I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I’m not bored with my job. That’s been the entire principle. Got my wish.
When you play characters, you shouldn’t just be putting on their characteristics – you should be finding it inside yourself.
I’ve found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.
I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They’re amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they’d just be amazing documentarians.
I might just be way too boring to ever be a really great actress.
It’s extremely important that plays reflect contemporary times and should not just be about asking for social change without having any connect with the audience.
Don’t try to fit in or stand out – just be yourself.
I think people have a different image of me because, you know, they portray me with the idea that models are stupid and dumb; like, ‘She can just be a model because she can just be a model – she’s dumb and she can’t do anything else.’
Paul McCartney would be the end all, be all. To work with Paul would just be amazing.
Each part of our genome is unique. We would not be alive if there was not a single mathematical solution for our chromosomes. We would just be scrambled goo.
Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.
I’m not going to blurt out my whole life on the Internet and just be all crazy emotional. I’m not that type of person, but it’s in my music.
A wonderful acting teacher I love, Josh Pais, has a system I love for being in the moment in acting, but also in life. And one of the things he reminds me of is to take a moment and just be here now.
For the theatrical experience to survive, spectacle films need to expand their definition of what they can be. They need to be unique and true voices of the filmmakers behind them. They can’t just be copying what came before them.
My parents are doctors, both my sisters are doctors, so I figured I’d just be a doctor too. Sometime in my junior year, I had this sudden realization that maybe that wasn’t for me. I was sort of lost at sea.
I don’t want my life to just be about me.
I would tell filmmakers: ‘Don’t just be seduced by the same old, same old. There are interesting things you can explore that may get your film out there to audiences better than the traditional distribution mechanisms.’
Even if we did achieve what we wanted with a very small state, we’d just be resetting the clock back to 1776, and it would roll forward exactly the same way again.
I used to want to look like every European person that was being held up as a standard of beauty, whether in the industry or in life. Then I just realized that it’s not in my genetic make-up. I decided instead to go for the gold in whatever I’m doing and just be as healthy as I can be.
I think a big part of feminism – and this is something I’m sure a bunch of women will take my head off for – but a big part of feminism is women allowing other women to just be the kind of women that they are.
I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know – especially young people, but really everyone – that you don’t have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don’t have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.
I love working with kids and I want to just be able to do it from my heart and not as a job.
Nobody loves me as much as I love me, so I guess I’ll just be my own valentine.
It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.
If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.
People predicted in the 1910s that live theater was going to be all gone and that we’d just be watching movies. No, live theater is still around, because it does things that are specific to it.
Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
Surrender to life itself and you’ll just be rewarded with so many things. And I’ve been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.
Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.
My thing is to get up there and have a good time and give the fans all you can and appreciate them spending their money and being in the stands – and just be appreciative of them cheering when you come onstage.
If you’re advertising on Facebook, the work you’re doing should be made better by being on Facebook. You can’t just be repurposing old TV commercials and hoping to get traction; that’s very primitive. The question, always, is, ‘How is this idea made better by this medium?’
Nowadays midfielders definitely have to be complete players – you can’t just be a destroyer, you have to build play too.
When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But now everyone wants something from me, so it’s hard to break away and just be a songwriter.
I always thought when I left medicine it would just be a one-year timeout and I’d go back, but that’s now turned into many more.
When you come to America, it’s a very serious thing. It’s not like you arrive and they say, ‘Hey, come on! Do movies!’ I can’t just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don’t, I could lose it like that.
Stand up comedy is this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can’t just be like, ‘Alright, I got my hour down, people are coming to see me now. Now, I’m going to lean on the mike stand.’ No, you gotta work even harder now. You got to top what you already did. Because they’ll find someone else.
A lot of times I think the cast members, the lead characters in a show really set the tone for the show. On some shows, the stars of the show will just be whining and complaining and spending the whole time texting their boyfriends on their Blackberries, and there’s just no attention given to the work.
I think that sometimes we put undue pressure on stories featuring people of color, and I hope we get to a point where it’s not such a rarity to see a person of color be the hero of a story, so that it can just be a story and not have to carry so much weight.
It shouldn’t just be Russia we’re concerned about, because many countries that are not our friends have been hacking into American accounts across the board.
Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that’s wonderful. But if the acting doesn’t work, fine. I’ll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn’t work, fine. I’ve got a lot of other stuff.
I always found that the more extreme and the more eccentric I was, that’s what would separate me. I always felt that I needed that separation; otherwise, I’d just be like everybody else.
I don’t want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.
If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.
It’s okay to be fat. So you’re fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.
Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don’t have to be doing it professionally. It’s not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don’t have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.
When you have been stuck in that heel, bad-guy role as the foreigner who never talks, you want to get out of there, have fun, and just be you.
I want to have my own kids, I want to raise them and just be a happy grandma.
To me, it feels like ‘The Doctor’ has to have a long coat, and that’s something imprinted on me from childhood, because he always did. And there’s something heroic in a flapping coat, but at the same time, I need to get rid of it sometimes and just be a scrawny guy in a suit that doesn’t quite fit.
With stand-up you can just be yourself on stage. And ideally, you can’t see the crowd most of the time – it’s just lights in your face. But I still have had terrible stage fright.
I had such a broad array of classes, in improvising, in clowning, in Shakespeare. It was so great to just be inundated with all that.
But here’s the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, ‘This isn’t the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don’t feel happy.’
I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don’t think my fans need to be bothered with if I’m mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I’m making them happy with my show.
We all hate on ourselves way too much, and there are so many people who think they have to look like those women on TV. That’s so unreasonable. Everybody is supposed to be a different size. And if I can just be confident in myself, then I’ll look better. It’s quantum physics!
I just be wanting my fans to like, feel like I’m bringing them something nobody bringing them.
