If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.
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MARGARET ATWOOD For queer people, the personal is very political, just to talk about it in a public space. It's ...
BEN HOPKINS If you're raised Methodist, Catholicism is a bit of a workout. It's sort of like you're ...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train a...
LILY RABE As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but t...
RALPH FIENNES Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I thin...
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can...
DAVID HOCKNEY When movie people go over into television, it's a little bit of a shock. It's much faster-pa...
CHARISMA CARPENTER It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a st...
DOUG LIMAN If you have a difficult message to deliver in any circumstance, it's always best to do it first ...
KERRY STOKES If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-...
PATRICK WILSON People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long.
FRANK ABAGNALE But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for...
SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR I'm sure you're used to hearing that when people get to Long Island for the first time, it...
KATIE NOLAN Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line beca...
ASHLEY JENSEN But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an ...
DEMETRI MARTIN It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you s...
CARY-HIROYUKI TAGAWA Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?
MIRANDA LAMBERT Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you...
DEMETRI MARTIN I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch...
ALBERT FINNEY Anything that opens up people's perceptions a bit is good.
PETER DINKLAGE The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.
JASON WU Everyone's frightened. It's how you deal with that fear. It's very, very powerful. And w...
JIMMY IOVINE I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or t...
EDDIE MONEY I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined...
ROGER FEDERER You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with ro...
BONO We shot a bit of 'Hunted' in Tangier, and you are in a very, very different world. It's ...
ADAM RAYNER We need to change attitudes. We can only change attitudes by working together. Government will do it...
THERESA MAY If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... I don't watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the m...
DYLAN MORAN I think when you get on with the actors that you're working with, even if you do have really int...
SAOIRSE RONAN When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.
HANK AZARIA When you stand up there and do a press conference, it's a very preoccupied moment. You're st...
CHRISTINE QUINN I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It'...
CATHERINE TATE Technology has changed the fan/actor interaction quite a bit. Now it's really easy to communicat...
MISHA COLLINS If I'm going to do something a little bit more adult, I'll do it if it's going to be on ...
MELISSA JOAN HART Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk...
MARK BILLINGHAM When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero ...
AMY POEHLER It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.
CHERIE LUNGHI A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in th...
KURT BRAUNOHLER There's a song called 'My Faith' that's kind of my spiritual song on my record. It...
BRANTLEY GILBERT It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go...
NORM MACDONALD If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. ...
JONATHAN KING I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I d...
DAVE ATTELL I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES When you eat a piece of white bread, think of it as putting a tissue on a fire. But if you eat somet...
JILLIAN MICHAELS My view on politics is much more grassroots oriented; it's not old boy network oriented, so I te...
MICHAEL STEELE I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any se...
HAROLD PRINCE And if people do like me, I think it's because I'm a stand-up guy.
DAVID DUVAL When you're writing for a sequel and there's a movie that's been deemed sacred ground by...
TROY DUFFY As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mech...
LEN GOODMAN I sample a little bit of everything - a bit of 'House,' a little bit of 'Prison Break....
MICHAELA CONLIN And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your record...
JOAN JETT The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you ma...
HANK AARON The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're reall...
DOMHNALL GLEESON When you're working with people you've seen in hundreds of films... it's a bit crazy to ...
JAI COURTNEY When you win a big title like the French Open, it's tough. The emotion in doing this is really u...
STANISLAS WAWRINKA I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film 'Rusty Forkblade.' It was n...
EVAN DAUGHERTY Naples is curiously chaotic and, if I'm honest, a bit dilapidated. It certainly has a 'lived...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
NEIL GAIMAN I'm really pleased to share the 'Station to Station' film. It has a very unorthodox stru...
DOUG AITKEN I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives.
EMILY WATSON I try to make everything I write a little bit different. Those songs that go, 'I love you so muc...
JANE WIEDLIN If you're a goal scorer, you have to have a certain attitude. I'm very serious. My missus th...
MICHAEL OWEN Stand-up and sketch and improv - that's the most direct contact you can have with somebody, maki...
T. J. MILLER Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell...
TANC SADE I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
JACK QUAID People ended up not thinking much of me. They saw me as a bit of a troublemaker. It's important ...
DIEGO COSTA When I heard 'Dookie' by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it...
PETE WENTZ I'm a big believer than a great bit is a great bit - if I go and see someone I love, like Robert...
JERRY SEINFELD I don't have a 'Life's short, play hard' type of philosophy. That's about fear. ...
ERIKA CHRISTENSEN I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing ...
DYLAN MORAN The easiest bit is when you're talking. It's listening that is so difficult. If you get out ...
ART MALIK ...So to be fast to don't be long and to try to be short... If you want to play the best game, creat...
DEYTH BANGER It's nice sometimes to feel a bit more debonair.
BILLY HOWLE There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.
BILL HUNTER I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you d...
JIM VARNEY At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, ...
JULIA ORMOND I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, mo...
EMILY MORTIMER I grew up on the stage, and there's no two ways about it: you only get one chance to do your bit...
JACK LOWDEN Everyone's weird, I'm just a bit bizarre.
PENNIE LILLIAN That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there...
JASON SUDEIKIS If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite agains...
LAMORNE MORRIS But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as...
DAN STEVENS Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, o...
JORDAN PEELE If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very ...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.
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ROB RIGGLE Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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