The problem when you’re a cartoonist and you go into the voting booth is that you have your choice of two guys – one would be best for your country, and one would be best for your business.
When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they’re all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.
I sat in the back of the broadcast booth for ages watching my dad do his job. And not just watching how he did his job, but how he interacted with people and how he regarded his job.
I auditioned for the leading role in ‘The Kissing Booth’ that came out on Netflix, funny enough.
I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You’d get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart’s ‘The Caine Mutiny,’ which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I’d gotten my first TV job.
When it comes time to go into the booth, I will be writing down President Mike Bloomberg.
I had a lot of respect for Prodigy. He brought the hood to the booth. When we were trying to shape this rap thing into something, he was one of the cats I respected for bringing the hood into the booth.
It’s amazing when I walk through an expo hall and can’t figure out what a company does just by walking past its booth.
Australians are crazy, man! Every night, I feel like I’m in a scene from Brad Pitt’s ‘World War Z’… the kids are going to figure out a way to from a zombie rave ladder over the plexiglass and come into the DJ booth and eat me alive… Not in a bad way at all.
Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.
My friends call me Clark Kent: I’m known to change in phone booths.
The idea of sitting in a booth, and having someone pay me to sign autographs, seems so gross to me.
Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.
You don’t realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.
When I’m not in the booth, I’m one of the most laid-back guys. But growing up, I liked DMX, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and T.I. – dudes that went all out on the track. My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy.
To tell you the truth, I don’t like talking too much once I leave this booth. I’m talked out.
I’ve just gained so much confidence in the booth since the ‘Sit Still Look Pretty’ era. I’m working with really talented producers and songwriters who bring out the best in me.
I’ve learned to really appreciate the courtside position and the art of picking up certain subtleties. Player expression you can’t see from a camera angle, or the booth.
Getting comfortable again and being in a vocal booth on the opposite end of the spectrum, when you’re normally the one tracking the vocals, is kind of scary.
I’m an ‘in the shower’ or ‘in the booth’ kind of singer. I can sing, but I need either nobody to be able to hear me, or for me to be able to redo it.
I’m a registered Independent. But my brother says it’s obvious that I’m a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the voting booth, it doesn’t matter.
Because I put in so much time and preparation, when I’m in the booth during a game, I see X’s and O’s. I just see football, and I remove my emotion from anything I ever do, whether it’s my kids playing, Ohio State playing.
A guy gave me a job at an information booth – no questions asked.
As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.
I normally work like a vampire. Around 8 to 9 P.M., what I call ‘the spirits’ actually show up, and then I just go in the booth and scream on top of a track. I only sing on the mic. I don’t sit down and write anything.
Our phones don’t just keep us in touch with the world; they’re also diaries, confessional booths, repositories for our deepest secrets.
When I am in the sound booth, I am trying to convey as much as I can through just my voice.
That’s what cool about me being here and still being in the wrestling business. I can still give back, even being in the announcer’s booth. I still feel like I’m a role model and I have a job to do.
Maybe down the line I think I would like to call a game, but right now, I recognize where my talents are and how much work and growth I would have to have in order to be able to step into that booth.
The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.
If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don’t think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It’s a great survivor.
Working with Timbaland, he gives me insight; he throws me different ways to approach the beat, and those extra tips go a long way. I know that he’s worked with some of the greats, so it’s just motivation. I feel inspired when we’re in the booth together.
Whether it’s on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it’s about stories.
The camera or the microphone in the booth is merciless. If you don’t believe what you’re saying, it hears it. If you don’t believe it, it sees it in your eyes, it hears it in your voice that there isn’t the conviction there.
I’m in the booth and first of all, I’m from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.
‘The Fire in The Booth’ exposed me to a wider audience. I had hundreds of thousands of followers, loyal followers before that, that’s been following me on the journey.
A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from ‘The Simpsons.’ To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield – it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.
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