Have you ever heard the expression ‘one hot mess?’ I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.
I’m a hot mess when it comes to any physical activity. My body just pours sweat. Not a lot of people know, but I always have my trusty inhaler with me. When I start to have even a little bit of an asthma attack, I just start dripping sweat. It’s my body’s emergency system.
I do have bad hair days. If I fall asleep with it slightly damp, I wake up and it’ll all be piled up on top in a mess.
The best working experiences I’ve had are with directors who want to create with you while you’re on set. I prefer a much freer environment. That’s why I’m always trying to mess things up, just to know that I can!
I’ve always said that with kids’ TV that people get stuck in it from drama school but that’s not fair because I know myself that when you go in creatively, kids are so much more open to ideas. You’re so much freer to mess about and try things.
That’s the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America.
You have so much more time to observe and learn with a documentary because of the time between the shoots. You get a much deeper understanding of day-to-day life and its themes. It’s also much more of a mess after three years; you have to comb it out carefully and see what fits together and makes sense.
There is a mammalian side to all of us; on occasion, it rears its head, snarls, makes a mess, acts the fool, howls at the moon, gives or gets a black eye.
I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I’ve observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be completely focused on restoring the situation.
Confidence comes in going on personal journeys in a public arena and feeling as though you have a right to do that. You have to give yourself permission to discover what you need to discover and not worry about how pretty the journey is. If you’re aware of the pretty, you’re not going to dig into the mess.
My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one’s fault. It was just how it was.
The day you don’t mess with somebody, that would be exclusive rather than inclusive. I strive to be inclusive.
Don’t use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and don’t worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse.
Never mess with other people’s kids. You will never win. It’s the child’s word against yours and they have parental reinforcements as back-up. You just can’t triumph.
The world is a mess. It seems that life gets harder on a personal level each and every day. Hug and kiss those you love every day. You never know when the tragedies of this world may visit your life.
You gonna ask me who I compare myself to? Nobody. I don’t think nobody can really mess with me as far as flyness or anything that I’m doing.
The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.
You can’t buy back your respect; you can’t buy back your career. You only get one, so I don’t want to mess that up.
I love the whole mess of family life. I love having the focus elsewhere and worrying about the kids as opposed to myself. I love both the chaos and the structure that family brings.
I’m totally an anxious mess all the time. There’s a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it’s just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I’m not doing good enough.
When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don’t want to mess with that.
We don’t mess with squads. Our friend group is not, like, a strategic thing. There’s no strategy to our friendships. There’s no strategy to the circle of girls. Everyone’s, like, bound together for different things.
I get into a zone, so if I start my day healthy, I’m going to eat clean all day. But if I start my day with an egg sandwich, you can bet I’m gonna mess it all up.
Ultimately, I’m a mess. I don’t mean I’m a mess, like, emotionally – I mean, I think probably everybody’s a mess. David’s a mess. But. I’m talking about… I’m messy.
Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.
I don’t know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, ‘No, none of that!’
The main thing going through my head when I step out onto any show is: ‘Don’t mess it up, Emma, don’t mess it up.’
But Sunday is our cleaning day: we give ourselves only one and a half hours and we clean everywhere. We do that together because we made the mess together. I refuse to get a cleaner, although I’d love one, because I don’t want to teach my kids that we make a mess and then we pay someone else to clean it.
As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.
I’m not reading what I write when I wrote. It’s an unconscious outpouring that’s a mess, and it’s many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find ’em, kill ’em.
Politicians – in both political parties – spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.
I believe that I can do more for women by being the best at what I do in the role that I have than going out and just talking about how women are awesome and you shouldn’t mess with them.
I’m thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don’t mess it up.
Doing interviews can sometimes mess up my head. It makes me feel dirty. It’s frustrating how the press recycles a quote to death.
In your life, where are you not making mistakes? Sometimes if there’s no mess, there’s no change happening.
Really, I just sit down, mess around, and play with sounds.
Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It’s the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It’s that important, so don’t mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.
With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that’s when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.
Two guys, one girl, and the mess they can create amongst themselves may be the oldest story in the book, but it can quite easily be refreshed given the right story and treatment.
The only place that the left hasn’t placed the blame is on their agenda, so some advice for our friends on that side of the aisle: that’s where you’ve gotta look because that’s what got you into this mess.
I’ve always tried to bring in the competitive nature: ‘Don’t mess with me, I won’t mess with you.’ Let’s race our hearts out.
I think that Peter Mandelson, particularly in relation to the issue of policing, made a huge mess of it. He allowed himself to be manipulated by the securocrats within the British establishment.
I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.
I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.
My generation has left the globe in a mess.
I’ve often said that the ISIS-Syria-Iraq mess is about as bad as it could be.
It’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.
We need music that makes complete sense to us, and that’s how ‘Mess’ came about.
I don’t have dairy because I’m a singer and, quite frankly, I don’t want to mess around with my vocal chords and how those behave, and dairy is an allergen for me.
I’m somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I’ve made a mess of really simple things.
Hair is an issue for most women, and after washing, blow-drying, flat-ironing, curling, braiding, twisting and spending the time and money on it, who wants to mess it up by sweating and having to do it all over again?
I’m not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.
On my season of ‘Survivor,’ the tribes were split: a tribe of men versus a tribe of women. Even though the women kicked the men’s butts at the first two challenges, we were a hot mess at camp.
We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd.
