My songs aren’t bubble gum pop dance songs and I don’t have background dancers on every single song.
You know, I find it so difficult being a… as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.
I come from a background where bigger women are appreciated. After all, you can’t belly dance with a flat stomach, so my ideal body would be curvy, womanly and voluptuous.
It’s more fun in a way to do ensemble scenes, where you know your background, you know the scene, but you can’t prepare because someone else is going to say something that is going to lead you off.
I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music – hip-hop, and just music, period. ‘Cause I come from hip-hop, that’s my background, but I’m not gonna let that limit me from where I can go.
My background is in acting, so I enjoy being able to show what I’m looking for. With acting, it’s very immediate when you show someone what you’re looking for, and the feedback is instantaneous as well.
I do write long, long character notes – family background, history, details of appearance – much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.
We simply want gun legislation in this country that allows law-abiding citizens to still own guns or prevents people with a history of mental illness or a history of a criminal background from owning a firearm.
I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.
Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
Today’s terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.
Most Americans think there’s already universal background checks. They don’t understand why there wouldn’t be a background check to purchase a weapon.
People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable’s role, or most of them.
I go back and think of President Kennedy, who had a military service background, but he comes into the presidency, and he’s faced with a decision on the Bay of Pigs, with the C.I.A. and the military giving him data, and it turns out very badly.
I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what their faith experience has been, their education, their work experience. All of those are factors that voters look at because they want to take a measure of the individual.
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background – the commander and the pilot.
I’m from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.
I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force – like The Force in ‘Star Wars’ – where it doesn’t matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
I’m much calmer when there’s no TV or music playing in the background.
Coming from a filmy background, I have seen everything growing up, but even at that point of time, it never really fascinated me. I did not like going to my dad’s shoots. We were taught not to get carried away with it from a very young age.
I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.
My fiction is almost always inspired by a character’s need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.
To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.
As a child, I’d always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers – gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.
I’m from a working-class background, and I’ve experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.
I’ve been shocked by film actors – 25 and under – having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background is more about the director being in control. It’s all about yielding. It’s an oddly submissive relationship in which you’re moulded, Pygmalion-style.
Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn’t work.
I’m proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed.
If Janet Jackson does the story of her life and I’m still young enough, I am there. No one can pull her off like I can. I have a dance background. I’m definitely not cutting an album anytime soon, but I can lip-synch all day. I can’t sing, but I can act like it very well.
Like many actors, I started off as a monkey. My first job ever was as an extra in Tim Burton’s ‘Planet of the Apes.’ I’m the tiny little monkey in the background. I met Rick Baker doing that – then, because of my size and the fact I was older than 18, he figured I could double Daveigh Chase in ‘The Ring.’
I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.
I don’t come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.
I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background.
I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.
I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school.
I have a background in theater. At the time I read ‘The Loved Ones’ script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ and Isabella in ‘Measure for Measure.’
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.
Just because you have a good athletic background doesn’t make you necessarily a good wrestler. Because it takes a lot to be a good professional wrestler.
It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
I come from a very working-class background.
I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
Dream Theater music, there’s a lot of background and context to the songs, as far as the subject matter and the albums they come from.
So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup – but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
My background’s working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don’t come from any sense of privilege.
Anything is possible. My background is a bad background, but a lot of people said I couldn’t do it. You can do anything if you put your mind to it.
It’s easy enough to foist your music collection on your kids. Lectures are not required; you just play the stuff while they are prisoner in the back seat on a long drive, or softly in the background while eating dinner.
I didn’t know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don’t even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.
I did recording sessions as a musician as well as a background vocalist and enjoyed every minute of it. I remember singing harmony with Waylon Jennings on a few songs that were hits. Chet Atkins always put me up so high that I strained to hit every note. It was a lot of fun.
Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.
I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.
I started out coming from more of a concert music background. It just turns out that 20th-century music techniques lend themselves to scary movies and horror movies.
