You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I’ve always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved.
It makes you not believe in anything, when you do every single thing you can do right, and then there’s still some way to mess it up.
Social media is amazing because it’s opened a platform for so many people to have a voice – but that voice can get inside your head, and it can really mess with you. The only way to avoid that is to have a strong sense of self. I can’t say that I have one, but I can tell you I’m working really hard on it.
People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it’s really a difficulty process; it’s heartbreaking and it hurts really bad. It can really mess with your head.
When I first started, I was much weaker of a singer because I wasn’t used to singing so much. Now I’ve learned, when I’m singing on stage, not to go over. You can go over and mess yourself up. I used to do it all the time, wouldn’t know how to preserve it for the next show.
That’s what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended.
You mess up as a dad, and you have your worst moments.
I’m used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don’t want to mess with it.
When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
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.
I don’t really practice ’cause I already know the songs. It’s kind of: if I do good, I do good, and if I mess up, I mess up.
We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.
Our nation’s tax code is a broken mess of rules and regulations. It rewards special interests, punishes success and holds back millions of Americans seeking better jobs, higher wages, and greater opportunities.
I always take pride in the fact that nobody can mess with me, and I never let anybody mess with me my entire life.
You don’t have a lot of women doing things for women, so when I’m rapping I gotta talk all this mess so the women can feel as confident and empowered as the men.
I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.
I got into the weights because I didn’t want anybody messing with me. I wanted people to say, ‘Oh, he’s so big, I don’t want to mess with him.’ And second of all, I wanted to be great at football. I wanted to be the baddest dude around because I knew what it was like to not be.
Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.
I don’t mind at all venturing off to do a television movie if it’s gonna give me something new to mess around in my mind, to turn around in.
I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school is a mess. I certainly wasn’t one for sitting in a classroom. Then I went off to college to North Carolina School of the Arts, then quit that after two years.
I’m obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don’t necessarily want the person you’re working with to try to impress you – you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they’ve come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
I made an awful mess of my first marriage. It was hard to live with me being me. I was so abnormal. I mean, most writers struggle. I hadn’t struggled. I couldn’t suddenly go down to the PEN Club and behave like a normal human being, because most of those guys were struggling to make a couple of thousand pounds a year.
People tell me I have to follow in the footsteps of my mom and grandfather, but it’s a lot of pressure. I can’t really slip up and mess up the name.
If you start worrying about your shooting percentages, you start not taking the shots you know you can make. You start worry about taking shots because you don’t want to mess up your percentage.
Some time ago, I learned how to say, ‘What’s the worst thing that could happen up there?’ I could mess up some words, I could sing flat… I could appear human. Is that really the worst thing in the world?
I’m certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.
We’re a mess in Minnesota.
There are lots of times when I’m a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I’m useless. I mean, I’m a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things.
I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they’re just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.
Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.
Men mess up. Women create this big illusion in their head that the man they’re going to be with is going to be perfect. Nobody’s going to be perfect, and people are going to let you down. The only thing that you can hope for is someone that’s going to be honest with you.
Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.
Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can’t I for once play that on stage?
There’s rarely a big hat. I think all those things are great, but I’m boring in that I just use sunscreen every day. I don’t mess around. I put it on first thing. I have it on now, and I’m sitting inside.
Excuse the mess but we live here.
In 1979, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird entered the league. I remember that. Soon after this, the story began to be repeated ad nauseam: the NBA, a tottering mess in the seventies, was saved in the eighties by these two.
In high school I would mess with my hair and makeup all the time.
Don’t mess with Sergio Marchionne.
You’ve just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you’re psyching yourself out, really.
I reserve the right to be a mess and completely unlikable.
There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, ‘What is going on?’ You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.
The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.
Washington’s a mess, but that’s not stopping me from getting bills to help Montana signed into law by President Trump.
And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they only have boys, and they have the same attitude toward women they always had, you know? And I don’t play that… My girls, you mess with them? I will bury you underground.
The Congress doesn’t have the leadership. What exactly is Rahul Gandhi doing is the question… sometimes he says something good, at times he makes a mess.
When I was declared bankrupt it felt like I was in a financial mess I would never get out of.
I don’t blame Le Havre. Back then, I wasn’t an easy person to handle. I was always one of the first to mess around. So there were a lot of reasons why my adventure stopped at that point.
Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess.
Since all political parties blame the others for the economic mess, it is unfair to attribute unemployment to individual behaviour.
Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps. It became routine for me to line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall. It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower.
The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes of decent, normal citizens. It ruins the air we breathe. It corrupts and deadens our spirit.
There’s certain lines you just don’t cross. You know the one thing that will get a man out of pocket is when you mess with his children.
I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.
