying they’re not, because we’re all very spoiled. But within that, I’d like them to be as down-to-earth as possible.
Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days. When I first started in this profession – about a hundred years ago in the last century – it was all about taking risks, it was about doing the job and honing the craft.
