Acting happened to me. If I had pursued it, I think it would have been like someone going to a bar, desperately looking for love and not finding anyone.
So much luck! I’m not putting myself down, I’m not saying I don’t have talent – I must have, to have got this far – but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.
Roblox is all about having great user-created content. It really ups the bar in the quality of the game.
Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you’re an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sing your own song. I like to get up there and sing stuff that I would never sing on stage anywhere else. Like Neil Diamond.
I remember when our first album came out. After one of our gigs, we went across the border to Mexico and the band in the bar where we were was doing covers of our songs. I don’t think they understood a word they were singing but they did the songs perfectly.
There’s always a little fear anytime you’re doing something crazy because at any moment you can break a leg, land on your neck, or peel off the bar. Over the years, we’ve fallen so many times that we’ve kind of learned how to fall safely. Still, there is always a risk.
What keeps me up is always raising the bar, and what makes my team happiest and also most worrisome is I’m always asking for more.
After having babies, I went off most desserts and chocolates. I could never resist a Wispa or a Flake. I can’t finish a bar now.
When I write, I like squeezing as many words as possible into each bar – I’ve listened to the Fugees and Lauryn Hill for as long as I can remember, so probably a big chunk of it subconsciously comes from that.
Most people who get into the business are social animals by nature, but do they have the financial abilities to manage a business? A great bar owner has both.
If you’re the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.
I knew that I had to train with intensity and focus, but I never thought about the weight on the bar.
You can’t just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.
The bar was very high-we had to really make sure that we got what we really wanted, that it was a real finished album. We weren’t going to give up until we got that.
I think that, back in the day, there used to be a lot of horror films that kind of had a checklist of what went into making the ‘perfect horror film’, and I think now people are raising the bar in the industry, as far as the types of horror films that are being made.
Bar none, hands down, no matter what division I’m in, I am one of the best fighters in the world.
Personally, I would miss a wedding. I would miss childbirth. I would miss a bar mitzvah just to see me talk at all.
In Iran, education is not a given at all. For decades, in fact, the Iranian government has been systematically depriving members of the Baha’i faith their right to higher education, attempting to bar their advancement and marginalize them in Iranian society.
When you go into a bar, there are hundreds and hundreds of cameras in that bar – many of them installed by that bar. They might be checking something or taking a picture of you.
I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline.
I think, with every kid I coach, I’m trying to get them to do the right thing all the time. I always feel like you should raise the bar. There needs to be expectations.
You always have to keep setting the bar for yourself.
Kneeling on the sea bottom in a place known as Tiger Beach, I watched a 12-foot- long female tiger shark cruise over the turtle grass with three silver bar jacks swimming in front of her nose.
High jump is such a mental thing. It’s you against the bar. It’s something that a lot of people struggle with, and people experience slumps and plateaus because of it.
Let me tell you who I am: I’m a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act.
I read tons of books, listen to music non-stop, watch as many movies as possible, catch a play when I can, art shows, concerts, bar talks – I just try to engage in art, which to me is everywhere, as often as I can because narrative lives in it all.
If you’re middle aged… where’re you going to go to meet someone? You’re not going to go to a bar, you’re not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.
I won’t lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat.
Al Qaeda asks its recruits to establish their bona fides as a condition of membership, even requiring answers to a long questionnaire. But ISIS has democratized and globalized jihad by lowering the entry bar to an eve-of-destruction YouTube pledge of allegiance to the caliphate – and even that could probably be waived.
When I’m training for a car deadlift, sometimes I’ll stand on some mats to make the bar lower.
I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn’t talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.
I read some older books when I worked at Barnes And Noble, like some of the American classics. I read a lot of Hemingway. I fell in love with Hemingway’s prose and with the way he wrote. I feel like he’s talking to me, like we’re in a bar and he’s not trying to jazz it up and sound smart, he’s just being him.
Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, ‘In The Morning I’ll Be Gone,’ in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican’s daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered.
There are things I’m never late for. I’m not late for the theater; I’m not late for the movies; I’m not late if my single girlfriend is at a bar somewhere. But if I’m on vacation in Mexico with a bunch of cackling hens, then I’m going to be late for dinner – count on it.
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
For me, the main thing is that I continually improve my game and make sure I keep setting the bar high.
In 1991, if someone came in with a $1 million budget for a boutique, I would have fainted. Nobody spent even half that. But now, the bar has risen very high.
I’m too short to host a late-night talk show. It’s like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.
My favorite candy bar is a PayDay.
I first did standup at a lesbian bar. I didn’t know it was a lesbian bar at the time, but the lesbians loved me. I was huge among the lesbians and am to this day. I’m thrilled with the lesbian support.
I was a bouncer, if you can believe it for a while in a sports bar. I let everybody in.
Don’t eat the bar nuts.
I’ve really been enjoying The Bar Method because I’m not a sweaty mess when we get to my favorite part of class – the end.
‘Fruitvale’ set the bar for what I wanted to do with my career, which was to make films that had consciousness and messaging in an entertaining package. Once I hit that mark, I never wanted to go back.
None of our bars smell like a bar at all – that’s our number one rule – and we use certain scented candles and certain types of incense in order to give our bars a specific feel and ambiance.
That’s a hobby of mine – to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me – obviously I’m often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer!
All these cities I go to, I never see them. They may be the most beautiful places in the world, but I’ll just usually go to the nearest bar. I need a couple of hours by myself.
In Hollywood you can’t even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they’re always showing people smoking. I don’t get it.
I’ve considered myself a writer since I was 7 years old, but I’ve done a lot of jobs along the way. I enjoyed waiting tables and tending bar during college, especially when it got busy, so I might like managing a big restaurant. In fact, I might like managing many kinds of businesses or organizations.
When the opportunity presented itself, I had never been bar mitzvahed. I wasn’t going to pass it up.
We might have, with Hockey Canada, an Aero Bar, a chocolate bar. ‘Okay we’re going to play for this chocolate bar.’ Here you have guys who made millions of dollars, they’re professional athletes, and they will fight tooth and nail to win. It’s not necessarily for the chocolate bar. It’s the competitive spirit.
I was bar mitzvahed at Beth Shalom, and I had trouble. I didn’t quite get it all.
I’m weird. I’m not too focused on the physicality of a man. They just have to become my best friend, and then I start to get attracted to them. I’ve never been in a bar and just hit on a guy and started kissing him; I’ve never done that in my life.
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
