Stuff Quotes - Page 13

• When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Stars, Thinking, Ham

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• This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

  Vince Gill

  Country, Real, Records

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• I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Rap, Guy, Way

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• I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.

  Greg Lake

  Black, Musical, Trying

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• Cheese is one of my great weaknesses, I could eat the stuff by the pound.

  Helena Christensen

  Weakness, Pounds, Cheese

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I started coming to do shows in New York, New York had a pretty electric energy then. It was the early-nineties, and there was a lot of really fun theatrical types that were designing, and so the runway kind of became this stage for all of these mega model personalities to flaunt their stuff.

  Shalom Harlow

  New York, Fun, Design

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• I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid.

  Dylan McDermott

  People, World, Horror

  "Dylan McDermott Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, His New Role on the Show, Why the Show Resonates with Viewers and Returning for Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 20, 2012.

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• I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

  Sam Shepard

  Thinking, Way, My Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone--journalist, student, academic--who has ever stared at a blank screen, their brains grinding emptiness, and thought, How can I fill this hole? knows that in those desperate moments before a deadline, almost anyone can do almost anything: make stuff up, plagiarize, scribble senseless half-truths.

  David Edelstein

  Glasses, Media, Brain

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• I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Writing, Gathering, Jinx

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• The darker, more complex and emotional the part is, the easier it is for me. But I don't take any of that stuff home with me at the end of the day.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Home, Emotional, The End Of The Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.

  Alexei Sayle

  Character, Age, Novel

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• When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me.

  Chester Brown

  Teenager, Interesting, Stories

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• I can't tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many reasons. They could have personality conflicts. They could have misunderstandings. Lots of stuff can happen.

  Alberto Salazar

  Athlete, Personality, Conflict

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 5, 2012.

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• It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

  Anne Heche

  Loving Yourself, Tragedy, Important

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.

  Chuck D

  Term

  "Return of the great rap rebel" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2008.

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• The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff.

  James Ellroy

  Doors, People, Waiting

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• As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.

  Emmitt Smith

  Football, Pain, Player

  "Q&A: Emmitt Smith on Dancing with the Stars". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. October 8, 2012.

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• I'll do anything for free stuff.

  Sandra Bullock

  Free Stuff

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• I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Ideas, Would Be, Want

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• I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.

  Adam Sandler

  Bars, Too Much, Circle Of Friends

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• Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.

  Dave Eggers

  Years, Needs, Done

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• You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.

  Dave Eggers

  Smart, Kids, People

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• I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter.

  Michael Symon

  Gob, Buying, Firm

  "Top Chefs Share Their Mothers’ Best Lessons" by Allison Adato, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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• I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.

  Mike Myers

  Character, Ideas, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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