Actors don’t really sit around discussing the parts they’ve played – just in case someone says, ‘That was crap!’
The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there’s a single numeric average. But if it’s a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that’s crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.
Good action films – not crap, but good action films – are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.
Music for me was always life changing. So if I’m putting out crap music, then I have not done what I came to accomplish.
Boy, there are days where I get up and say ‘Where the hell did my talent go? Look at this crap that I’m producing here. This is terrible. Look, I wrote this yesterday. I hate this, I hate this.’
One man’s content is another woman’s crap. And the crappy content – let’s call it crontent – will never go away.
No, I don’t spend a lot of time in the studio, man. I truly don’t. I’ll be in there when I have to. I hate the containment, I can’t stand the schedule crap.
I think what sets this one apart is that there are two horror movie icons finally battling each other. You actually see them beat the crap out of each other instead of just terrorizing the kids in the movie.
When I invite people over to my apartment, they usually don’t like it because the music I play confuses the crap out of them – I’m making people listen to the ‘Final Fantasy’ soundtrack, and they’re like, ‘Why is this happening? Let’s just leave and find somebody who wants us to have fun and not teach us about something.’
In my 20s, I railed against anything ‘spiritual’; I thought it was all crap.
I’ve always loved clothes, especially handbags and shoes. I’d rather save my money on clothing and wear crap, but have the handbags and shoes. I used to buy a Ferragamo or Louis Vuitton bag every job that I got. Now I have a child, and we pay for private school, so I’ve had to scale back!
Lyrically we tried to just not be the same as a lot of the other crap that is out there right now.
We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.
I do live a very Hugh Beaumont existence. I’m up every morning, taking my kids to school and all that, which obviously does interest me. But then it’s taking meetings with goofballs and auditioning for crap, and then I spend a lot of time on the road.
With all the crap that’s going on around the world, you kind of want to do what you can to protect the ones you love.
For so many years of my career, I was The Big Show. So in the back of my mind – whether it was ‘fat’ or aesthetically not pleasing or whatever crap people want to sling around – I enjoyed being The Big Show. I enjoyed being 450 pounds.
I’m crap at interviews. I’m just not very good at sentences.
So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven’t realised.
People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don’t want to turn on the TV and say, ‘What is this crap?’
There was a time in my life when I used the word ‘crap’ regularly and unthinkingly.
Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me.
So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction.
I don’t usually talk crap about guys.
I mean do women like to get the crap scared out of them at the movies? Sure. Of course.
I have a slightly crap blog where I opine on anything that occurs to me and run the occasional silly competition.
You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we’re all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we’re trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I’m confronted with on a daily basis.
I love to do voiceover because, for me, if you know what you’re doing, it’s simple. No makeup, no costuming, none of the baloney. None of the egos – you don’t have to deal with all that crap. I love voiceovers.
I’ve always loved clothes, especially handbags and shoes. I’d rather save my money on clothing and wear crap, but have the handbags and shoes.
I was always told that films were evil and such, but I started to realise what a load of crap it was that something this good should be forbidden. I had been allowed to read as much as I wanted when I was younger, so I recognised great art when I saw it; I just didn’t realise it would be at the cinema as well.
Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They’re cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.
I used to think the store detective had followed me all the way home and would knock on the door and go, ‘Hello, is this your daughter? She’s got three blue lipsticks and a moisturiser from Boots in her bag.’ We just used to nick crap. Not even stuff we wanted.
I’m not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon – there’s no such thing. No actor can be the person, that’s a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
It’s a sad situation when you have to talk crap about other organizations that you know your paths are never going to cross competitively.
We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living – the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living – is play.
The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.
I’ve never worked for the sake of working. There’s probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.
I’ve still gotta come across as happy when inside I feel crap!
Generally, magicians don’t know what to say, so they say stupid and redundant crap like, ‘Here I am holding a red ball.’
All this crap the church puts on you about divorce is just crap. You do the best that you can do, and when you can’t do it, you can’t do it.
The best movies now are called ‘thrillers.’ Because if you use the word ‘horror,’ people’s associations are straight-to-video crap.
If you have an ongoing relationship with a person, think of everything positive about that person that you possibly can and enter your interaction from that space. Ignore all the crap that used to drive you up the wall before. You will be amazed at what a change this attitude shift brings about.
The trick to acting is not to show off; it’s to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It’s a trade you learn.
If you tell a lie that’s big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you’re telling the truth, even if what you’re saying is total crap.
NASA didn’t give a crap what gender you were or what race you were. If you could do the math, you were valuable.
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it’s total crap to pretend it’s not.
I’m not a flag waver for obesity. It’s not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.
I just think political correctness is crap.
I have days where I feel like crap and I look at my body and I’m like, ‘I haven’t been able to work out as much. I can see my butt drooping a little bit.’ And I’m just like, ‘Oh well.’
If you’re trying to portray that I take massive business decisions in pubs and bars, then that is total crap. It is not the norm, otherwise I’d have to live in a pub because I take business decisions all day, every day.
Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you’ve got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn’t call it gestural crap.
I like crisp words like ‘blimey’, ‘yikes’, ‘crap’ which describe consternation, embarrassment, and sometimes wonderment without making me type so many alphabets.
Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we, as black people, we’re never going to be successful – not because of you white people but because of other black people. When you’re black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people.
I had a little radio next to the bed and I’d just listen to the top 10 – I mean, it was crap but I was young – and I would get up in the dark with the moon coming in through the window and I would just dance in my pajamas in the dark to the top 10. I didn’t have a CD player… so it was kind of all I had, you know?
A lot of crap goes on in media studies, like in almost everything.
The art schools… you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
When I first started acting, I was just crap.
I’m not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.
