Sudheer Varma is very easy going and very confident director. He knows exactly what he wants. He has a very good vision and knows how many shots he wants for a scene. He is super fast. He gives freedom for actors to try different things. The atmosphere on the sets was never serious. We had great fun working together.
In golf I have my support team, and though I hit the shots, I say ‘we’ a lot, because ‘we’ made it happen.
There are very few actors in L.A. who can call their own shots. If you’re able to work on something that you actually like working on, you’re a very lucky person, and if you’re able to keep it going, you’re very fortunate.
I’m very impatient. I am. That’s the bane of my game. I don’t think about what I’m going to do – I just go hit it, I don’t stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
I’ve never been in this position where I’ve had to take an ‘X’ amount of shots, where I’ve had to focus on scoring. All of my career has been being a defensive player just running the floor.
But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.
When all your teammates make shots, it’s easy to get assists. Nobody feels the pressure to score. It makes the game so much easier.
You can get caught up in making and missing shots, but the game is so much more.
It’s important to get some balanced scoring on the floor. For me, I’ve got to make shots.
I’ve always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.
The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.
TV helped me understand camera angles, close-ups, master shots.
What I need to do is relax, take my time, and make my shots count. That will give me more energy later in the fights but also allow me to throw the punches harder.
I don’t do nudes. I don’t do semi-nudes. I don’t do cigarette shots. It took me a long time in the business to realize I didn’t have to do everything people told me I should if I wanted a career.
On the road to the GOP nomination, Trump earned the reputation as a good debater by slandering and bullying his opponents, knocking them out with cheap shots and lies. On a crowded stage, Trump got away with these deplorable tactics.
I grew up watching LeBron and asking him to follow me back on Twitter, going to his camps. So just to be able to compete against a player like him and be a few shots away from beating him and his team to go to a championship is something I will always remember.
If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I’d rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
Before I went to Liverpool, I was a striker and then sometimes a No. 8 or No. 10, and my thing was shooting, finishing, and long-distance shots.
You can make sure your kids make their beds and hang up their clothes and put their dishes in the dishwasher when you’re the one calling the shots. So, parenting alone, for me anyway, I think is almost easier, being single.
I have to fight to keep my image really me… I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn’t look like me.
Show your intent and it’s not about playing all your shots, like Fakhar Zaman, only Fakhar does that.
I’ve had a different kind of career on the periphery of show business. I’ve never been on any kind of corporate timetable whereby every six months I have to pop out a record like a pulping mill. I’ve called my own shots. When I get tired, I take time off.
I’m not wild about hand-held shots.
The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You’re feeling gun shots. I mean, it’s not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That’s what you feel.
I remember far more shots that cost me matches than the ones that won me matches. That is maybe the way you think if you are someone who has won a lot of tournaments and had a successful career.
When you first come to practice, you learn the guys. You’re going to play with them for the next couple seasons. You just need to know what shots they like, how they run, how good a lead they are. You need to know your personnel.
You take your shots when you have them, and I threw a lot of touchdowns, but I’m always going to take care of the football in the red zone.
I’ve said it before, I’m not a matchmaker, I don’t call the shots. I just prepare and fight the guys after I sign the contract.
If I stay patient in the offense, shots will come.
A shooter takes shots, a shotter makes shots.
My homies that are around me never give me that ‘star pass.’ I’ve hung out with some stars who are playing basketball and everyone let’s them score all the baskets. Shooting pool, they let them make all the shots. My homies don’t let me get away with that.
Alex Zamm is probably the most talented director I’ve ever worked with. He is so good at working with actors and crew and setting up his shots.
I think what ‘Four More Shots’ wanted to do from the word go is to create a narrative where women have the agency. None of the characters are perfect. They have their flaws.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.
I’ve never been a guy that’s been salty about the shots I’m getting. I just try to play the right way.
Once I wrote ‘Atmosphere,’ I thought, ‘This is my story; it’s me and my life and what I’ve gone through to get to where I am.’ I’m not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable – one more thing that people can fire shots at.
When you open up the court, now the point guards can see, they can score, and they’re not afraid to take shots. Before it was like, ‘No, don’t take that shot. That’s a bad shot. Pound it inside. Pound it inside.’ And the philosophy has gone a little bit away from that, because it makes sense to do it the other way.
I was a sportscaster right out of school. I used to do the nightly newscast and the nightly sportscast and I would write, produce, do live shots. Yeah, I loved it. That’s how I cut my teeth in the business.
Visual-effects shots should flow into the rest of the live action, and you shouldn’t be able to see a difference.
At first, when I did everything myself, I’d set up a tripod, film and then press stop. That’s why all my shots are on a tripod and don’t move, and that’s why my videos are still filmed this way.
If I get my teammates going early, then my shots usually open up. Come off pick and roll and make the pocket pass on the first one. Then it’s like OK, does the defender step up now? Then next time I may have the layup. So, just playing the game like that. Reading and reacting and not thinking too much.
I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say ‘this is where I want to be… I want this look.
Antonio Inoki majored in strong style. He showed real emotion with real technique in the ring. Hard shots that look like hard shots. But the important steps is the real technique from the real martial arts. It means detail is important.
The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury.
I want to be the guy calling the shots.
In college we could take tough shots and your field goal percentage would go down.
The Taliban are terrible shots. At the end of some long patrols, we’d be walking through the fields and get shot at – and we’d just keep walking.
I am always in self-doubt… every moment of my filmmaking. I am supremely confident when the story is being written and everything is in our head. But the moment we get into the filmmaking, I start doubting myself – from the camera angle to the re-recording to getting the actors to do their shots.
Welterweights have what heavyweights have but they also have what flyweights have. We have speed and power. We have what it takes to keep a certain tempo but also deliver the hard shots that the heavyweights have.
I hate big shots of adrenaline. It means you don’t have enough margin.
I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It’s demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening at the same time and frame all those things in a shot. But I feel like when you accomplish that then you’ve got a cool action scene.
When you’re younger, you might make some shots you’re not normally capable of, because you’re more fluid, maybe stronger, maybe faster. As you get older, you learn not to take those crazy shots.
I’m always trying to block shots.
I always get mad when guys make shots in the first quarter, second quarter, pumping their chest, and then the game on the line, they miss. So you’re doing all that for no reason.
