I’m not used to performing in front of people. When I make TV it’s very intimate. In front of a crowd I get so nervous and I’m not that great at it.
It’s how I express myself – through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
It seems to me if you don’t know anything about child development you shouldn’t intimate in your ‘reporting’ that you do.
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
I think the things that are most intimate are nameless and shapeless.
I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
Every woman I’ve had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I’m at home, I clam up and won’t discuss anything intimate or personal.
I really like to do small venues. They’re more intimate.
What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?
I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.
I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.
The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
I really like small, intimate shows, but there’s nothing like playing at a festival. It’s a completely different experience. Everyone is just a little more primal; they can get away with more things.
Being on a successful television show is a good thing. It’s steady work. It’s a chance to work with a group of people in an intimate way… where you develop a sort of shorthand with each other, and a trust.
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
All art stems from a place of alienation. Intimate and alone. Most people are oppressed by the opinion of others, but I was not that way. I was afraid of the repercussions of not doing what I was told to do, what I was called to do by a creator.
I don’t like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don’t like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there’s a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world.
When you’re on stage singing, you’re naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that’s why I’m scared every time before I perform. It doesn’t matter if I’m singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it’s enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can’t do anything about it.
I’m very comfortable speaking to millions of people, but not comfortable in a small, intimate social setting. Like cocktail hour. I get very panicky.
When you do a movie as opposed to a TV show, it’s always tempting to think everything has to be big and exaggerated and spectacular. And in fact, a lot of the funniest comedy films have been very intimate.
There’s nothing like a home-cooked meal – nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, ‘Uh, my house.’ It’s more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.
It’s difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I’m kidding. I’m not.
The Cottage was one of my favourite stadiums to play in. It was such an intimate atmosphere, and I’ve just got so many great memories of playing there.
In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner’s foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.
I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people and governments clash, but I do not miss the danger or the constant displacement.
