Stuff Quotes

I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

A lot of African wildlife is very big. If you're protecting the big stuff, you're usually protecting the small stuff, too.

I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

I wanted to make some music with deeper meaning mixed with the fun and cool stuff I've been doing for so long.

All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.

Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

Ridiculous stuff happens when I travel.

The thing about films is you learn new stuff all the time. You think you can get to a point where you've got it all down. But then another, different situation arises.

You have to let your team get all the credit for all the good stuff that happens, and you take responsibility for the bad stuff.

I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.

If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.

Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.

You sit around watching all this stuff happen on TV. . . and the TV sits and watches us do nothing! The TV must think we're all pretty lame.

My children, every time they ask me for something, I tell them to round their old stuff up.

Stop focusing on the bad stuff because life is too damn short.

I've heard that I'm 'the future of tennis.' But that's all just random stuff.

The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.

The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, replaying itself over and over.

I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening.

Leaders do stuff that matters.

If you want to make the best of yourself you don't necessarily need to diet - you need to wear the right stuff.

I like more streetwear and baggier stuff. I like what Off-White is doing, I like what Fear of God is doing. There's a brand called FourTwoFour out of L.A. that's doing a lot of good stuff too.

I call my mom and talk to her about random stuff I saw on the Internet. That's kind of the only constant in my day-to-day.

I worry about what we'll do in the future, [about the instantaneous co-opting of pop culture]. Where is our new stuff going to come from?

I don't really need new stuff anyway. I like to make big stuff, and it's too expensive to travel with. So I have my refined set that works well, and I'm pretty much set with that.

I'm not even a trained producer. I just keep following my ear and working on stuff until it sounds the way I like it.

When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.

Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell ideas. Not stuff.

The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.

I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

The romantic stuff comes a lot easier when you're experiencing true love. It feels better, it feels more natural to record love songs when you're in love.

I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.

I grew up doing martial arts, and I love martial arts movies and fight scenes. I'm pretty athletic, so I enjoy doing that stuff.

There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.

The thing that makes me want to make pictures now is just looking without many prejudices. The stuff right under your eyes is the most wonderful universe - if you care to look with young eyes.

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.

I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

You can't solve climate change by everybody individually buying a more efficient car and throwing out less stuff. You have to make national changes through national policy.

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.

I'm just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it's amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.

Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.

In the early '90s I was floating somewhere between the Brat Pack/Andrew McCarthy/James Spader/Pretty In Pink kind of stuff and the alterna-pop look, crossed with a very distinct grunge sensibility.