When I got the script for ‘The Art of Seduction,’ I realised I’d never been in a comedy, so I decided to experiment. What the character went through could never happen in my own life.
I grew up in a small town in Ireland and didn’t know any actors. I never thought it was a viable job. It wasn’t until I was on ‘The Tudors’ that I realised it was a possibility.
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
We can’t any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics – actually things which influence the genome’s function – are much more important than we realised.
I have realised I need to tone down and be easy at times. It is good to be competitive and have a fighting spirit, but one should not go to extremes.
I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it’s been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact.
When I got to know about techniques, I realised there’s a lot more to dancing than Bollywood. Till then, I had thought choreography simply meant doing your own steps.
I’ve realised what my strengths are and what my strengths are not, and played accordingly.
I was told I could play at the top long before I realised I could. A few people told me that. I’ve always had a ‘name,’ and I don’t know how I got it, but I was blessed with people in the right situations saying good things about me.
Without industry, finance and government consciously and collaboratively ensuring that capital flows to where it is needed in order to ensure the scaling up of climate change solutions, whatever deal is agreed risks never being realised.
I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.
Ive been wanting to play Macbeth for quite a long time but then I just realised nobody is going to offer me the role so I have to generate it myself.
In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of ‘The Birthday Party’ at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.
There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It’s electric. But I don’t think I’m the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes.
My parents never really wanted me to be a musician at all, because in Peru you don’t earn any money that way. But when they realised it was genuinely what I wanted to do, they supported me always.
At first I didn’t take football too seriously and then I realised what I wanted to do. I was seeing players get moves; a good friend went from Ilkeston to Luton and that made me see what was possible.
I’ve realised that nothing that happens is so grim that life can’t go on. Life always goes on, no matter what. Even in the grimmest situation, I see hope.
The first 40-50 pages of ‘Veekai’ is what made it film-friendly. I realised the subject would be relevant even after 50 years.
Drama made me happy. Being on stage made me feel alive. But I did what a lot of people do, and that’s follow this path of leaving school and going to university. It was only at university that I realised the only thing that would make me a satisfied man was to do what I loved.
By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn’t write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I’d gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.
When I first started in telly, I had a lot of negative comments… but then I suddenly realised I couldn’t be anyone else and actually the bits where I mess up or I’m just me seem to be the things that work.
I realised when I was a striker that when I ended up wide on the left or right, it can be so much easier to get space and face defenders up.
I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn’t about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
I realised no one else was going to care about me so I started to be nice to myself.
I was almost on the verge of studying medicine. But then, I realised I would have to give up singing. That is when it dawned on me that I could have a career in music.
Then realising and being told that I wasn’t going to be able to race anymore, that was a whole different stage. It’s that old thing of you don’t know what you’ve got, right? Pretty quickly I realised how much I was going to miss doing what I do.
People may have found it difficult to approach me, and I realised it and have worked on it. I used to be socially shy. Now I have become a social animal. I go out, meet and interact with people.
I realised it was very important to show the fans that I’m a normal person.
I’ve realised how important having family is.
I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; ‘City of Bohane’ is a combination of the two. Bohane is a little kingdom. When I began writing it, I realised that it was in the future and that it was a place that didn’t care about anything that happened outside it.
For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition – photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.
When I started with ‘Fugly’, I was excited that I was playing a raw and edgy character in the film. After I nailed the audition, I realised that the role wasn’t something I was comfortable with.
During my engineering days, we were taken for an industrial visit. I realised that I can’t do a regular job.
When I sat down with all the songs before recording, I realised I’d written a few songs specifically about places in America – there was this song about Detroit and another about Yellowstone National Park. My dad is actually American, so I wrote another song about that side of my family.
The major gripe I heard was from people who made beautiful cards but couldn’t find envelopes to fit them. I realised that if I could provide a product that would make envelopes in any size and out of any paper, I could hit the jackpot.
I went through a brief phase years ago of getting Men’s Health then I realised there are actually only three ways to do a sit-up and they’re just repackaging it endlessly.
Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.
I’ve realised that there is no magic trick to television; it just comes down to hard work and being prepared for every appearance and trying to get your point across as clearly as possible.
More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.
I’ve often sat down with people talking about a film I’ve been in, and they haven’t realised I was in it.
One of the things I realised as I learned to manage a rehearsal room is that the best idea always has to win, and it doesn’t matter where the idea comes from.
When I was about 13 I realised girls weren’t going to kiss me because I was a gigantic, weird looking creature from the depths. I was like 6 ft. aged 11.
I have realised that life is never perfect.
I grew up thinking, ‘You go to university, you get your degree, you get a job, you get married and then you have a family.’ But when I got to the point in my life where I had all those things, and was looking to start a family, I was miserable. I realised I didn’t want kids.
I realised at 13 or 14 when I said, OK, I wanted to be professional racing driver, there wasn’t anyone to look up to that I could aspire to or get inspiration from. But that didn’t stop me.
I discovered at the age of five that I could sing, and I realised people liked it. The sound that came out made people happy, so I kept doing it.
I have seen lot of ups and downs in life; I have realised that nothing is permanent in life.
I didn’t enjoy studying for my A-levels, so didn’t really want to go to University to do something overly academic, and when I saw that Creative Writing was an option, I suddenly realised that it was something I could try to do.
Long ago, when I was in higher secondary school in Delhi, I read an essay by George Orwell in which he said there was a voice in his head that put into words everything he was seeing. I realised I did that, too, or maybe I started doing it in imitation.
I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
Hollywood has realised that we do have actors and are not just mad about song and dance.
