I had – and continued to have – great fun exploring the Revelation Space universe, but it was always clear to me that I wanted to write other kinds of books, even within what might be termed the fairly narrow overlapping genre categories of hard SF and space opera.
To be able to go to place where friends and family fly in to watch me play, having lots of home support and enjoying Dubai, is always great fun.
I have great fun with the Togs – Terry’s Old Geezers and Gals. They’re a group that formed around me over the years of my radio shows. They are loyal to me and I’m loyal to them, so I’ve been to their conventions – Leicester University gives us their campus.
Recording at Compass Point was really fantastic. When you’re in the studio, you could be anywhere: It could be snowing outside or whatever. But it’s great fun when you come out of the studio and are greeted by nice weather and good bars.
No affairs for me. It is so wonderful to have a family to come home to, to sit with them, pull each other’s legs… To lose all of that for what? Who’s got the time? I’m having great fun working.
For an actor, it’s great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.
When your dream comes true you have to have great fun.
She told fortunes for a living. It’s a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960’s.
I am thrilled to be taking part in ‘Hogfather.’ I am a huge fan of Terry Pratchett’s books, and to play the part of Albert is going to be great fun.
Touring with Yes was generally great fun, and I got on well with the rest of the guys, but we were like chalk and cheese in many respects. I was unique in the band as a card-carrying Conservative.
There is no actor in the world with such talent and charm that could play Deadpool as well as Ryan Reynolds. Working with him was a fantastic experience, and his ideas and suggestions helped me out a lot. It was just great fun to work one-on-one as Deadpool and Colossus.
‘The Simpsons’ appearances were great fun. But I don’t take them too seriously. I think ‘The Simpsons’ have treated my disability responsibly.
Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.
I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
Watching movies in the U.S. is great fun because they get every joke, they smile, they laugh so much; it’s a great feeling.
When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, got holes in my trousers and muddied all my tops and things like that; a complete nightmare for the washing, but great fun.
If you mess around with your mates, you get into rough and tumble then you remember you’re in your mid-40s and you can’t land the way you used to, so it’s great fun.
Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.
There are many things that you can’t measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
Covering two presidential campaigns for CNN was great fun, especially because of remarkable friends throughout the entire political unit, especially Mark Preston.
Playing the villain is great fun.
I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it’s a great frequency and it’s great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.
Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.
The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.
People ask me over and over how is it that I work with stars. How do you work with Barbra Streisand, with Paul Newman, with Al Pacino, with Sally Field, Jane Fonda, you work with all these people. Isn’t this a problem? And it isn’t a problem at all. It’s terrific. It’s great fun. And I don’t know what the answer is.
Being the Children’s Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
It’s great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I’ve always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.
I am constantly trying to push my boundaries and break the mould that has been made for leading actresses, and it is such great fun.
The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what’s going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.
It’s so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again – every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It’s like throwing a horseshoe. It’s great fun.
Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
Pop was great fun.
I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: ‘Yeah, why not?’ I hadn’t watched it, to be honest, but I’d seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.
Because I’m not a spy in ‘Spooks’ and I’m not in every day I’m able to do other things, which is great fun because it breaks it all up for me and I get some time to spend with my daughter.
With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there’s nothing there. You get to color things in more and you’re allowed to overreach yourself a little bit more, and it’s great fun.
I shall miss all the people in it and the great fun we had doing it. I enjoyed playing the character very much. It was a very, very special character and a very special series. And the camaraderie of it all. I loved it.
I think I was never home when I was directing, because you’re either prepping, shooting, or editing, and then acting at the same time. It’s really time-consuming, but it was great fun.
Celebrations are great fun: bunting and this and that and the other.
Sudheer Varma is very easy going and very confident director. He knows exactly what he wants. He has a very good vision and knows how many shots he wants for a scene. He is super fast. He gives freedom for actors to try different things. The atmosphere on the sets was never serious. We had great fun working together.
The whole cast of Sirphire’ was a great fun to shoot with; singers Preet Harpal, Roshan Prince were like brothers while shooting and we formed our own trio.
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