You can’t halfway disrespect me ever in my life and think we are going to be OK later.
I couldn’t knock on people’s door; if they answered the door and said, ‘I don’t want to speak to you,’ I’d be like, ‘Oh, OK then – I wouldn’t either, to be honest.’
As we all know, when you’re an athlete things are a little bit easier for you. It didn’t mean that what was going on inside my heart wasn’t a bit of a thunderstorm, but outwardly I got along ok. I was really shy in seventh grade.
Real art has been… what’s the word? Kidnapped? No, that’s not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.
Understand that life is journey. I haven’t achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that’s OK – it’s coming.
Selectors can’t please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It’s an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn’t contradict it as a necessary sense of things.
Basically, the start of my thinking process is: ‘OK, if you didn’t have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?’ That’s kind of how I’m starting to think.
‘Twilight’ has been a great opportunity, and it’s been great fun. Hey, if I’m 50, and someone still wants an autograph for ‘Twilight,’ OK, cool.
I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn’t change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.
Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.
I’ve never really felt like a veteran. I’ve never felt like the guy who’s like, ‘OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.’ I’ve always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That’s all I want.
Most large companies structure their affairs so that they minimize their tax payments. As long as you do it within the law, it’s OK.
Abortion is either OK or it’s not.
For me, my films are not like my children. They are like my ex-wife. They gave me so much; I gave them so much; I loved them so much; we part ways, and it’s OK, we part ways.
I’m John McEnroe-like. I’m coming forward every opportunity I get. My wingspan covers some ground at the net. My serve is OK. I can move it around enough. My groundstrokes are good enough to hang in a rally with a good player. But generally, my goal is to put away a point quickly.
If he’d just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I’d have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.
I do feel I have a hard time dealing with things being OK.
I genuinely love Oasis, and I also genuinely love Beyonce. My body gets the same pleasure. If you like different types of music, it’s OK to say it.
Generally, the view that I’ve had on Twitter is if you’re on Twitter, you’re in, like, the meme – you’re in meme war land. If you’re on Twitter, you’re in the arena. And so, essentially, if you attack me, it is therefore OK for me to attack back.
I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it’s OK to have all the sadness.
If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it’s OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.
I’ve come to terms with the fact that if you’re on TV, lots of people like you and lots of people hate you, and once you’re OK with that, you apply it to everything.
I love acting. It’s a lot of fun work, interesting work, and you get to work with some very interesting people. But I seemed to be OK walking away from it for a little while and then coming back to it.
The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can’t just tell them, ‘Ok, be sad now.’
I don’t take on projects that are a hassle or when someone comes in and says, ‘We really need this design,’ and I’m like, ‘OK, fine, I’ll do it.’ It really has to be something that I personally feel intrigued and excited about – any product, as long as I’m excited by it. It doesn’t have to be a car.
So I want to make money. I think it’s an OK goal to have. I always felt like I can’t ask for that. But why not?
I’m finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.
So, it’s like: I’m an OK singer; I’m an OK guitar player and you put them together and… it’s just OK.
I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, ‘I gave it everything I had,’ it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.
There’ve been moments where I just was tired of being in L.A. It was very difficult. I mean, you’re constantly rejected. And that’s OK, it’s just really frustrating for me, because I try to read scripts and projects that have really great, deeper, meaningful qualities to them.
I think what I’m most proud of about myself away from the pool, is being OK on my own.
I look back at Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, and especially Betty Carter, whom I admire the most, and I say, OK, they set a standard of excellence. I listen to them not for what they are doing, but to study where they are coming from because, for me, jazz is life experience.
I think the reason these readers come back to me is because I represent their points of view. It may not be my point of view, but that’s OK. Everyone still deserves to have their say.
I personally am not so obsessed about immortality for myself. The human body has been designed that way, obsolescence is OK.
OK, I’ve made a preposterous amount of money. But I was born with the attributes needed to do it.
It is not OK for anyone to be obese. There needs to be a cultural shift.
I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it’s like, ‘OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I’m doing.’
I go into any movie that’s historical fiction thinking, ‘OK, I’m here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it’s a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won’t even be bothered by the opinions. I’ll make my own mind up.’
Falling in love is awesome, but I’m never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you’re happily in love, it’s like, ‘OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.’
It’s never OK to lose a game.
There are perennial stories like ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and those sorts of things, which have been around since almost as long as film, and ‘Frankenstein’ is another one. They’re perennial favorites, which get remade every 20 years, and that’s OK.
I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends’s houses with a list of demands. ‘OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job.’
If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.
It’s like that Simpsons joke – they’re filming a cow in a movie and they go, ‘OK, we’ll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow’, and it’s like, ‘Why don’t you just use a cow?’. For some reason that is novel – like, ‘Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar’.
If somebody comes along and says, ‘OK, Benny Hinn, I’m gonna help you financially so you can pay your own bills,’ or if I can do it on my own and get a job and do something on the side like I’m doing now, it would be a pleasure.
It’s ok to show all your colors.
If people are talking about your movie and they’re like, ‘Yeah, it was ok’ – that’s the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, ‘Oh, I hated it!’ or ‘I loved it!’ rather than ‘Oh, it’s ok.’
It’s OK to turn down stuff that isn’t really interesting and spend the summer with my family.
If I have a bad hair day, I just think, ‘Well, it will be an OK hair day tomorrow. Just put your head down and go.’
My friend had told me about ‘Stranger Things’ and how I had to watch it. I was like, ‘OK, I will!’ I binged it in, like, a day and was like, ‘Oh my gosh, Mom, you need to watch this show. Everyone needs to watch this.’ A week later, I got the breakdown for Max. A month later, I got the part.
Who you are as a person is more special than trying to be someone you’re not. Don’t get me wrong – I have bad days, everyone does, but I know if I’m feeling insecure today, I’ll move on tomorrow. I’d tell girls to realise it’s OK to have bad days to get to the good ones.
I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life. You get into your 40s, and you feel like, ‘OK, no more pretending.’ You get to just be who you are.
OK, so what’s the speed of dark?
Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.
It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it’s OK.
