While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising.
What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.
Thankfully, I have a very full life. I'm married with kids, so I have a lot of things to focus on, other projects either in post-production or pre-production, so you just do the best you can.
The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.
We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.
My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.
What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.
Hardware works best when it matters the least.
I grew up in church and on the block; the best of both worlds.
There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.
The best thing about me is there are no skeletons.
The best project is one that asks a novel question.
Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.
I never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like it, so I carried on doing it.
I came to Los Angeles to be an actor, which is, at best, a gamble.
I never go to Vancouver without stopping by Thomas Haas' shop for the best chocolate in North America. A former chef patissier at Daniel, he returned to his hometown and created a top quality brand by sticking to his passion.
Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.
It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.
I think guitar is the best thing in the world.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
When I did my first price guide in 1979, publications weren't interested in mentioning it. Now I get phone calls weekly if not daily from publications and television shows who want to know what's hot, how to get started in antiques, and the best way to buy antiques.
A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.
One can only hope the person you love will make you the best version of yourself.
The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.
Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.
Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.
I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.
It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.
My goal is to be the best TV presenter, the best entertainer, the best singer. I still want to be the best dancer. I want to be the best at everything I do.
We all have ups and downs in our career, and as an actor going through a rough patch, all I can do is keep working as hard as I can and hope for the best.