When I read that Khal Drogo role, I was blown away. I couldn’t believe it was happening. I had to have that role.
It blows me away that my parents, they really weren’t much into theater, but they recognized that in me. When I think about the things they did to support that, I’m blown away.
I was confident about the potential of ‘Baaghi 2’ when I greenlit it, but the final product has blown me away.
I think Ronda Rousey is fantastic. She’s a fantastic addition to the entire crew of WWE. I think she has kind of blown away people’s expectations.
I know actors with promising careers who get blown out of the business, never to return.
I have no choice but to be 100-percent-focused. My two hours get blown up nearly every single day by breaking news.
I remember I rapped for a friend, and my friend really encouraged me and was blown away, like ‘Whoa, that was dope!’ Ever since then, I kept going.
I used to go to those dance circles when I was a kid. When break dancing was first popular in the ’80s. I would be in Boston, or I’d head up to New York, and I would stand in those circles, and I would just be blown away.
I was first influenced by a friend in fifth grade when he brought a Walkman to school and was listening to ‘Paradise City’ by Guns ‘N Roses, which he had concealed within his hoodie. He put the headphones over my ears and I was completely blown away by what I heard. I’ll never forget that.
If I can sell out clubs and theaters and play dirtbags in movies, and get blown up in a car or get the crap beat out of me in a movie, that’s good for me; I’m good.
We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds.
I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw… bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.
I’ve blown myself up as a revolutionary and conscious artist. As a philanthropist and a performer.
I knew there were all kinds of interesting things going on at Google, but now that I’ve seen them, my mind has been blown – in a great way. They have all these amazing projects and people that the world doesn’t know anything about. I’m like a kid in a candy store – it’s an idea factory.
Growing up, I was always blown away by ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Barbarella’ and ‘Logan’s Run.’ The retro sci-fi thing.
I think with ‘Hamilton,’ Lin-Manuel has really blown up the whole casting idea. It’s miraculous. You look at ‘1776,’ it’s a bunch of old white guys and old white chicks. You look at ‘Hamilton,’ and it’s just the faces of America.
It is actually crazy because with our wrestling career, our coaches were always blown away by our timing, and they always remarked how our chemistry and timing is always perfect. Just being twins, we have that. We don’t have to talk; we don’t have to communicate. It just happens.
What I have appreciated about the ‘Call of Duty’ games is the scale of production. It’s not an indie game. It’s not trying to be an indie game. But I’ve genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this.
I saw a DJ from Germany called Sven Vath. I saw him in the club, he played for six hours and I was just totally intrigued, because everything he played I’d never heard before and everything he did I’d never seen before. I was so blown away by what he did.
I’ve done a lot of movies, but none of them that have blown up the way that ‘Divergent’ did.
The first time I re-discovered the joy of watching an action movie was when I saw ‘Die Hard.’ It was a completely simple plot – a guy goes to meet his wife, and the building gets taken over by terrorists – but I was completely blown away. Great characters, and it moved along really fast.
I loved filming in Morocco; it was amazing. I’d never been anywhere like that. The culture was phenomenal. I was so blown away by the spirit of that country.
I made 22 million in 14 years… with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window… which is why I still need to work.
Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers, cook my breakfast and then settle down in front of the word processor, usually by 8 A.M. I’ll write, and then check e-mail or voicemail when things stall.
I remember, when I saw the first ‘Austin Powers’ movie, I was blown away by how fun and original it was.
I was vaguely aware that people used to hijack planes to Cuba. But I didn’t know much about how often it happened and what the motives were. I started looking into what was going on back then, and I was blown away by how common hijacking once was.
We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
It’s really important to me to still spend time in the ends – I’m there all the time. I do my videos there, I still talk about it. It’s important for me to be an inspiration to the youth of the area and not just leave now I’ve blown up.
There was a period where I was a little scared that I’d blown my chance.
I was blown away by Steve Perry’s voice – you know, his amazing ability to change from a lambing voice to rock.
Believe me, I’ve totally blown any kind of so-called reputation I may have had. I really don’t care. I think that’s one of the joys of getting older; you just stop caring about things like that.
As luck would have it, my voice is best when it’s kind of blown out.
If you make a wrong move with explosives, it could be deadly. If you’re there when they blow up the beach, you get blown up, too. So you need to get your job done correctly… then pull the fuse with enough lag time for you to clear the area completely and get picked up by the small boats.
I feel like everything with me gets blown out of proportion. I think it’s because I’m so quiet about things that people just run with anything they hear.
Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.
Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we’ve lost the ability to be blown away by music.
I remember when I saw ‘The Matrix’ when I was 13, I saw it in the theaters, and I was so blown away by it. It was one of the most memorable experiences I definitely ever had in the theater.
It wasn’t until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.
I was blown away by the standing ovation. I’ve had tributes before, sure, but I don’t retain that feeling, and I wasn’t prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn’t retain these things or you’d be on a permanent high.
I think the Covid-19 crisis has been blown out of proportion and has created an unnecessary fear psychosis.
Zumba is world-wide, respected and it’s about health. It’s something that you really didn’t expect from me. People have been blown away to find out that Zumba and I have partnered up.
I was blown away all the time by just how amazing people are in Canada, because even if they hated me, they still would try to help me.
I look around at my peers, and I’m so blown away by their talent and their beauty and their cool style, as well as their ability to be an actress and be a movie star and be good at it. I mean, they’re so good, and we’re all trying to get the same parts.
There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it’s much easier to say, ‘No comment.’
I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs.
Comedy chose me. I always had this urge to be silly that I couldn’t control. I remember my father having me read ‘The Three Little Pigs’ to him, and I would improv all around the story, like when one pig’s house got blown over, he put on his gym shoes and took off.
I was blown away by the amazing atmosphere at Moshions’s studio. The amount of work, love and dedication that went into the bespoke clothes felt so personal. It was stunning.
The stories I most love are about the benefits of being blown off course.
When Lars said, ‘We want you to be in Metallica,’ I was blown away.
Kepler’s blown the lid off everything we know about extra-solar planets.
Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought ‘wow’; she was writing from a black girl’s perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word.
I don’t accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn’t be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.
I’ve never blown my own trumpet over my ability but it took an awful lot to stop me getting on the pitch.
I remember when I saw ‘King’s Speech’ or ‘Girl With the Pearl Earring;’ there are moments in my life where I was blown away and thought, ‘Wow, that’s why I chose to be a film composer.’ These films are so beautiful and so strong, and the music can be very much part of the emotion.
