I didn’t want to just be a rapper, I wanted to be a star.
A connection should be natural. Just be yourself, and you will find someone who likes you for exactly what you are.
When DVD disappeared but before digital distribution came on strong, there were a few years where a movie that didn’t get theatrical would just be gone.
There’s so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
I am very concerned about anything that says ‘revenue’ because let’s just be honest; revenue for Democrats has become code for tax increases.
The fact that women represent such a small portion of the tech workforce shouldn’t just be a wake-up call – it should be a Sputnik moment. The tech industry is not America’s future; it is our present.
My own personal goal is I just hope to still write songs and kind of let that sustain me as a job. If I could never have a 9-to-5 job, and making a living doing this, it’d just be incredible.
It’s social progress to just be you.
I always knew what I had, and I knew I was more than just ‘the foreign guy.’ I have personality, and as soon as I had chance to show it, I just did it. A lot of people don’t like it, and a lot of people frown upon it and think I should just be stuck in that box, but it’s just not me.
My plan is to have no plan. If you know what plan you have, life has its own ideas and will take you in any direction it pleases. So my idea about life is to just be open to it and to go with the flow and go with my gut.
If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn’t think you could do.
I try to tell all the – not even the kids, even people older than me – to just be themselves. Don’t wear what I wear ’cause I wear it; wear what you like.
I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you’ll never have a problem. That’s what I did.
I don’t like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.
If I feel like you’ve disrespected me, you might as well just be dead to me.
There’s so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we’re going to get through it. Just be strong.
I’m quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read and just get away and surf. I have a lot of alone time.
I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it’s kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking… my stomach would just be in knots.
What I don’t like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there’s no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don’t want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here’s the epiphany scene and then the movie’s over.
I’d want to direct a video for Yoko Ono. As long as I got to work with Yoko Ono someday, I’d be really happy. I just think she’s such a great artist – it would just be so nice.
I’m glad I’m a comedian. Otherwise, my life would just be a series of undocumented low points.
I don’t think it pays to just be an artist, particularly for kids of color – there will be fewer roles.
I can work a lot faster when I’m writing a screenplay than when I’m writing a play because, if I’m having a problem with a scene or something, I can just be writing it in a way where there’s no dialogue, or find a way to make sound do the work that I want to do or a close-up do the work that I need to do.
You can’t just be the same character forever. You’ve got to add some layers, show some personality.
That’s the whole point is just to bring people together in a really positive way and laugh together and cry together and just be connected through a simple thing of a few chords.
I want someone who can make me laugh and just be normal and understand my lifestyle and how I wanna live it.
I’m not in good enough shape to be Batman. I’ll just be Bruce Wayne.
A part of me was like, ‘Man, do I even like doing this anymore?’ That whole thing of ‘I’m in my 30s, and I sing and write songs while people are fighting wars in Iraq.’ You know? So everything had to have more meaning, and it couldn’t just be about making money. So, I took a minute.
I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I’m not happy, and it comes out musically.
Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
There’s constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just be that British hip-hop will always be as it is: an underground thing which will stay that way.
I felt this pressure to just be the singer in my family or the musician in my family. But once I had my son, I was like, ‘No, I can do all of it.’
Some stuff I don’t even put out. I’ll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, and then ball it up and throw it in the trash. It’s less about trying to prove something or get on somebody’s list or make a fan happy or make a hater mad or convert a non-believer. That’s not the case for me anymore.
I obviously want to give a healthy body image to my own daughter. I think having good examples, eating properly, that’s all one can do – and just be really loving around her. I’ve tried to give her confidence in who she is. I think she’s all right in the confidence department.
When I was, like, 4 or 5, I’d just always tell – my mom would ask me what I wanted to be when I got older. And I would just be like, ‘I wanna be Kobe.’ She’d be like, ‘You wanna be in the NBA?’ ‘No, like, I wanna be Kobe.’
I don’t really have a career plan. There’s no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that’s so much of what’s out there.
The biggest misconception in the hip-hop industry is that people are only focused on the money. We should just be happy for everybody that is working in the hip-hop culture.
The best piece of advice I’ve ever been given was, ‘Be in the business you’re in.’ Don’t just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business you’re in.
People are always quick to judge SPW because of the fact that I wear heels. For me, I just have no choice. This is just how I feel beautiful and how I feel awesome. I would just be so uncomfortable onstage if I was wearing something else.
It’s funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
Everyone should just be kind to one another.
Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.
I enjoy directing more when I don’t have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
There were guys in ‘The State’ who would take one script and rewrite it and rewrite it and rewrite it and fight for it for a whole season, and after a couple of seasons, you realized that doesn’t work. You have to just be willing to throw something away, no matter how good it is, and write a better joke.
To a lot of people, I might just be the guy who went No. 1 in the draft. Or the guy who lost his job to Colin Kaepernick. Or the guy who helped turn a 2-14 Chiefs team into a back-to-back division champ… but then couldn’t put them over the top.
I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.
My experience of test screenings is that you don’t know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept what Joe Blo says – and this guy could just be a frustrated filmmaker, or not paying attention.
A song just doesn’t have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love songs that you have to learn one melody for a three-minute thing, and nothing ever repeats. I like that.
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.
I didn’t want to just be remembered for ‘War Horse.’
You can’t just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.
If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.
Recently, my dad has been teaching me a lot – like how to read a script. It used to just be about hockey or baseball or sports of whatever. We don’t have glitzy or glamour-y Hollywood-type talk, like, ‘Isn’t that person great?’ It’s more about the process of how it works.
All of the most important lessons about writing I learned from my father. He never set out to teach me anything, it would just be something he said casually in conversation.
You don’t have to be the next Einstein. You can just be you, and that’s more than good enough.
I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You’d just be ripping them off.
Eat what you want to eat, but just be willing to pay the price. If you know you want to eat more cake or more cookies, be willing to work out a lil bit more. I think that’s the problem people have is you want to eat bad, but yet you don’t want to pay the price to work it off.
