I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. ‘Alien’, ‘Blade Runner’ just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons.
So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And what we had an idea for, they didn’t like. And what they had an idea for, we didn’t like. So, we went home.
When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race.
When I was about 10, I saw Timothy Bottoms in a tele-movie called ‘A Shining Season,’ and it really moved me. I was maybe 8 or 9. Timothy played a runner who had cancer, and he defied the odds by coaching a girls’ team to victory.
With each new pair of shoes, each new wrist-watch, each new Walkman or moisture-wicking wonder-material that runners put on, the sport became more alluring to me and to millions of others.
I could never be a distance runner, because I can’t run for more than ten minutes. There aren’t enough iPod gigabytes in the world to make that worth it for me.
Ask me what makes a champion runner, and I will tell you it helps to have the great good sense to choose your parents carefully.
I tied so much of my self-worth – and trust me, if you’re a runner, you understand this – to my performance.
I’ve been part of shows that are long runners, and they’re much more rigid. You get told, ‘This is where the character stands, and this is how you say that line because we know it gets a laugh.’
Long before social media made things like bib replication easier, banditing at major races was viewed as a brave act. Rebellious runners like John Tarrant gatecrashed races as a political statement, in protest of rules about amateurism that limited how much money athletes could earn in appearance fees and endorsements.
I have been begging our show runners to let us meet Dina’s dad since Season 1 when we learned that he abandoned her at a gas station when she was a kid.
Have you seen a marathon race? Some runners will be leading right from the first – but after the halfway mark, it is the runners at the back who take over while the early leaders fade out.
There is nothing in this world that I love more than my family. To be able to share the joy of running with them at the Runner’s World Half Marathon and Running Festival where we can all participate together is as close as you can get to a perfect weekend.
Being a runner has brought me a lot of patience, and patience goes a long way in life.
If I hadn’t have become a runner I would definitely be a zoologist now.
I just do my best to put the ball in play and put it in play where no one’s going to make a play on it and hopefully drive some runners in.
I would never know how good I was if I didn’t have Bob Arum. Bob Arum is white, Jewish; He was working for prosecutor’s office. I’m black, an ex-convict, ex-number runner. Who would be most likely to succeed? It would be Bob 100-1. Yet I beat Bob on everything we ever done, with love.
The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don’t know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.
In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.
Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.
I admire runners older than I – they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
For me, ‘The Kite Runner’ became about a guy who’s emotionally shut down because he hasn’t confronted his past.
Street Runner’ is a personal song about the sacrifices I made to pursue this career that I have now. All while never forgetting about the family and loved ones I’m doing it for.
The sets were incredible. You would walk in at 6 in the morning, and we were really living in ‘Blade Runner.’
Running is something you can do and be alone in your thoughts, and I like that. Maybe I’ve been a runner my whole life.
I am a marathon runner. I ran the New York City marathon and almost died. I tried to run, like, a two-minute mile early on in the race. I was crazy enough to think I could win. After seven miles I thought I would die, but I slowed down my pace and kept going.
It’s good fun making commercials because you are picked up in a posh car and pampered all day by your personal pamperer, or ‘runner’ as they are known in the business.
For professional athletes, the motives for cheating generally are more obvious: money, fame, and often a low likelihood of being caught. But why would a middle- or back-of-the-pack runner lie or cheat in a race that doesn’t even matter?
If you don’t ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It’s like the marathon runner. You’ve got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
I think that’s kind of nice that there’s this kind of inherent respect between runners who do a marathon. People respect somebody who has done it, and I will do anything to get some respect because I don’t get a lot respect in my life.
The people who really resurrected ‘Blade Runner’ was ‘MTV.’
I watch college basketball and sports in general. I’m also a runner. I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan near Central Park, so I try to squeeze in runs through Central Park when I can.
Being a runner means you are now ‘free’ to win and lose and live life to its fullest.
Base runners in postseason games are kind of tough to deal with at times.
With a smartphone in tow and a playlist humming, a runner may miss the crunch of leaves underfoot, the enthusiastic cheers of benevolent strangers, or even her own breath. And, for many runners, leaving the mobile device at home is the most liberating part of the sport.
I love ‘Alien’ and ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘2001.’
I’ve been into exercise my whole life, been a runner and been into health and fitness always.
I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children’s author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.
I was a runner in Delhi’s Army Public School. I started running when I was in class four and became the fastest sprinter in school and zone competitions by the time I reached class eight.
I was playing a defensive guard in ‘My All American’ who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn’t too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
Clearly, there are things a runner does, intentionally or not, that disrupt team cohesion. And there are also things a runner doesn’t do that can cause problems: not trying, showing up late, skipping team-building activities, and ignoring the coach’s instructions.
‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also ‘Blade Runner.’ And ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ is also one of my favorites. I’m always looking for sci-fi material, and it’s difficult to find original and strong material that’s not just about weaponry.
I run in the West Side highway. I’ve gotten recognized, but unless you’re a runner, you really can’t do nothing but just point.
I’m not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
Moving to Flagstaff from the big city of Melbourne taught me what it takes to become a better runner. For one, there is the altitude, but more importantly, seeking the best is about being surrounded by the best.
I wouldn’t say you worry about your health when you run. I would say a quarterback as an obligation to protect yourself as a runner, whether it’s getting out of bounds, sliding or getting down, whatever it might be.
It is in the failures of our striving that we find ourselves, and it is then, in the rising above them and trying again, that we carry ourselves to the next level. If the runner stumbles, they get up and run again.
I’m coming from a small town in Quebec where, at that time, there was no Internet, and the way to be in contact with movies were those American fan magazines like ‘Fantastic Films’ and ‘Starlog,’ and I still remember the shock, the impact of seeing the first frames, the first pictures coming out of ‘Blade Runner.’
Some runners have a constant progression, but mine was very stop and start because of injuries.
People underestimate me, but I’ve always been a stretch runner.
On average we’re meant to drink 2-3 litres each day, but for regular runners I’d recommend 3-5 litres.
I don’t know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I’m not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I’m concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I’ve never been a networker or I’ve never been very social.
When you have good runners, you always run fast. That’s the motivation for me. But I have room to improve in my technique and in the start.
When I got sober and started working out, I fell into that trap of working out too much. I know a lot of guys can relate to that – if you don’t get that runner’s high every day, you feel like, ‘Oh my God, I’m losing it.’
