If Barbra Steisand wants to make a picture called ‘My Pink Fingernail,’ the studios will go, ‘Gee, Barbra, what a wonderful idea! Money is no object! Take two years in preproduction and write the music, and you’ll direct.’
I don’t think, ‘Gee, I’d like to dress this person.’ There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship.
You have these big $200 and $300 million movies with special effects, and I’ve always thought, ‘Gee, why don’t we make 30 movies instead of one $300 million movie?’ Let’s shake it up a bit; wouldn’t that be a better bet? Evidently not.
Midwestern people stick together. Gee willikers, they work hard. There’s no glitz, no glamour. When I was a girl in Duluth, Minnesota, I used to get up early and milk cows, so I know what hard work is.
Crikey means gee whiz, wow!
I’ve been offered lots of movies. There’s always some actor who’s doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, ‘Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.’ I’d like to do something only I can do.
People say, ‘Gee, you don’t really do political music.’ Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected… So I’m proud to be a feminist.
When we go out to the university, the professors always say, ‘Tell these students about your five-year plan and your 10-year plan,’ and I say, ‘Gee, we’re lucky if we have a year plan.’
I moved to Harvard in 1998, and in 2000 the first kidney exchange in the United States was done at a hospital nearby. I started to think, ‘Gee, there might be a way where I could help organize it, make it easier for people to find kidneys.’
Gee whiz, I know that some movie stars don’t like to be bothered, but I don’t mind. I think it’s part of the package, and it’s not a bother.
I guess I could sit around and say, ‘Gee, I wish I were playing at the Capital Centre tonight instead of Hammerjacks,’ but it doesn’t happen.
Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we’ll get some fluid and embalm each other.
The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don’t stand around and say, ‘Gee, what are they talking about?’ Rock is simple, blunt, colorful. Same with my paintings. You don’t stand back and wonder what it is. That’s Jim Morrison, that’s a panda, that’s a scene on the West Coast. It’s not abstract.
I don’t have regrets. I’ve never sat here and thought, ‘Gee, if only I’d done ‘The Man Who Came to Dinner’ on Broadway, I would have been happier.’
Madeleine L’Engle’s ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ has been targeted by censors for promoting New Ageism, and Mark Twain’s ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ for promoting racism. Gee, where does that leave the kids?
If I can laugh with people, it makes me feel safe with them. If I feel someone has no sense of humour, I find it really scary. I do it with the kids as well: put on stupid voices to lighten up the spirit or gee them along to do something.
Some women have said, ‘Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?’ But they were converted and sometimes surprised.
At tax time, people are going to say, ‘Gee, if the IRS asks for documents from me, and I destroy them, I wouldn’t get away with that.’ But that’s effectively what Commissioner Koskinen has been able to get away with.
When we go out to the university, the professors always say, ‘Tell these students about your five-year plan and your 10-year plan,’ and I say, ‘Gee, we’re lucky if we have a year plan.’
I don’t trust the Bee Gee’s because there’s no way they could always be happy.
My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.
The poem ‘What Teachers Make’ is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: ‘Gee, Mr. Mali. You don’t possibly have a teacher-God complex, do you?’ And that was the first time I’d ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I’m sure I have a teacher-God complex.
You have these big $200 and $300 million movies with special effects, and I’ve always thought, ‘Gee, why don’t we make 30 movies instead of one $300 million movie?’ Let’s shake it up a bit; wouldn’t that be a better bet? Evidently not.
I’d never try to be that distinctive from the Bee Gees’ sound. I’m very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I’ll be identified as a Bee Gee.
I’m so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say ‘Gee whiz, the vocal’s beautiful.’ I hear, ‘It needs to be better.’
I’m no spring chicken. The same arthritis that ate up my left hip that finally got replaced hasn’t stopped there… And touring is a lot of work. I’m impressed when I see people like Eric Clapton out there. Gee whiz, Eric, give me a break! I know it’s gotta hurt somewhere.
I’d just like to see a role for women where someone who isn’t traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. ‘Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?’
For us, gender didn’t come up. We were friends who happened to play together. We never said, ‘Gee, we’re an all-girl band!’
Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in ’71, I got very excited about it, thinking well, gee, the deaf community could really use this, or the hard-of-hearing community as well.
For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge – this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, ‘Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.’
When I grew up, people said, ‘You’ll never be the man your dad was.’ And I said, ‘Gee, I hope not.’
I think I had a superb campaign team. And I know it’s always expected that if you lose, people point to the campaign team and say, ‘Gee, they didn’t do their job well.’ If you win, they’re all brilliant. And the team, in my view, did a superb job.
When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn’t break up the team.
I was nervous. I was thinking, ‘Gee, he’s Ralph Fiennes. What an amazing actor, and I can have this scene with him.’ But I enjoyed it, you know. That’s what I got into acting to do – to push myself and see if I can do these things.
People say, ‘Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.’ I think I’ve done two, out of 60.
Some women have said, ‘Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?’ But they were converted and sometimes surprised.
Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.
The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, ‘Gee, you are really special’ to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.
I remember one time watching a bird snatch a dragonfly out of midair and thinking, ‘Gee, life can come to an end – crunch! – just like that.’
If I can laugh with people, it makes me feel safe with them. If I feel someone has no sense of humour, I find it really scary. I do it with the kids as well: put on stupid voices to lighten up the spirit or gee them along to do something.
I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.
The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‘Gee, isn’t that wonderful?’
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