You're living your life the entire time in both worlds - it's not like they say, 'Action' and you're like, 'Here we go, we're in this thing,' because that's where bad acting comes from.
You can't slow the game here. It's grass, it's always going to be fast.
A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.
You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.
You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.
Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
I think that if you get too close to the character, if you do too much historical research, you may find yourself defending your view of a character against the author's view, and I think that's terribly dangerous.
I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician.
Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily.
Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?
Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.
Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important.
There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.
I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.
No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely.
But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.
If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.
You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.
I don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.
Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for.
You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.
In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.
If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years.
You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
I think every time you work with another collaborator, there's an adjustment process where you figure out the other person's strengths, and that has definitely happened for me.
Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.
There's no such thing as median income; there's a curve, and it really matters what side of the curve you're on. There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.
Don't ever put anything past kids. They will surprise you in the best ways.
A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
