Have you tried?" Tove countered, his eyes sparkling. "Well. . . no," I admitted. "Do it. " "How?" He shrugged. "Figure it out. " "You're really good at this training thing," I said with a sigh.
I am the guy dressing up in, you know, the caveman outfit for the kids birthday parties.
Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.
Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.
I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars. ’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) What’s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.
Mostly people are interested in how somebody becomes an actor. And then, if they've had a couple of drinks, they want to know what Demi Moore's like or whatever. I mean, I don't mind people asking that at all, but when you've answered it five times. . .
I don't look back with any bitterness, though there are a couple of judgment calls and some '80s hairdos that I'd like to do over.
I'm a single girl. I like to have a good time. I just sleep with the guys in the band all the time because it's easier.
Establishing and maintaining clarity for yourself and what you want is the starting point for success. Thus, maintaining extraordinary clarity is necessary to achieve extraordinary success. The problem is that most people maintain a mediocre level of clarity, which inevitably leads to a mediocre level of success.
You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences.