Whenever you go on TV, there are so many checks and balances; it’s a big business with a lot of rules. Stand-up is intimate and the freest, most lawless place I’ve ever been able to go.
I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.
We can’t avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.
You might be talking to someone who relates a song to losing a friend and you end up talking in the most intimate way. You can get so engaged that you end up in this existential conversation.
I call people by their initials when they’re good buddies, and that’s a kinda street thing, too – ‘Here comes JF,’ or, ‘Here comes KC.’ It’s fun; it’s intimate.
Women can be quite intimate emotionally – they’re very emotionally available.
The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.
When you do acoustic shows, there’s always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people don’t want to hear me.
The conservative statement is that telomere length is a biomarker, but it’s probably not passive. There are some very intimate relationships between things such as molecular markers for inflammation and telomere health.
My wife knows that I love her too much, so she is fine with the intimate scenes I do. She also knows that only if my role justifies such a scene will I do it. She understands my work as an actor.
You have a different, much more intimate relationship with the characters in a novel than when writing a screenplay. You’re able to get inside their heads in a different way. You can understand their motivations more.
A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.
Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?
As for tweeting and texting: impassioned discussions, particularly when they’re intimate, don’t work in abbreviated script messages. No relationship should begin or end in 140 characters.
I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great in a kind of realistic normal story without throwing objects to the camera, but using the 3D on the emotions in an intimate story.
Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It’s something of your own. So there’s always this fear, because you feel naked. There’s a fear of not reaching up to expectations.
If you get people to commit to an email relationship, it’s the deepest, most intimate relationship you can have online. Much deeper than Facebook and certainly more intimate than a blog.
I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.
I sing at home all the time with my kids and my husband, and I will write music together. It’s kind of a very intimate thing for me.
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don’t get nervous for that. I just get excited.
The Gospel of Judas really has been a surprise in many ways. For one thing, there’s no other text that suggests that Judas Iscariot was an intimate, trusted disciple, one to whom Jesus revealed the secrets of the kingdom, and that conversely, the other disciples were misunderstanding what he meant by the gospel.
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.
I like doing very small, intimate things in the morning and then, in the afternoon, to be working on something in a big stadium.
I think all movie love scenes are hard because you can’t truly be as intimate as you would be with anyone you’re truly with, and everyone’s watching you.
Intimate scenes are like dance rehearsals – it’s all choreography.
No matter what happens with EDM, I would like to go to New Orleans and just play with one of those small funk bands in an intimate venue. How cool would it be to work with a band with those huge horn lines and produce all of that great funk that makes you just want to party?
We are surrounded by people with accents because America is a nation of immigrants. Beyond that, the people who made your iPhone and the shirt on your back are probably Asians, and we’re really not that disconnected from each other; we have very intimate relationships with the world, whether or not we realize it.
I believe we all grow because we share our experiences and our problems. We all have our intimate times. Why not share them?
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
I definitely prefer intimate crowds. I mean, those are always the best shows, like, a small venue. Packed to the gills. Hot, sweaty. Those are always the fun shows.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
To me, it’s pretty much the same thing – I just love playing music. But the cool thing about DJing is that I get to play other people’s music, I can mix it up between our songs and a variety of musical genres. It also enables me to be more intimate with the audience.
Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.
The Mac defined ‘personal technology’, and the iPhone defines ‘intimate technology’ as a convergence of communications, content and location.
When you have an intimate encounter with mortality as my family and I did with my mom’s death, I took a long look at my life and I asked myself what was the one thing that I hadn’t done that I had really wanted to do. And it was to write and direct a film.
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.
I can understand being in such a public place and having your intimate private life examined.
Making a film of a work you’ve played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you’ve worked out the behavior and life of a character.
The show that defined ‘M*A*S*H’ was the original interview episode with Clete Roberts. That was a way to look into these peoples’ lives and investigate their situation, their feelings being away from home on an intimate level.
I really enjoy being vulnerable, and it’s how I connect with other people, and part of how I do that is through food, by sharing something that I feel is very intimate and personal because it’s something that I create out of nothing.
I think one of the things that started to hinder Baldwin as an artist later on was that he became really aware of power, so he wanted it, too. But if you look at the work before that, before ‘The Fire Next Time’ put him on the cover of ‘Time Magazine,’ it was much more intimate and a much more internal conversation.
Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
To me, skin is alien and kind of weird; it weirds me out. It’s strange, but it’s also really intimate and personal; it’s living, organic. That’s how I want the music to sound; I want it to feel alien and strange, but also like it’s got a heartbeat, like it’s got a soul, like it’s not made by a robot.
For me, it is utterly incomprehensible how people share their private life, from truly confidential and intimate things, indiscriminately with thousands or even millions of people.
Since I was a very small child, I’ve had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.
I’ve never felt the breath of God – you can take that statement literally or metaphorically – more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.
To be honest I don’t think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size – intimate.
There’s something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone’s actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven’t.
How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
