I try and make little stories. Whether it’s with a pencil or with bits of records, it’s really the same thing.
My next thing could be something in hardware. It’s never been easier to turn bits into atoms.
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.
Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain’s working differently. It actually feels like different bits of my head are springing into action.
Part of the problem of comedians doing specials every year – when the masters do it, it’s like, ‘Okay, I guess, go for it’ – but when people aren’t at the top of the top level, bits don’t get to cook long enough.
Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.
If you look at any creative person’s work, you can see bits and pieces of their influences. That’s what an artist does.
I’d take bits and pieces from a fighter, if I liked what they did, and I’d put it in my arsenal. I never wanted to fight like or be like any other fighter. I wanted a style that was unique for me.
I’ve always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I’ve done bits of journalism.
I write books and songs and all sorts of bits and pieces on the side. It’s important to have that creative outlet – I’m really passionate about it.
I can’t write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I’m good for.
My first taste memory is of our nanny in South Africa making white bread sandwiches with salad cream, which was potato mashed with a cheap mayonnaise thing with bits in it of – I suppose – pickled cucumber. I absolutely loved them.
I’m 28, and for the next six or seven years my goal is to try to fight for the yellow jersey. If I can win it once I would be chuffed to bits.
We kept my middle schooler home from school for three days before we turned in our final draft because she was so mean and so brutal at editing out all the cheesy bits. She would roll her eyes and make fun of us, and it was what we needed.
My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can’t skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what’s going on.
I’ve got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.
I really can’t be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that’s nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.
There are bits of me in all my characters.
The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.
When I was 16, my dad took me to a DNA conference at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, California, and I was captivated by this way of looking at biology and by the discussions of bits of nucleic acid that could make us sick.
I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I’m really a paddler on a beach.
I used to love looking at a recipe, getting all the bits and pieces in the shops, getting them ready and prepared… I don’t really have the time to do that anymore.
Once anyone who has a sense of humor can do what they want, they want to do funny bits as much as possible.
Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.
I didn’t realise until I did CBT that I was a perfectionist. Whenever you do anything, there are always going to be things that go wrong, it’s never going to be 100 per cent perfect. Because of how I was, I’d focus on those bits and always see the negative in anything.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
I hate when people eat food and talk with their mouth full. I always cover my mouth when I eat, but I’ve had it where there’s little bologna bits flying on your food.
The whole world of ‘Game of Thrones’ was realized with such detail, with directors and writers who really geeked out and really loved all the little bits of it.
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you’ll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
I’d go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.
The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.
My family taught me to be adventurous. As fearless eaters, mum and dad were never afraid of exposing us to strange textures, scents, and offally bits – the works.
Sitting around with Jim Carrey, coming up with bits, is, like, beyond a dream come true.
In order to become a complete driver I believe that rallying will give me extra bits, because of gravel, because of different characteristics.
When I first started in telly, I had a lot of negative comments… but then I suddenly realised I couldn’t be anyone else and actually the bits where I mess up or I’m just me seem to be the things that work.
I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.
It was a really lucky childhood and while, yeah, there were bits of darkness, which is known about because my mother has made no bones about her struggle with depression, the overriding memory of it is a very happy, good one.
I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it’s not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.
When the National Theatre was built, it was a public building. If you wander round that building now, there are bits hived off for people who pay more money. That’s happening across the arts.
When I was at Babbo, I was covered in scars and scabs and burned bits – melted hair, ribbed burns I got reaching across the top of a hot skillet… I sliced off the tip of my finger. I cleaved my forehead – a deep, ugly wound. Luckily, it regenerated.
The electric guitar’s a pretty cheesy thing when you think about it, still working on those bits of wire and magnets for its sound. It’s all of the things that are wrong with it that have made it the unique instrument it is.
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational – and I’m speaking the written science fiction, not ‘Star Trek.’ Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they’re clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.
I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.
When you find that person that’s your person, you see all the good bits and the bad bits and love them completely anyway.
It’s hard to say what you learn acting a part. You find bits and pieces of yourself that are inside the character you play. You locate the relatable aspects of that character to your own life. So, in a way, every part you play forces you to discover things about yourself you might not have learned otherwise.
I was never a huge 007 fan, but I sure liked Sean Connery. I’m sure Pierce Brosnan is good and has his moments, but I’ve not seen him; I’ve only seen bits and pieces on TV, so I can’t really judge. Pierce looks very natural in the role.
When I was doing ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ I was asked, ‘If there was one part of your life that you could erase, what would it be?’ And I was so stunned by that. I thought: ‘Nothing.’ I would keep all the good bits and the bad bits, because those things made me who I am.
I spent years doing ‘Star Trek’ bits and things, and a lot of people loved it, a lot of people mocked it.
Really, I just love doing comedy. Any form it takes is great, as long as I can keep doing it, you know? If I can do my show and ‘The League’ while also getting to do other bits, that’s awesome.
