I get to teach my daughter what I’ve learned. I don’t want her to feel she has to be a certain way to impress society. If she wants to spit or go play some ball, I’ll be so proud, because that’s who I am, and that’s a real person.
You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there’s another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.
I’m one of the most superstitious people I know. There are these two battling parts of me, one is very rational and intellectual, and the other part of me, at my core, I believe in magic in a certain way, and serendipity.
I have a certain point of view, a certain way to plate food, certain ingredients that I like to use.
I’m not signing on to direct ‘Black Panther.’ I think I’ll just say we had different ideas about what the story would be. Marvel has a certain way of doing things, and I think they’re fantastic, and a lot of people love what they do. I loved that they reached out to me.
I think you just have to do you, whatever that is, and not feel like you have to be a certain way for other people to like you.
Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves – and represent you – in a certain way.
Being timeless means you can listen to something when you’re feeling a certain way, and it still has that same power as it did when you listened to the record for the first time. Timeless is abnormal. It sticks out. It can’t be recreated.
In terms of whether my mom was influential, I think she instilled a certain way of thinking in me quite early: having a reflective mindset regarding my actions and trying to find the underlying reasons to behavior. I think that’s quite helpful when you’re trying to understand a character.
I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.
There is a certain way that I play. You just have to have a feel for it. That’s something you have to feel as a football player.
I like everything a certain way. I’m not somebody who can just lay back and let it happen… And I think that’s what’s gotten me to where I am in life.
I have a daughter, and it’s a very bad message to send to my daughter that to be valid or accepted or to have value, you have to look a certain way. It’s all about appearance, and not about education and not about contributing. I think we’ve completely lost our way.
Truthfully, I’m proud of each of my films in a certain way.
When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that’s the time to try to let other people know about it.
The thing that got me closest to doing Kermit was remembering what Jim did when he was doing Kermit. When he would do Kermit, there were certain faces that he made. There was a certain way he stood, a certain kind of body language that he had.
A lot of people might think the job of a model isn’t necessary anymore, but just like an actor, singer – how they make you feel a certain way – how watching a dancer gives you emotion, models can do the exact same thing to many different people.
There were a lot of assumptions that we were raised a certain way. Our dad was always really clear with us that he is rich and we are not: ‘If you want to be rich, you should go do what I did, which is work really hard.’
Strangely, or maybe not so strangely, a lot of the roles that I am offered are of Muslim characters, maybe because I looked a certain way in ‘Neerja.’ But I am actually Parsi.
Each actor is different and not everyone is looking for the same thing. For instance, I have never worried that people have to think of me in a certain way or have to accept me when I return to screen after a sabbatical.
I think basically, there are some bands and acts who feel the need to cultivate a persona or act a certain way or get quotes or whatever, because they feel like that helps them get promotion, and I feel like we’re a band who have always just made music that we love and kept ourselves to ourselves and got on with it.
You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair… If you’re a woman it’s even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.
The way I look at it, competing at a high level, whether that’s business, art or film, athletics, anything you do, there’s a certain way to go about it.
I actually think I’m still quite childishly optimistic in a certain way, which is maybe why I find life quite shocking.
I wanted people to connect to me on that level where I can write about anything, but it would still make someone feel a certain way.
In my experience, people looking for progress aren’t actually looking to move things forward. They’re looking to be perceived in a certain way: as a forward thinker. It’s about vanity rather than any altruistic motives for the art.
What I’m dealing with in ‘Hellboy’ is a lot different, bigger in a certain way. It’s very Shakespearean. It’s demons and witches and stuff like that. But it has a similar core to a dude who’s trapped in horrible circumstances who’s just trying to be a good guy.
When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it’s difficult to find your own identity.
