It takes a strong person to admit he's got problems. Things are bugging you, you've got to get it out. Life is supposed to be peaches and cream, but it doesn't turn out that way. I sometimes found things confusing and sometimes didn't understand how things can be so difficult.
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.
When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.
My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.
You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.
A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music.
Touring is a tough plane to get off the ground, and it takes a lot of hard work and a lot of investments.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Daring to wear something different takes effort.
It takes some discipline and hard work, but relying on credit when things go wrong is a trap.
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it.
It takes guts to get out of the ruts.
In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.
It's hard to make a living doing documentaries. Frankly, if it takes you five years to do a film, and that's the only film you're doing, you're in trouble.
I know what it takes to get to the top.
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes.
After six, seven films, I started to get a little tired. Shooting takes a lot out of you.
I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.
When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.
Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.
When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall. But writing fiction takes gall.
Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
I'm very much in work mode, and that can be very difficult for someone to deal with. I dedicate so much of myself to my work that I even take a back seat to that sometimes. My mother says that Tremaine takes a back seat to Trey Songz.
Time takes away the grief of men.
A lot of people that I started out with, I don't know where they are. I guess it takes tenacity to still be doing this, and luck, but I've been very blessed.
There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
