I’m quite happy to laugh at Argentina’s obsession with ham and cheese, but not, you know, delicate bits of their history.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn’t appear to notice.
Everything was based on my life and the way I grew up. Some of the bits I’m most proud of in ‘Haters Back Off’ actually happened.
I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids’ bits. I’ve always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.
I think so often about how, when I was starting out at UCB, Conan O’Brien was in town, and on his show back then, they sometimes did character bits, and I started getting paid to dress up as a page or a Dutch boy on his show.
I don’t think it’s good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery – of relationships and life in general – is to learn to live with the bits you don’t like.
As the border between physical and digital gets more permeable, a new kind of literacy emerges. And that literacy is built on a foundation of code – whether it’s the codes of letters and words, or the code of bits and algorithms.
Whereas acting, you have to wait for someone else to give you the opportunity to do it, in comedy, you can just pick out your own strengths and be like, I’m just going to show the best bits to the world.
During a university gap year in Argentina I got a job presenting for MTV, and in my final year I was doing bits and pieces for them in London and at ITN. Then, when I graduated, MTV asked if I wanted to be a runner. I said: ‘Absolutely!’
The way I view drama is life with the boring bits taken out.
What people can survive and what they don’t survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that’s that.
Richard Pryor – he had stories, he had characters, he had short jokes, and he had bits. He had all those things. Eddie Murphy has all those things, and he can sing. A comedian is a bunch of stuff; it’s not just one area.
When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.
I do bits about dating but mainly about what I did and how incompetent I am, not any genuine people writing to me.
My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.
I’ve done bits of writing for other people but when I’m writing music as Years & Years, I’m using my life and my stories and my experiences. I want it to be authentic and real but also to work as a pop song – I never want to just put in a cheesy line.
I love watching ‘UFC’ – Ultimate Fighting Championship – I don’t know why, because I’m more of a coward than a fighter, but I seem to be very drawn to these blokes actually smashing each other to bits.
Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn’t have – until recently – were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That’s what the ‘kids for cash’ judges were apparently experimenting with.
Healthy camel crickets spend a lot of their waking hours grooming, so I have learned to recognize the ones that will soon die because they walk about encrusted with sand and bits of litter, having lost all interest in keeping clean.
I know how to use a tourniquet, a bandage, I know how to stitch, how to do CPR and a lot of technical bits too.
I pay attention to my nails. I have had this particular German nail kit for years, and I take it everywhere. If I don’t trim and file my nails, they turn into talons. I cook a lot, too, and I don’t like to see bits of food stuck under them.
I take my fun very seriously, whether it’s playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.
I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
In the world according to Apple, content is just a bunch of digital bits, easily copied, nothing special.
It’s unusual when you get scripts not wanting to change things – I’m one of those actors who writers must hate as I’m always wanting to rewrite or swap bits about.
In television, you are of necessity working in bits and pieces and scenes, and things are out of order, and you never can have the same sense of how will this look when it’s all put together, what will the effect be.
One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.
I don’t watch the show – only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Coming up with comedy is hard, man. Those bits aren’t easy to think of!
I don’t like talking about which bits I like or don’t like about my body. Everybody has something they’re not happy with, and my only advice would be, ‘Do something about it – exercise or eat less, but don’t do nothing!’ Find ways to enhance the good bits and camouflage the bad bits.
Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don’t work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it’s plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences.
At drama school I learned the Stanislavski technique, which uses sentimental memories and bits of your past to put real emotion into the scene.
I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing’s something that I love to do, but it’s not something that I pursue as a career.
I’m interested in businesses that take digital bits and turn them into interfaces for physical atoms. I’m also interested in drones, Bitcoin, and 3D printing.
In some ways, making documentaries is like being a journalist. You interview people and then use the bits you want to use as opposed to the bits they want you to use.
To make films is as boring as watching paint dry – you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back – the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.
We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.
I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit – the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
You don’t restore ‘The Last Supper’ by filling in the missing bits – you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.
We all have bits that we don’t like, but you don’t have to be a size 10 to look wonderful.
I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.
With a movie you’re creating from the beginning this particular work, let’s not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let’s just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.
As always, I keep my head up, look objectively at all the matches I played, see where I can improve, bits and pieces, and, you know, get ready as quick as I can.
With ‘Scratch,’ our goal is to allow people to mix together all kinds of media, not just sounds, in creative ways. We want people to start from existing materials – grabbing an image, grabbing some sound, maybe even bits of someone else’s program, and then extending them and mixing them to make them their own.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
‘Lassie’ was amazing. I didn’t have any scenes with humans. There’s a couple little bits, here or there, but mainly just me and my horse and a couple of dogs in the Isle of Man.
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.
Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.
In the past, I’ve been reluctant to share any bits of truth about myself or to really let people in on my reality. So I have said some things to throw people off the scent of what’s really going on in my life. So I have sort of aided the media in printing these misconceptions, which I regret.
