I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.
~By Eddie Murphy ~
My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
~By Pamela Anderson ~
Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy.
~By Rick Allen ~
I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.
~By Samuel West ~
Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.
~By Jane Seymour ~
It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.
~By Michael Bay ~
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
~By Augustine Birrell ~
This is such a special summer holiday for me. I haven't known myself so relaxed in years.
~By Kylie Minogue ~
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
~By Barbara Walters ~
I find that putting my makeup on and playing with different looks is really relaxing for me before the show.
~By Martina McBride ~
I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.
~By Cathy Freeman ~
To relax, I work.
~By Christopher Lambert ~
Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all.
~By Peter Bondra ~
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
~By Ben Jonson ~
What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.
~By Fritz Kreisler ~
I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.
~By Judd Nelson ~
The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.
~By Tom Felton ~
When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.
~By Benicio Del Toro ~
There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.
~By Justin Guarini ~
So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.
~By Jo Brand ~
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let their guard down and stop being tough and the cool jock guy around their friends, or just relax? I don't know if it's best to say opening up, but just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.
~By Channing Tatum ~
We came around the corner, I kissed her and after I kissed her she relaxed. And then I grabbed her and kissed her again and she was shocked! And that was what we wanted.
~By Rod Steiger ~
We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
~By Christina Aguilera ~
I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it.
~By Justin Guarini ~
The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.
~By William Floyd ~
Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.
~By Jackson Browne ~
The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.
~By Tom Osborne ~
So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.
~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
You know I used to sit there and I'd go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free time I just kind of lay back and relax because this atmosphere is so busy and stressful, so anytime I can sleep, you'd best believe I'm sleepin'.
~By Scotty McCreery ~
I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.
~By Larry King ~
You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.
~By Emerson Fittipaldi ~
It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.
~By Glenn Frey ~
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
~By Herodotus ~
I like a girl to look relaxed. Tight jeans and rock t-shirts are cute!
~By Devon Werkheiser ~
That's definitely a part of who Superman is and definitely who Clark on the farm is. It translates to how calm he is. I feel like I'm pretty calm most of the time and relaxed, which gives presence to the character.
~By Brandon Routh ~
Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.
~By Frank Shorter ~
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.
~By Barbara Hershey ~
We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.
~By Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ~
I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
~By Mary Decker Slaney ~
Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.
~By Thomas Bulfinch ~
I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed.
~By Elizabeth Perkins ~
The older I get, the more relaxed I am.
~By Claire Forlani ~
I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
~By Dabney Coleman ~
I was working straight for nine months and I'm exhausted. I'm ready to relax for a little while and read. I don't want to work for work sake; I have to be excited about it.
~By Sanaa Lathan ~
I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.
~By Patton Oswalt ~
I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
~By Yves Saint Laurent ~
I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
~By Ian Hart ~
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.
~By Thom Mayne ~
Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day's Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but even then they were quite relaxed about it.
~By Richard Lester ~
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
~By Indra Devi ~
The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
~By Charles Barkley ~
I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.
~By Paul Reiser ~
I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.
~By Garth Brooks ~
I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict.
~By Lindsay Lohan ~
I had a really good feeling about that match. You know, they are good friends, and Chris had to feel really relaxed because of being out there with Tiger.
~By Hal Sutton ~
I do pottery. I love it. It's very relaxing; it takes me to another planet.
~By Eva Herzigova ~
I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
~By Dan Simmons ~
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
~By Brian Eno ~
You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.
~By Tom Cruise ~
Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
~By Patricia Richardson ~
The more relaxed you can get, the better you'll do.
~By Isaac Mizrahi ~
I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.
~By Mary Docter ~
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
~By Alan Watts ~
Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.
~By LaToya London ~
In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.
~By John Frusciante ~
I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life.
~By Frankie Avalon ~
I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?
~By Felicity Kendal ~
I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!
~By Richard Pryor ~
With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor.
~By Hugh Grant ~
I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
~By Tina Turner ~
Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.
~By Michael Phelps ~
There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.
~By Ivor Novello ~
It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.
~By Stirling Moss ~
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
~By Ian Mcewan ~
I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before.
~By Jennifer Wyatt ~
The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.
~By Andrew Wiles ~
I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
~By Victoria Beckham ~
Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
~By Oscar de la Renta ~
I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it-despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.
~By Melanie Griffith ~
To me I've just really, really found a relaxed, peaceful side of my life and I'm enjoying it.
~By Greg Norman ~
That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.
~By Arne Jacobsen ~
Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.
~By David Guterson ~
Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.
~By Matthew Ashford ~
I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.
~By Garth Brooks ~
I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that's going on around the world right now, it's just good to go to a movie where you don't have to think too hard, just have a good time, and relax and be crazy.
~By Blair Underwood ~
I love to go to Ireland just to relax.
~By Ron Wood ~
I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.
~By Robert Goulet ~
Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.
~By Joe Cocker ~
Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
~By Doug Coupland ~
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