When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.
I like pushing the envelope. I like pushing myself and the audience, whether it's a TV show or live. I like to throw people over the edge of the cliff and scare the wits out of them, but then pull them back and make them safe.
I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.
We're at this place where we're pushing the next stylistic envelope.
Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn't really push the envelope at home.
You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.
With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.
I never pushed the envelope of wanting people to know me, or be on the covers of magazines. I just want to enjoy what I'm doing.
Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.
I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.
Even in the Pixar and DreamWorks animated movies, there are themes that could be taken into an adult area very easily. 'Zootopia,' I think, is the closest so far; I love that movie because they really did push the envelope as far as the ideas and writing of an animated film for families.
People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.
Once I came up with the 'Stone Cold' thing, it was like a snowball rolling down a hill; it just kept getting larger and larger, and I wasn't afraid to push the envelope.
The best businesspeople have a hunger to make their todays better than their yesterdays. They have a staggeringly large appetite for pushing the envelope.
You don't come to work going, 'Oh my God, I've got all this money I have to worry about'. You come to work going, 'I need more time and more money'. Because whatever resources you're given, you're always trying to push the envelope.
I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.
Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.
In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope.
Pushing the envelope, musically speaking, is what needs to be done to rise to the top.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
It was early on in 1965 when I wrote some of my first poems. I sent a poem to 'Harper's' magazine because they paid a dollar a line. I had an eighteen-line poem, and just as I was putting it into the envelope, I stopped and decided to make it a thirty-six-line poem. It seemed like the poem came back the next day: no letter, nothing.
We are trying to push the envelope with a lot of characters in 'Brothers.' We are going out of the way and being honest to our roles.
