The greatest things in life tend to happen outside our comfort zones, and doubting your ability to step outside of your comfort zone will keep you stuck.
I’d rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.
On ‘Idol,’ I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.
There’s this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn’t really interest me. To me, it’s kind of like saying, ‘Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.’ Well, you don’t.
I wanted to find a way of life that allowed me great freedom, not to be stuck. I went to a very traditional school, which prepared people for the army or for banking or for industry, and I wanted to be outside of that.
My name became a brand, and I’d love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I’ve stuck to that ever since.
Like most dancers, I love lip stains! We hate gloss because hair gets stuck in it.
I don’t really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
I’ve been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I’m not, I’ll get stuck in front of it.
I was trying to be a clinical psychologist for years. But I kept getting stuck in comedy.
Certain things make me anxious. God forbid I get stuck in an elevator.
If we’re stuck with having expectations, there’s a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It’s that we often create what we anticipate.
Although focusing is best pursued as a deliberate strategy over a period of time, it is also valuable as a kind of psychological first-aid, as useful to a distressed, ‘stuck’ person as a tourniquet to an accident victim.
You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped – kind of stuck in the ’50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.
Yes, the first job I had at the studio was Snow White. I don’t like the term particularly, but I got stuck with the human characters. They just didn’t have that many people who could draw humans.
Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they’re really not listening, or they’re listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they’re so right that they’re not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.
I’m not stuck in Strikeforce. I’m happy to be with them. It’s where I started, and they’ve been great to me.
When I first went to college, I went into physics, and my goal was to help perfect nuclear fusion so I could solve the energy crisis and global warming. I probably would have done it, too, if I’d stuck to it.
We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
I am really happy that even though I am stuck in the comedy genre I have not been typecast. I am still getting to experiment a lot with my characters, which is a boon.
I don’t use supari at all, as that gets stuck in your throat.
There’s nothing worse than being stuck with a bad song.
With me having this raspy voice, people always asked when I was going to sing on a song. When I was going at it with 50, people were saying I don’t sing on my own hooks. That always stuck in my head and people always told me I had to use my own voice not just to rap.
I picked up yoga. I tried to do cooking a little bit. I almost burned my house down, but it’s all good. So I just stuck to yoga.
I’m that type of person that if I feel like I’m doing the same thing in life, then I’m stuck. Always gotta be moving and doing something different.
I’ve always been a firm believer in mind over matter. If you don’t believe you can achieve, your body will start to believe this and you’ll be stuck.
It blows my mind – whenever you’re stuck in one place, you think this is how the world is, and then you walk out and see there’s so many layers to everything.
Whenever I get stuck on something, I’m like, ‘What would I do if I wasn’t afraid? What would I write if I wasn’t afraid? What would I say in this situation if I wasn’t afraid?’
If you’re looking to be loved for a part, it’s great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.
When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.
It’s been super weird because you have zoom meetings and then it’s like high school again, I’m stuck at home with my parents and the only time I get out of the house is to workout. Let’s just say it’s not been how I envisioned my pre draft process going.
I was 10 years old when the Northridge quake happened, and I lived right in the area, so it was a traumatic thing for me. I’d never had anything like that happen before. It’s always stuck with me.
I played against Kobe a lot when I was in high school during the summers, even in college, just being that guy in L.A. coming up. He always gave me advice here and there, and even the smallest things stuck with me. I watched every single thing that Kobe did, every game, every move. He made me a student of the game.
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
I’ve often thought I’m a short music hall comedian stuck in a leading man’s body.
George Dunne stuck his neck out for me in the ’70s, when it wasn’t a very popular thing to do.
We like to think, in our anthropocentric way, that irony means that you transcended something, but actually, what it means is that you’ve realised that you’re stuck in something, and you have this kind of uncanny awareness of that, and there’s not much you can do about that feeling of stuckness.
I’m usually working on several things at once. If I get bored with one, I can go on to another. That way, I never get stuck.
I stuck with a mustache because… do you know Magnum P.I.?
One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.
What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.
Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it’s there, you’re stuck with it.
When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don’t know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
If there ever was an ‘America’s team,’ it would be itty-bitty, little Green Bay, stuck way up there somewhere, owned by the salt-of-the-Earth citizens themselves.
I am happy that I am back and with a great project like ‘Vicky Donor.’ I have had a hard time in the past with ‘Johnny Mastana’ getting stuck but I hope this film brings positiveness into my life.
I get scripts and think, ‘There’s not enough here to get my teeth stuck into.’ That’s a result of studying English, where you luxuriate in these big, lush novels.
Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
I don’t really have a type. I just kind of hang out with girls that I think have a good personality, know how to have fun, active and definitely have something going on in their life so they are busy so I’m not stuck all the time hanging out.
One needs to constantly read up, practice and work, irrespective of your profession. If I feel as an actor that I know everything, then how will I to grow? How will I improve? I’ll be stuck in a rut, and eventually I’ll grow complacent.
When I was young I didn’t really go out a lot, and only stuck to my neighborhood, so I got to know the places in Seoul thanks to Lisa.
Even though your emotions aren’t wrong, that doesn’t mean you have to stay stuck in a particular mood. You can certainly choose to make changes that will influence the way you feel. If you want to change the way you feel, change the way you think and behave.
Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he’d say the same about me.
At least in Phoenix, you can get off the main highways and take side streets to where you want to go. In L.A., you can’t. You’re stuck.
There’s a wonderful adage in acting that you’re stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.
I’m still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they’re 35. Maybe that’s why I make music that is relevant to young people. I’m emotionally stuck at the age of 13.
