My Element Quotes

#1. I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.

Bruce Forsyth

#2. I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.

Henry Rollins

#3. I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don't have a great deal of interest in reading a fictionalized present as it's pretty insane as it is.

Henry Rollins

#4. I've seen people who come to work say, 'No, I'm doing it this way, and that's that.' I'm the opposite - I like being out of my element; it's where I like to live.

Bill Hader

#5. I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.

Aaron Baddeley

#6. Okay", I breathed. "Then what will it take?" I was completely out of my element. Begging a girl to go on a date with me. This was fucked up."
"Miss it."
I stared into her cold, blue eyes and knew I'd just met the kind of girl books are written about.

Tarryn Fisher - Thief

#7. I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

Ziggy Marley

#8. Why did you want to go and distract me like that? I was quite in my element and everything.' Conall laughed. 'Someone has to keep you off balance; otherwise you'll end up ruling the empire. Or at least ordering it into wretched submission.

Gail Carriger

#9. I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.

Robert Schumann

#10. When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

Brett Ratner

#11. Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

May Sarton

#12. For me, style is about how you feel that day and what inspires you, as well as taking chances and making mistakes. Everything has to be comfortable. If things are too tight or too constricting, I feel out of my element.

Dree Hemingway

#13. Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element.

Rupert Giles

#14. Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element.

Doseone

#15. My first impulse is always to behave, about everything, as if I feared complications. But I don't fear them - I really like them. They're quite my element.

Henry James

#16. I was in my element, excuse the pun.

Adele Rose

#17. I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.

Norah Jones

#18. Music will always be a major part of my life, its my outlet, I'm in my element and I'm free.

Mandisa

#19. When I'm on the court, I feel like I'm in my element.

Lauren Jackson

#20. I know exactly what I'm doing on the ice, and I'm in my element.

Apolo Ohno

#21. I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element.

Kirsten Dunst

#22. I'm not in my element standing around in a bikini in front of strangers. I never stand up in a bikini, even at the swimming pool. I feel like a normal person when it comes to things like that. I'm like any other girl who doesn't want to show her bottom.

Elizabeth Hurley

#23. As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.

Charlaine Harris

#24. My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.

Chick Corea

#25. In all my movies, there's always a kind of heartfelt element, to be able to do a drama and to be able to spend more time in the emotional stuff with no pressure to get back to the funny that's very liberating for me.

Shawn Levy

#26. 'Nowhere Man' embodies one of my favorite themes - the hero completely out of his element. It's really near and dear to my heart.

Ruth Glick

#27. I've been working with music videos and commercials, they are naturally very music driven and visual driven. So that feels like my natural element to be working with that.

Fredrik Bond

#28. My craziest ideas come from cartoons. I approach music by taking that cartoon extreme and the real life extreme and finding somewhere in the middle. The animated element lures people in, but the real-life substance puts the nail in the coffin.

Busta Rhymes

#29. Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

Lady Gaga

#30. Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.

Pedro Almodovar

#31. It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

Edward Carpenter

#32. There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

William Trevor

#33. The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.

John Baldacci

#34. If I had to single out one element in my life that has made a difference for me, it would be a passion to compete.

Sam Walton

#35. Was this what marriage was, the slow process of getting to know another individual far better than was advisable? Sometimes [his] gestures and inflections were so mercilessly familiar that it was as if he were an extension of me, an element of my own personality over which I had little control.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#36. My work with churches has led me to the conclusion that the single most important element in having an effective and life-changing ministry is to capture God's vision for your ministry.

Phil Pringle

#37. Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

Jeanette Winterson

#38. Ever since I released my first album, I've tried not to use minor chords as the main element in songs. The way I sing is too melancholic.

Jose Gonzalez

#39. There was an aura about King that was unforgettable. I seem him now in my mind's eye: collected, peaceful, calm. He was in his element and totally in command of himself and the situation.

Junius Williams

#40. Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.

O'Shea Jackson Jr.

#41. I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.

David Shrigley

#42. I like the first-person games, but I like the two-person element in terms of playing basketball games with my friends. That's a good time; we have tournaments and things.

Kevin Weisman

#43. My work is distinct and definitive and specific, and hopefully it is so that every single character is different, and they are - but there's probably an underlying element that's me.

Michael Keaton

#44. I' is in the form of the eternal element (vastu swaroop) and 'my' is in the form of circumstances (saiyog swaroop). Circumstance form and eternal element form are two different things.

Dada Bhagwan

#45. The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is narrative, it is, in my opinion, historical. As to the fabulous element in the Old Testament, I very much doubt if you would be wise to chuck it out.

C.S. Lewis

#46. I think if I have established anything in my book, it's that a key element of being my friend is being comfortable with my forced fun.

Amy Poehler

#47. I have been blessed with luck, talent and opportunities, now it is my duty to add the hardworking element.

M.F. Moonzajer

#48. I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.

Rani Mukerji

#49. Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

Michael Steinhardt

#50. When I first set up my big band, I only had Gilson Lavis, the drummer from Squeeze, with me. He was the core element. Whenever a group hits the big time, they always get a new drummer because they really need that. You can make do with rubbish elsewhere.

Jools Holland

#51. There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldn't want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. It's hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.

Scott Stossel

#52. I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative.

Jan Brewer

#53. The only thing I have retained from my upbringing - I did not retain the religious element - is the idea that you do not do things for money.

John Sulston

#54. In every song, there is a vocal element that doesn't have any words. I wanted to play around with how emotive and expressive my voice could be.

Lia Ices

#55. The gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of being and best preserves the fire, the blood and the alphabet of Andalusian and universal truth ...

Federico Garcia Lorca

#56. What I believe, according to my own experience, is that a calm, peaceful mind is a very important element for sustaining the body in a balanced way.

Dalai Lama

#57. I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

A.R. Rahman

#58. My roots are very closely tied to the DNA of the brand. Growing up in Serbia where women are unapologetically very feminine, I came to London and realised that I wanted to keep this feminine element but give it a twist and challenge ideas of classical beauty.

Roksanda Ilincic

#59. Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.

John Dieterich

#60. I like there to be some interest in every element of my life.

Waris Ahluwalia

#61. When I get home from touring, I need to find something to match that so I don't get my adrenaline withdrawals. Being exposed to every element of danger while you're sitting on a motor -
that, to me, is freedom.

Mitch Lucker

#62. Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

Edith Sitwell

#63. Only, I felt, by some such attempt to write history in terms of personal life could I rescue something that might be of value, some element of truth and hope and usefulness, from the smashing up of my own youth by the war.

Vera Brittain

#64. I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience.

Lorraine Bracco

#65. Inside the flower, within the very structure of its petals, my soul is an element of nature, at one with the blooming Meadow Pinx in the fields on the coast of Marnan.

M. Larose

#66. There's a TV element to everything in my eyes.

Ryan Seacrest

#67. I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.

Steve Mann

#68. I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

John Malkovich

#69. There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

J. C. Chandor

#70. I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

Salman Rushdie

#71. In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.

Garth Nix

#72. My-ness (mamta) is indeed parigrah [attachment to material objects]; material object is not a parigrah. Gnani doesn't have My-ness (mamata), He has the eternal element (experience of Pure Soul).

Dada Bhagwan

#73. Outwardly, I hope, I wear my usual mask of detachment, even irony, for there has never been a situation,however dire, even this one, that did not strike me as containing at least some element of the human comedy.

Robert Harris

#74. The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that is uncontrollable - some element of the world that is essentially random and out of control.

John Irving

#75. My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

Naveen Jain

#76. I was to be a justifier, my task would be to deny the unpredictable human element of all Harlem so that they could ignore it when it in any way interfered with their plans.

Ralph Ellison

#77. My songs always tend to have a good element to the story. That is who I am - an optimistic person.

Rayvon Owen

#78. There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

Sigmar Polke

#79. There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.

William Shakespeare

#80. To my mind, any phenomenon is para-cinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g. modularity with respect to space or time.

Hollis Frampton

#81. My particular interest area is working in issues of emotional literacy. What I see of the way that we educate boys and more than that, the way we socialize boys within their families and then in schools to me is tantamount to just removing any element of emotional intelligence from them.

John Amaechi

#82. There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.

Lenny Kravitz

#83. I'm not anything like Brad Pitt or Antonio Banderas, but maybe it's the taboo element of my image, which is almost deathlike, that attracts them. I should be the last person that [people] should be attracted to.

Marilyn Manson

#84. I personally could never come to terms with my label of 'Criminally Insane'. Just because of my violent outbursts in prison, don't mean to say I'm mad. Obviously I had become a disruptive element within the penal system. Uncontrollable! Unpredictable! But that don't make insanity!

Stephen Richards

#85. My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.

Jason Biggs

#86. I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

Sam Claflin

#87. I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

George Murray

#88. That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

V.S. Naipaul

#89. Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.

Florence Welch

#90. If there's one thing that differentiates me from the rest of my family it's the rock element. I hung out with friends who like punk rock a lot. Not getting a big record deal, and having a hard time for years, it means you have to prove yourself and scratch your way up from nothing.

Martha Wainwright

#91. So for me having that element of being able to be competitive wasn't a problem. I'm very competitive. I thought if I could skate first, acting would come second. I could say my lines and then go do what I was saying. You don't have to fake it, you're not really acting.

John Robinson

#92. All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just for procreation but for being able to fully unbosom himself. He only feels comfortable discussing things with women. Which is funny, because 80 percent of readers are women!

Gary Shteyngart

#93. If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story.

Deanna Raybourn

#94. In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#95. My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great.

John Wesley

#96. Failure was a key element to my life's journey.

Paul Tudor Jones

#97. To my mind, the most important thing in any form of fiction is the human element, but only if it takes us beyond the everyday, into situations that examine the complexities that may fascinate or puzzle us. To dwell on the mundane as some kind of a writing exeercise is useless.

Graham Worthington

#98. I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English.

Louis Begley

#99. It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.

Irvine Welsh

#100. Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.

Tim Lebbon