I have a stunt double. His name is Glen Levy, and he has the hardest punch in the world. Seriously - it's actually been recorded by National Geographic. He calls it the Hammer Fist. And he's my stunt double! He makes me look awesome.
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.
The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury.
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That's the hardest thing to do, real people.
It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.
Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel.
One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.
The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.
The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.
I think for anybody, any family, and I know there are families out there that are going through this even now, that it is the hardest thing in the world. Nobody is ever prepared for it.
I gotta get working, you know? I've been too busy. I've been trying my hardest, but it's really tough.
Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't.
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.
Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.
One of the hardest challenges posed by the modern world is how to deal with abundance. It's even harder to confront because admitting that it's a problem seems spoiled.
It's always easiest for me as a writer if I know I have a great ending. It can make everything else work. If you don't have a good ending, it's the hardest things in the world to come up with one. I always loved the ending of 'The Kite Runner,' and the scenes that are most faithful to the book are the last few scenes.
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can't afford to get it wrong.
You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.
I love my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it's the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you - because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves.
It's the hardest thing in the world to dedicate to writing, but if you do that even once a week, after six months or a year you'll have something substantial.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
