I never called him Prince because I wanted him to be a person to me, not the man behind ‘Purple Rain’. Plus, technically, I was married to the Symbol… When we got married, it was much easier. If someone else was there, I could say, ‘Could I speak to my husband, please?’
In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.
Without rain, there is no life.
Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord’s Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.
Third and 10 down by four at Lambeau Field in the drizzling rain… two minutes left. There’s nothing like that.
I like ‘I Can’t Stand the Rain.’ I like it because it has a really oriental feeling to it, an ‘oriental taste,’ it has an essence of Asia.
The right way to enjoy ‘Heavy Rain’ is really to make one thing because it’s going to be your story. It’s going to be unique to you. It’s really the story you decided to write.
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
We called ‘Heavy Rain’ an interactive drama, for whatever that’s worth.
Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I’ll keep providing the parade.
Dancing is never excruciating as preparing for it is. For instance, the song ‘Chamma Chamma’ had heavy outfits and even more heavy jewellery. ‘Kambakht Ishq’ was shot in extreme heat during the day and a rain sequence in the night, so we were literally drenched throughout the night.
Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers’ movement, I have discovered, and I don’t mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn’t cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn’t linked to acid rain.
Prince turned experimental music into pop music. ‘When Doves Cry,’ the whole ‘Purple Rain’ soundtrack – he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt ‘House of Balloons’ was.
If you type ‘Salt Flats’ into YouTube, you’ll find 100 amazing videos that were shot out there, but you won’t find any that were shot in the rain.
The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.
I’ve kissed in the rain so many times. I think one of my first kisses was in the rain. It was in Washington, D.C., with some kid named Dash, in eighth grade. It was in the rain.
I acted as a mood builder in ‘Love Rain,’ so I thought it was going to be a similar role in ‘Reply 1997.’ Then I found out it was for the role of Yoon Yoon Jae, so I said no. I didn’t think that I was in the position to take such a cool character.
I don’t see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn’t need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.
It was a bit difficult in England at first with the weather and the rain, but I love the football culture in this country.
I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.
You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.
When I first got turned on to ‘Purple Rain,’ I was just moved by Prince’s charisma and his just being free. Everything meant something, from the scream to falling on the ground to taking his shirt off. It just all meant something.
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy.
I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.
The rich have lots of money. The wealthy have lots of time. I’ve done enough to have lots of time today to watch sunrises and get drenched in the rain.
I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
‘Philistines’ was so beautiful, and it bored me to death. I never want to see another production where the rain splashes against a window and actors wander around in drab cardigans saying, ‘I’m so bored.’
The fans of ‘Speed’ are very different from the fans of ‘To Wong Foo,’ which are different from ‘Donnie Darko.’ Look at the classics I’ve been in: ‘No Country for Old Men’… ‘Little Miss Sunshine’… ‘Rain Man’ was my first big studio movie! How lucky is that?
Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you’re not James Bond.
Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.
I do cut my hair regularly because otherwise, after a few months, I wouldn’t be able to see the ball any more – especially when there’s a lot of rain.
Tell a woman it’s going to rain, and she’ll get out the umbrellas. Well, in the matter of money, there’s always the chance of rain ahead.
I don’t know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it’s pouring rain and then it’s hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It’s just so confusing.
Los Angeles has got its own distinct feel, and it’s very contrary to the music that I write and the pictures I see in my head: no evergreens, no fog, no rain days.
It’s true that you can’t take an individual rain droplet and say where it’s come from or where it’s going to end up. But you can say with pretty good certainty whether it will be cloudy tomorrow.
I did every odd job you could possibly imagine: Holding a sign in the rain for 14 hours straight, sweeping up cigarette butts, pouring coffee, running around – anything I could to be on a film set. I wanted to be in the business. So I’d say, ‘You need that job done? Fine,’ and I became indispensable to people.
I’m watching the Weather Channel more than I’ve ever watched it. I’m scared to death it’s going to rain.
Come rain or shine you look out onto your garden every single day, so it’s important and uplifting to have it done properly.
I remember the first vinyl I bought: ‘Purple Rain,’ my favorite Prince album, ever.
The irony is that you can’t use real rain to make movies.
I have vivid memories of leaving North Borneo at 8, and I remember the vast canopy of rain forest.
My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine.
If you’re lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.
People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they’re somehow discovering reality, but of course that’s just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
Into each life some rain must fall.
I actually was there down in Florida when Prince did ‘Purple Rain’ in the rain. He was out there with the guitar goin’. It was absolutely awesome.
It is no use to grumble and complain; It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain – Why, rain’s my choice.
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
More than half of Guatemalans are pureblooded Indians, descendants of the proud Maya-Quiche tribes. In their mist-shrouded villages, the Indians worship the corn god and the rain god, only vaguely concerned with the political entity known as Guatemala.
You can certainly make the case that we’re devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the planet.
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is the face of death. Yet snow is but the mask of the life-giving rain; it, too, is the friend of man, the tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertilizing snow.
I saw Rain dance on TV and decided that I wanted to sing and dance like him.
Potential is like a summer crop. If it don’t rain, it don’t grow.
I was part of Environment Canada’s work to stop acid rain, create national parks, clean up the Great Lakes, develop new environmental legislation and negotiate the treaty that saved the ozone layer.
I think it’s really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.
When I’m writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.
