- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cool Quotes
Cool means whatever you decide it means.
This set pushes back against borrowed definitions of cool, arguing instead for setting your own standard rather than following magazines or TV. It also touches on how simple it's become to jump into a new scene. Related reading in Chill Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Converting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty cool. It's a really a nice contrast to writing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
L.A. is cool. If I could have the rest of my family out there, I think it would make it that much better for me. As far as work and the weather, you can't really beat it. I just wish they had the New York social life out there. That would make it perfect.
- Nov 07, 2020
I just think about how much worse something could be, and I'm like, 'Alright, cool, whatever.' I'm nonchalant.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In real life, I have mostly gone for nice guys. I definitely had a phase where I was like, "Oh, the bad guy is really cool." It's fun to be bad for a while, and then that ended really terribly - one piece of advice I'll give to people is your mom is always right.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always a sci-fi and fantasy geek. I was in the 'Lord of the Rings' club and all my cool friends made fun of me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely think it's cool being Puerto Rican and Dominican, but I feel it has no influence on my music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is very practical, and she originally wanted me to have something to fall back on. She was a little fearful of my becoming an actor because she didn't see it as a way to make a living. My dad, who was born and raised in Cuba, was really cool with it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Melanie Fiona is a singer, a songwriter, she's a super-girl. I can be silly, goofy, really chilled. She's like your cool chill girlfriend, sister-friend. I'm just like everybody else.
- Cool Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Catty is not cool. I can't think of anything less becoming than a man who talks about people behind their backs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's cool when people know you more, but I like people to treat me regular when they see me. I take pictures. I don't really be big on people looking at me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't rely on catchphrases or really like sing-along. I just do whatever I feel. Whatever the beat makes me say, I do that and I run with that. It's been working for me, so I'd be cool with that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first acting part I ever got was a guest spot on 'Chicago Hope' playing a security guard. I thought, 'Oh, this is going to be cool.' But a little bit later, I got a vague part on this short-lived show called 'Marshall Law' with Arsenio Hall and Sammo Hung. It was a poor man's 'Rush Hour.'
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020