There are certain things that I wish people knew – certain things that I feel I started and certain things that I’m responsible for. Sometimes you wish people knew where a certain style of rapping came from or who was the first one to say whatever.
Fans, and people in general, look to people to take certain things on, and I’m a guy you can take at face value. I speak my mind.
I walk out the house, and there’s paparazzi. There’s certain things I can’t do if I wanted to date or go on a date. It’s like, I have to worry about people taking pictures, and it’s crazy.
Any eyes on me – a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself – make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things.
I’ve always believed certain things: You treat everybody nicely because, more than anything, it’s the right thing to do. And then you also never know when someone will be in position to help you or hurt you. I know I’ve gotten help from a lot of people who said good things about me because I treated them well.
You know, we have our own audience, and it’s not like – they just know we’re not going to do certain things.
I am a very honest, open person and I think there is a tendency in celebrity autobiographies to gloss over certain things which have happened.
A lot of actors would tell you that they’d rather play the villain than the hero. When you’re the character, there are no repercussions. So there is a kind of liberating feeling about saying certain things to certain people – and I think that it’s always quite satisfying to do that.
As a Middle Eastern male, I know there’s certain things I’m not supposed to say on an airplane in the U.S., right? I’m not supposed to be walking down the aisle, and be like, ‘Hi, Jack.’ That’s not cool. Even if I’m there with my friend named Jack, I say, ‘Greetings, Jack. Salutations, Jack.’ Never ‘Hi, Jack.’
Even though we are reality stars, I feel it is important to keep certain things to ourselves.
Television tends to be a more difficult medium for me to get my head around sometimes when it comes to certain things I get offered.
I’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.
The thing about fantasy – there are certain things you just don’t do in fantasy.
I roughly draw the scene beforehand to be more confident on the set. Instead of talking and explaining certain things, I try to visually communicate the scene to my team with the story board. This is how I work.
When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it’s better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you’ll be fine.
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
When people question me too much, I generally ask them if such rules are applicable to someone like actor Mammootty. They reply, Mammootty is a man and you are a woman. You aren’t supposed to do certain things.’ And I go like, Why not? Are there separate rules for Muslim men and women?’
I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.
I had never considered myself a political guy, but there are certain things I can’t shut up about. When I hear people say things like, ‘If ‘we’ allow gays to marry, then people will want to marry animals and children,’ I can’t just stand there.
I’ve certainly had to bite my tongue on occasion and live to fight another day, so to speak, on certain things. But when you’re new and fresh, you come out and think, ‘I don’t want to screw my chance up, so I’ll go along with what everybody else does.’
I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
Photographs don’t ‘reveal’ much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of the world and direct our attention to certain things around us. In other words, they help us learn how to see.
When you have a background in combat sports, people think you’re this martial arts expert, but really I’m just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.
I was proper, proper fast at one point, and obviously I’m not now, so I’ve lost certain things, but when I was that fast I didn’t need to do certain other things in a game. It was such a potent weapon.
I feel like I’m going to have a long career and you don’t want to get a bad reputation for certain things.
Unless you have a sense of values that’s shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn’t work very well.
This is my point of view, and that’s why I call the show ‘Ramy’. I made the show that I would want to see. So it’s only going to hit on certain things.
I work with kids, and I see certain things, so I realize now why my mother was so horrified and overprotective of everything that I watched.
The league wants certain things. They want certain guys. I’m just not one of them. But I can’t help the way I am.
Theater is structured. You’re plugged into a system. It’s relentless. You’re expected to do certain things every day. You have your tasks.
I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I’d been brought up with being rubbed out, disregarded. There’s an awful lot of frailty and doubt about it, which I understand and share, but there are certain things you just have to acknowledge.
I do feel like since I am a third-generation wrestler, I do have to hold myself – and there are a lot of people that expect certain things out of me – I’m an athlete, and I’m a top athlete.
There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That’s the only time that I’m relaxing. It’s the only time I really get to examine myself.
Some people, you can see that they’re in a house just because it functions OK for them. It checks the boxes for certain things that they need, but you can tell that they’re not emotionally connected to the house.
There’s just certain things you don’t think about to enjoy a film. Bullets in space are one of them.
I am not good at making people understand certain things.
Growing up, I felt like I couldn’t talk about certain things until I had the outlets to do so. Once you’re able to be honest and say things as they are, it removes this crazy stigma and fear around it.
There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.
I’m a real band guy, you know? I’m really good at certain things, and the band stuff is one of them.
If they ask me to do something like ‘Emotional Atyachar,’ I am not doing that. I have a daughter at home, not that she will judge me but there are certain things, which I feel I don’t fit in at all.
I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where they may, and on not getting caught up in how people react to certain things. That’s a death trap creatively.
There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.
There are certain things you have to do to make a pass.
I will never stoop low to do certain things on camera.
It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.
I don’t pay attention to the number of birthdays. It’s weird when I say I’m 53. It just is crazy that I’m 53. I think I’m very immature. I feel like a kid. That’s why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can’t do certain things anymore – like doing the plank for 10 minutes.
There are certain things you don’t say that’s disrespectful. They detract from the point you’re trying to make.
We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that’s so striking is the whole area of politics.
There are certain things that they say you can’t do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That’s why you have so much crime and violence.
I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don’t need a strong political background in.
There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through. I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.
And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.
