Some of my friends wanted to do different things, but all I ever wanted to do was play outside with a ball.
As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.
What they call ‘alt-comedy’ now is basically what comedy was like in the ’80s. People tried different things, and everybody went to the clubs; there was no other place. Then somehow, the clubs became infiltrated by Dice Clay and Carrot Top types.
Ooh, I’d love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something… I don’t know!
If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I’d want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.
If you asked somebody, ‘what do you wish for in life?’ they wouldn’t say ‘happiness.’ I would have answered ‘excitement, knowledge,’ God knows – I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not ‘happiness’. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.
We didn’t say, ‘Hey, we’re gonna pick a bunch of cover songs,’ or, ‘We’re gonna write an original song that has to sound like this, because we’re a metal band, so we’re gonna cover some metal songs.’ We did the opposite. We just said, ‘We’re gonna have fun with these songs, and we’re gonna try different things.’
It’s a blessing to be able to do different things really, I feel so lucky.
People always say ‘You do racial comedy.’ And I don’t, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things. There’s black people from America and then there’s black people from Africa. Racially, they’re the same; culturally, they’re extremely different.
I was diagnosed with ADD when I was 14. Weirdly enough, I then learnt, through doing different things, to concentrate.
I’m interested in many different things. I guess I just want to evolve.
Anyone who’s been in the WWE for an extended period of time has to be able to do different things. Eventually, a character gimmick is going to get old and stale. And, when it does, if that’s all you can do, you’re done.
Identity is made up of lots of different things now. Different colors and patterns stand out at different times. Different instruments in the symphony of being are more distinct than others at different times.
I’ve been so lucky to do different things. The world in which ‘Westworld’ takes place is so unique and bizarre, and it’s really interesting to explore that whole universe with the language and brutality going on there. With ‘Inferno,’ there’s the Dan Brown mystery.
Doing the same thing day in, day out. It’s just so boring. I like to jump from different things.
I’ve always had the same principle for choosing roles, which is to try and make movies that I would pay to see. As I get older, that’s meant different things.
I’ve been in the government bureaucracy, I’ve practiced law, I’ve done a lot of different things.
I just have certain interests in different things, and they inspire me to write. I would encourage aspiring artists or MCs or rappers to be able to grab from many different sources to create your story.
It’s a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it’s man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they’re two different things.
I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn’t anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn’t. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren’t.
It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren’t trying to be yourself, so it’s escapism in a way.
I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things – the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
I’m constantly trying to grow as a musician, so when I listen to different things, I’m like, ‘That’d be cool to do something like that,’ and I try to keep myself open-minded.
My goal is to get better every year and statistically that has happened in a lot of different things.
Since I’ve left ‘Blue Peter’ I’ve presented all sorts of different things. I’ve done a music show, for instance, and ‘Blue Peter’ had music on it. I’ve done a politics show, but on ‘Blue Peter’ I interviewed the Prime Minister. I’ve done travel stuff where I’ve gone abroad, but ‘Blue Peter’ had that within it as well.
People have challenged me all my life, told me I wasn’t fast enough, wasn’t smart enough, but you know what? No one’s ever outworked me. My definition of tired and most people’s definition of tired are two totally different things.
Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
My search for ways to improve my touch has never ended. We players tried a lot of different things and compared notes. Little fads would set in.
Theatre was an art form that I didn’t really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I’d learnt through writing on my own.
I am always up for new and different things, regardless of the medium.
When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there’s so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time – World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound.
I was 19 when I wrote ‘Dreams,’ and that would have been when it started to happen. The band got signed, and I was probably beginning to see different things besides my small town of Ballybricken.
I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It’s a kind of discipline.
I’ve really gotten to play a lot of different things, starting with ‘Southpaw.’ For ‘Spotlight,’ I got to play this amazing journalist, Sacha Pfeiffer, who worked at the ‘Boston Globe’ when they broke the story about the sex scandal in the Catholic Church.
I usually have a couple of projects going on that are different. A ‘Sin City’ while I’m doing a ‘Spy Kids’ at the same time. I need different things going on.
I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form, is the foundation of the Byrds. We were all from a folk background. We considered ourselves folk singers even when we strapped on electric instruments and dabbled in different things.
There’s just some times when you need a change and you need to do different things.
I think when I do things outside of music, I am always thinking of different things that are eventually one way or another going to come back to my music. I have to make sure it is all cohesive, as that’s important to me as an artist and a person.
In a play, the director is God, and I’m a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
Sometimes you try different things when you play the best ones many times and you lost a few times, so you have to change sometimes.
One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions – to a different content – but in in my case it is all one.
You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It’s not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.
Respect and fear are two different things.
Different things made ‘Cheers’ and ‘Frasier’ special. Both of them, though, were honest. It was the old Shakespeare thing: Hold the mirror up to life.
I’m interested in a lot of different things, but first and foremost I’m into the idea of human consciousness, and Angels & Airwaves is a byproduct of that.
Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.
One of the cool things about traveling and being a musician is that you meet so many people who have studied different things and have different careers.
Kids have got such active imaginations and they’re scared of so many different things.
Being that I went to jail and came back, I went through a whole new experience in life. I went from being at the top to back down at the bottom again. In jail, you get stripped of your freedom and everything, so I experienced different things, learned more.
You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
Girls on the Run is an organization that believes every girl can embrace who she is. It’s all about girl empowerment. I’ve volunteered for different things before, but I didn’t get to work hands-on. I thought this program sounded wonderful because I could go in and work with girls face-to-face.
