When you’re stretching yourself, as a role like ‘Blue Jasmine’ did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.
I love making music and I’m falling in love with making records, so it’s like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.
When I was young, I couldn’t imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they weren’t out in the jungle, searching for romance. Besides, these women just looked so ancient – permed hair, beige cardis.
Life throws surprises, sorrows, sadness, and hardship, and I think that writing has actually grounded me. It kept me grounded when everything else was falling apart.
There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.
When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.
I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?
The fact that Australia is falling so far behind on something so simple as equal love and equal rights for equal love is disgusting, it’s embarrassing.
North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim’s ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man’s offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
How could anybody possibly have a problem with two people falling in love and finding happiness together?
One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
I love people that, in the face of falling off a cliff, still want to fight about something that happened five minutes ago, going, ‘Now, you know I’m right about that,’ even though they’re facing imminent doom.
I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with… collars, neck collars.
You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.
After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches – thoroughbred layup farms, actually – out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasn’t far enough.
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.
Falling down doesn’t matter, even if you do it a hundred times. All that matters is that you get up again.
When I’m trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
The entertainment industry is always targeted at young people. Understandably so, as they are the key consumers. The young are the ones who are falling in love, starting out in life; older people aren’t. Nobody thinks, ‘Now I’m going to write a film about an older person.’
I wanted to write a book about two women falling in love that wasn’t hinged on tragedy or that involved some horrible identity-based misfortune. I wanted to write a pretty standard romantic comedy where nobody dies, nobody gets hurt, nobody gets sick.
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
I think I may be the most well-adjusted person you’d ever meet who thinks constantly about falling out of her life. And my life is pretty great! It’s not like I don’t know that.
Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
It’s hard to think of another body of work that is more universally beloved – I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who has encountered ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ without falling for them.
I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it’s the thing that makes me laugh the most.
There’s some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don’t quite know what is going to happen next.
I know the fans are going to end up falling in love with me and how I play the game.
The nurses’ job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withering and falling to pieces. So black humour is essential for them cope with that. It’s just a consequence of their environment.
Century-old records are the closest thing we have to a time machine. To listen to the voice of Theodore Roosevelt or the piano playing of Claude Debussy is to feel the years falling away like autumn leaves from a maple tree.
Too many people don’t do things for fear of falling. You’ll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.
Love, like poems, knows no boundaries. Religions, race, distance not even age can restrict someone from falling in love.
I’m a firm believer in love and falling in love.
Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.
I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn’t happen prematurely.
Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That’s why you need a strong line of communication… which includes laughter.
I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.
I’ve certainly auditioned for big budget studio films. I don’t know if it’s because there’s so much money involved, but a lot of times the pressure overwhelms me and engulfs me. I end up falling apart in the audition.
The weight really started falling off, and I could see my muscles. It was awesome.
One of the big mysteries about the black hole at the center of the galaxy is, ‘Why don’t we see emission from matter falling onto the black hole, or, rather, the black hole eating up its surroundings?’
As an entrepreneur, I’ve learned how crucial it is to be able to call a spade a spade and avoid falling in love with a particular strategy or product. Instead, you need to let the customer tell you what she needs – and to change her as she changes.
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
I love zombies. I don’t know how else to answer that… I have trouble falling asleep, so there are certain scenarios I use in my head to relax. I find sniping zombies very relaxing.
My favourite vampires are all very scary indeed. So the idea of falling in love with one is just weird to me.
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.
I damaged my legs and ankles many years ago when doing concerts and falling off stage.
I still get scared every time I go out. I get scared taking off; I get scared on the wave, falling, everything. But, you know, growing up with it, I guess you’re a little more comfortable.
‘Restoring’ is a very arrogant concept. If you’re taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.
Kids who don’t play are not just at greater risk of falling behind academically, but also of becoming overweight or obese, failing to integrate socially, and even engaging in criminal activity.
When Stephen was first diagnosed, we weren’t actually going out together, but I was already falling in love with him. He had beautiful eyes and this amazing sense of humour, so we were always laughing.
When a male stunt performer falls down a flight of stairs, he has a lot of clothes on and can wear all this padding. But because actresses never have a lot of clothes on – they are always falling in their underwear – you can’t wear any padding whatsoever.
Falling asleep is like landing a plane. It takes time. You’ve got to sort of gradually descend. I think one of the problems with insufficient sleep is people are not very good at predicting how poorly they are doing when they are under-slept.
Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it’s almost disgusting to fall in love.
The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it – they’re the ones falling down the most.
People understand about family; people understand about being in situations where you have to be brave. People get falling in love.
