When you're a choreographer and you put so much into a routine that's emotionally driven, those are like my ideas and my little babies that I have here and then I put them out there and they're there to be judged and looked at. When it's all over, it's just such a relief.
‐‐ Derek Hough
When you're a comedian, you're another race. You're friends with all these comedians who are white, black and brown. It's us against the world.
‐‐ Mike Binder
When you're a comedic actor and you're used to just getting laughs, it's kind of scary to go serious, even for a second.
‐‐ Megyn Price
When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kind of black rage that feeds at your heart from the moment you wake up in the morning, and you discover Marcus Aurelius' 'The Meditations,' that changes your life.
‐‐ Nic Pizzolatto
When you're a creative person, there are just times when you're not listening. You know, I could be looking right at you and thinking about something else.
‐‐ Brad Paisley
When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.
‐‐ Heather Brooke
When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
‐‐ Bebe Neuwirth
When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.
‐‐ Rita Rudner
When you're a director, and you look at Scorsese's work, he's always challenging us to push the envelope and break the rules. Someone like that is necessary and a godsend.
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua
When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.
‐‐ John Lasseter
When you're a dweeb, when you're really young, it stands out. But as everybody gets older and more conservative, it's not an issue any more.
‐‐ Catherine Jinks
When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.
‐‐ Chris Evert
When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.
‐‐ Patrick Demarchelier
When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.
‐‐ Louis C. K.
When you're a father, you know exactly where your heart really is. There's no question of it, no doubt. That part of your life has no second guessing.
‐‐ Fred Ward
When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.
‐‐ Kevin Smith
When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting hanging on the wall of a stately home in England. It's not until you limp into your 70s that people in their 40s look too young to vote, and college cheerleaders closely resemble Yorkshire terriers.
‐‐ Dan Jenkins
When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.
‐‐ Diane Paulus
When you're a French woman and you have a lot of Latin blood, you can be very dramatic. It definitely makes your personal life exciting - and exhausting.
‐‐ Josephine de La Baume
When you're a front man for a band, there's nowhere to hide. It took me a long time to get used to that. But music is my first love. I started singing when I talked.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan
When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever.
‐‐ Jody Watley
When you're a girl, you have to be everything, You have to be dope at what you do, but you have to be super sweet, and you have to be sexy, and you have to be this and you have to be that and you have to be nice, and you have to - it's like, I can't be all of those things at once. I'm a human being.
‐‐ Nicki Minaj
When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a family reunion, but it's not your family. So you don't belong - they're being nice to you, but you don't fit in completely; you don't know everybody's story. You don't have a history.
‐‐ Ato Essandoh
When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.
‐‐ Robert Vaughn
When you're a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes.
‐‐ David Copperfield
When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.
‐‐ Alexander Payne
When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did.
‐‐ Pauly Shore
When you're a kid, and you're a superhero lover, the holy trinity is Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, so to be able to take any of those and play with it is a huge joy.
‐‐ Alex Kurtzman
When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that.
‐‐ Tom Waits
When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities.
‐‐ Jacques Audiard
When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.
‐‐ Greg Louganis
When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that's what it's all about.
‐‐ Joe Morgan
When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.
‐‐ Rob Brydon
When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch
When you're a kid that's all you want to do, go out and play football.
‐‐ Alan Smith
When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.
‐‐ Daniel Libeskind
When you're a kid, you don't want to be teased.
‐‐ Rebel Wilson
When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.
‐‐ AnnaSophia Robb
When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.'
‐‐ David Johansen
When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.
‐‐ Hugo Weaving
When you're a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down.
‐‐ Michael Owen
When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke
When you're a kid, you might be picked on for your differences. When you're an adult, employers, colleges, friends - people look for differences when you're adult, and that's what makes you shine and stand out.
‐‐ Crystal Bowersox
When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that.
‐‐ Tavi Gevinson
When you're a kid, you're not as corrupted by the world at large. You're not corrupted by prejudices. You're much more open-minded. Much more interested in the world around you. 'Sweet Tooth' is about the world returning to that kind of place.
‐‐ Jeff Lemire
When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.
‐‐ Theophilus London
When you're a kid, you read about this glamorous acting world, but actually it's really unglamorous.
‐‐ Jodie Whittaker
When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.
‐‐ Fred Durst
When you're a kid, you think 'Oh, it's so great. I'm going to go to Hollywood. I'm going to go to Broadway.' For a long time, it was such a novelty.
‐‐ Reggie Lee
When you're a kid, you want to be a millionaire.
‐‐ Rickey Henderson
When you're a kid, your first five or six years, you converge all the time. School is about training that out of you, especially universities.
‐‐ Lawrence Weschler