Messing Quotes

"I like George Lucas and Tim Burton because there`s no messing about. No 100 takes of me walking through a door. They know what they want and when they get it, we move on. Naming no names but, with some directors, it`s take after take and take 22 is the exact same as the first one".

(2004 Quote on drinking) "I made a conscious decision to break away from big films when I got alcohol out of my life. I had been sucked into the blockbuster, box office mentality and it was destroying my sense of purpose in life. The loneliness of fame was messing with my head. Once you`ve been famous for a while and told your story, it can sound like a lie. You don`t know what`s true. It sounds like an article someone wrote rather than the essence of who you are."

I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I`m not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I`ll just see what happens with it.

I think of being an actor as kind of a young man`s gig. It`s emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point and then I start to feel like a puppet.

The thing with Ridley (Scott) is he`s been doing this forever, he knows what it is he wants and how to get it. There`s absolutely no messing around on set. Having said that, he`s very accessible to actors, very open to what you want to do and willing to talk about it. He casts people who he feels are going to bring something to the role and allows them to take care of the situation, to do what it is that they do.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.

They were using alcohol. They were attracted to each other. They got together behind this Dumpster at Seville Quarter. They were messing around, and it ended up with a push and a hit and turned into a tragic situation.

When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone`s priorities. It`s like you`re dissing them.

He brings all the things you look for in a head coach. He is prepared, he is focused, he obviously wants to win and he has a plan. He is going to be successful and get done what he wants done with or without you. That I do like. He holds everybody accountable and he is not afraid to tell someone that they are messing up. Everyone has to be accountable and know their role and take care of their job and be focused and be intense.

A man came up and tried to grab my arm, so I kept backing up and he was messing with the other safeties and he threw a rock and the kid has a mark on his chest.

Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I`ve never looked back.

I started messing around with the family 8mm camera or a borrowed VHS camera so I could make my own bloody special effects scenes.

There is nothing absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

There`s a return to the values we learned as a kid. Most of us remember messing around with our dad or our mom in the garden and the workshop. There`s an inherent satisfaction in working with your hands. The only space you can control is the space within your four walls.

I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.

I heard about Facebook, before BV got it, from my friends that go to other schools, ... I was messing around on my computer on Friday night and it let me register.

I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.

We`re always like that. We`re just messing around with each other. He`s my family.