It alarms me to think of all that I have read and how little of it has stayed with me.
‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ was – I came in before they started shooting and basically worked on Charlize Theron’s character for the most part. I guess I probably worked four or five weeks on that one and stayed during production a little bit with them.
First and foremost: I’m a metal fan. I’m a musician, an artist, but I’m a complete fan and I’ve never grown out of the complete fan faze I had when I was 13 or 14 – that’s always stayed with me. I’m always trying to discover new bands.
At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody else’s rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.
If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.
The lack of ‘quality’ films in Pakistan was one of the reasons why I stayed away.
My mother was an awful cook, an exceptionally awful kosher cook, but I stayed kosher until I got to college, even though I’d long stopped believing in God.
I grew up Dalgety Bay, in the Kingdom of Fife, in a 1970s bungalow. We moved there when I was nine and stayed for about six years.
To make a breakthrough in Hollywood, you have to be committed to doing it, which is true of anything in life. I was already a big star in India and I stayed with that.
For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we’ve also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late ’50s and early ’60s rock n’ roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that’s just always been who we were. As much as we’ve evolved, that’s stayed the same.
I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.
It annoys me a great deal when people accuse me of not having any ambition because I’ve stayed at Southampton all these years. You can’t get more ambitious than to aim to play for England, can you?
For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life’s list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.
I don’t work all day, every day on ‘Rizzoli & Isles,’ but I work every day. It may be a scene or two, or it may be an enormous workload, but there’s really not a lot of room for anything else, and that’s the choice I made. And that’s why I stayed away from TV before: Because I know that that’s what it is.
I’m in Atlanta all the time shooting and recording. That’s why I stayed.
I’m fortunate in one way and I can take pride from the fact that I’ve consistently performed for 10 years, which is something that not many people can do. I’ve consistently stayed near the top for 10 years which is maybe something that is overlooked and taken for granted.
You stayed up on the record business by knowing who was doing what. You watched the Phil Spectors. That’s what told you what to do, what was hot.
We’ve been called the soundtrack of people’s lives. There have been lots of downs, of course but mostly ups. That EW&F is still clicking at least twenty years on and has a life of its own, that the songs have stayed alive – we’re like a good book that people go back to.
I stayed out of the sun when I was young, not because I knew better, but because I’m a Type A personality who gets too restless to lay around and do nothing.
Probably I would have got more money if I’d stayed in Italy. It was said that I took England for the money. Absolutely not. I took it because it’s the biggest football job in the world, the finest job you can have. I enjoyed it every day.
People turn professional and they are not running as fast as they did in college because it is a lot different, but I wanted to make sure that I didn’t have that kind of transition and always stayed on top.
What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, ‘If you’ve never at some point stayed up all night talking to your new boyfriend about the meaning of life instead of preparing for the test, then you’re not really an intellectual.’
‘Milk’ doesn’t imply that all gay men who stayed in the closet were cowards.
The places I’ve worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on.
I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It’s a terrible thing to do.
When you look at a kitchen, you tend to see that the people who are doing really well are those who have worked with the same chef or stayed in one restaurant for a significant amount of time.
My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn’t find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who’s not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.
The fact that our band has weathered so much and stayed together for so long and we still get on stage and have a good time together, that’s a big deal for us. We don’t take that for granted.
I’ve stayed in enough hotels so I really know what works and what doesn’t design-wise.
When TV came along some years back I purposely stayed away from drama.
I came to New York to study theater and stayed and was doing exactly what I wanted to do. It’s because of that work that some doors eventually opened for me.
I didn’t do it for the money. I know a lot of people say that, but if I’d wanted to be rich, I’d have stayed working as a city lawyer. I gave that up eight years ago and took a massive drop in salary, and I didn’t mind because I was doing what I loved. There’s plenty of material for the other five books.
Woody Allen stayed so good because he never left New York. Howard Stern stayed so good because he never left New York – Mel Brooks when he just got out of New York was doing ‘Blazing Saddles;’ when he left New York he started doing stuff like ‘Robin Hood Men In Tights’ – he was in L.A. too long. He lost the edge.
My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.
The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.
I was always taught as a kid that if there’s anything you want in life, you’ve got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really. But also, for me, from the time I was, like, 10 years old, all I ever wanted to do was be in a band and make music.
I’m not better than anyone else. I’m not supposed to be on a pedestal. I’ve always stayed away from that.
My character Pinky Bua was very popular and I had a contract with the channel. When they told me that I can continue with the role, I stayed back. However, I wasn’t getting any creative satisfaction.
When I think back on my favorite teachers, I don’t remember anymore much of what they taught me, but I sure remember being excited about learning it. What has stayed with me are not the facts they imparted, but the excitement about learning they inspired.
I’ve stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I’m still not sure that I’ve stayed in an English country house.
They stayed by my side the whole time – my teammates, family and all the fans.
At the end of the day, I looked at my options. I wanted to be in the NBA. I wanted to pursue my dream. It was my choice. But sometimes, just for fun, I think about how it would’ve been if I’d stayed in college.
Obviously, over the history of certainly the last 300 years, it was that men went out and worked, and women stayed home. Yes okay, that’s the way it was. But certainly it isn’t that women weren’t able to do it.
It’s a huge honor to be put in the Hall of Fame… it’s even better because I played there for six years, and I left on bad terms. To be able to come back and be recognized – in hindsight, I wish I would have stayed, because everyone understands my career was large in Orlando.
I’ve stayed put in the neighborhood where I first got my start and will never forget the people that believed in me and gave me my first chance.
Like everybody, I’ve stayed up at night regretting things – Why did I do that, say that – but at the end of the day, I really do believe everything happens for a reason.
I wanted to go to the underdog team – I wanted to build something somewhere like a lot of the other guys who stayed home at Maryland, like Vernon Davis and players like that. I wanted to stay home and do it in front of my family and my friends… Those thing matter to me.
A childhood favourite that has stayed with me over the years is Kate Winslet. She’s an amazing British actress who always delivers no matter what role she’s in. Another actress I’ve found incredibly inspiring is Olivia Colman.
There are some people who have stayed with us our whole career, which is pretty cool too.
I always believed in myself, and I knew if I worked hard, stayed positive and did what I was supposed to, that good things would happen.
I stayed because it was normal. After the first hit, you don’t think they’re going to do it again. And it does escalate, but I stayed because it became normal. I didn’t call the police because I didn’t want them to go to jail and it just was normal.
