I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.
The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.
But there’s nothing that gives me more thrill than when I’m writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it’s just perfect. There’s nothing that exciting.
I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of – just being there.
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.
Coming off ‘Sopranos’ and ‘Mad Men,’ I was starting to feel like I was being spoiled creatively. I wanted to move forward as a director in TV and get more involved in the process. After having those two great experiences, doing regular episodic TV wouldn’t be quite the thrill.
Turns out Picasso’s passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.
The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
I just love drawing on past human cultures; that’s a thrill for me.
I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it’s a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.
I usually know when something is going to end up being catastrophic but I don’t really care. I find that the things that end up being earth shattering are the things that give me the most thrill.
I feel it’s easier to scare or thrill people than to make them laugh.
It’s so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.
We wanted to celebrate the ‘Dangerous Deception’ release by letting everyone experience the thrill of sharing a book with a reader who wouldn’t otherwise have one.
We like movies that are going to have a great sense of fun and thrill to them while at the same time remain very grounded in relatable human emotions and conflicts that the audiences can get behind and root for and empathise with.
It’s such a thrill walking onto a film set.
I can never forget the thrill of buying my first Fiat.
Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can lose its urge to play; the prize no longer seems quite worth the hunt.
Don’t get me wrong: there are aspects of buying music online that I love. Instantly being able to hear a song the moment it crosses your mind? Where’s the downside? However, I do feel for those too young to remember the thrill of going record shopping.
Shopping with friends is a great way of still enjoying the thrill of the chase without having to make a purchase. It can also be a real bonding opportunity. Helping your friend find something nice is just as rewarding as helping yourself.
I love to win; but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.
It doesn’t thrill me to bits that the state has to use the tools of electronic surveillance to keep us safe, but it seems clear to me that it does, and that our right to privacy needs to be qualified, just as our other rights are qualified, in the interest of general security and the common good.
Music really helps – singing is huge because it releases all the endorphins and gives me a real thrill. But I still have bad days.
Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.
The thrill isn’t in the winning, it’s in the doing.
It’s such a thrill in a relationship to be able to collaborate creatively. It’s very romantic, and I like it.
My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut – he’s my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don’t really remember what we talked about.
I got a chance to host the ‘Late Late Show’ for two nights before they hired Craig Ferguson. I enjoyed it, but nothing can replace the thrill of calling an NFC championship game or a Super Bowl or a World Series.
Obviously it’s a thrill to direct a ‘Jurassic Park’ film, and it’s a great honor.
The excitement of wading into ‘reality’ and just finding out what happens – and then the challenge of selecting those things that happened and shaping them in the editing into a narrative that will have appeal and be engaging – is a great, great thrill.
It’s a thrill to see the birth of an artist.
By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn’t a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.
I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.
To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it’s a thrill to start a friendship even up.
To be given a lead role in something as cool and fresh and crazy as ‘Spartacus’ was a real thrill. That had a lot to do with the evolution of my ambition as well.
I’m always caught up in the thrill of award season: The golden statues, the glamorous stars, and the fabulous gowns.
When I was singing Jamie’s Cryin’, people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.
I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
I’ve been with Team Canada for a lot of World Cups and World Championships, and to be part of an Olympic team would be a huge thrill for me.
I am not a label snob and have learned that the thrill of shopping can be just as great, if not more so, when you find a bargain.
I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.
We often mistake the artificial chemical and psychological thrill of fake edges for the real. In fact we often seek them out as a substitute for the reality of change, growth and exploration. Our minds and bodies help us in this, as they react much the same to this simulations as to the real world.
There’s an undeniable thrill in seeing what’s most current in our lives offered back to us in fictional guise, but it soon dates and it’s never enough.
I like the thrill of not knowing what’s happening.
I can’t tell you the thrill and joy of when I was cast in my first Broadway show. Granted, it was ‘Starlight Express’ and it was exhausting, but it was my first time on Broadway, and there was nothing like it.
If I spend 10 days at home, I’ll be dying to get back to the set. I love the thrill of a good dialogue, the buzz of shooting.
The best feeling in the world is performing in front of a live audience who like what you’re doing. I can understand why people become dictators just because of the thrill they get making the speeches.
I’m a bargain shopper! I get a thrill from looking like a million dollars in an outfit that costs next to nothing.
The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can’t just wander off and get interested in your own tangent.
The thrill of doing ‘Good People’ is I love those kinds of stories, and I’m good at them, and it’s wonderful to see that material given to a terrific director and a terrific cast.
Maybe I’m old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals – particularly the endings of shows.
I don’t go to record stores to look at my albums, but it’s always a thrill to see them.
I’m not just a biker. I trail run. I have no problem with heights. I’m a thrill seeker.
I love being the first person to play a part. I really get a big thrill out of it.
Nothing can replicate the thrill of making a great save at an away ground, or hearing your own fans cheering you, or the atmosphere when you score a goal or win a big game.
There is nothing like the thrill of walking through the jungle looking for a tiger and knowing they could be watching you already.
My kids miss me when I’m away, but I don’t mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq… it’s such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It’s changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.
I have acted in over 50 films and 15 daily soaps, but the thrill I feel while performing for my home audience is unparalleled.
But as the years have gone by, I’ve got such a thrill out of shopping for other people. Every time someone tells me they have purchased something, I feel so happy.
We spent our honeymoon at a fabulous place called the Grapevine Canyon Ranch near Tucson, Arizona, and totally fell for the City Slickers fantasy, so it would be wonderful to take the children there now that they are old enough to appreciate the thrill of cattle herding on horseback and sleeping out in the desert.
