Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.
The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.
I've had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do?
If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must always have hope, and when you have children, of course, you have no choice but to work your tail off to try and protect the future for your children. And that is infused by hope in the end.
I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.
You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
Hitchcock's got a very interesting voice; it's a very controlled, measured rhythm that's quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite controlling in its pace. He retained something from his childhood, that London sound, as well as adopting some of the L.A. sounds... All of this helps you create the character.
What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.
I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you.
You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.
I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.
Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.
I got a card in the mail from a close college friend saying that she was proud of me and what I've been doing. It was very sweet and honest. Nobody writes letters anymore, so when you get one in the mail, it feels very special.
Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.
If you were around when 'Them!' or 'Tarantula' came out, those effects were as good as you had ever seen.
The most important thing in life is, if you have a dream, I mean a real good dream, follow it.
You can't run a business just by selling one thing.
When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't.
I've done four videos for older people under my new brand, Prime Time, and the missing link was yoga. I'm aiming it for older people - people who have never worked out or who are recovering from a surgery and have to start slow. It's easy, you can't get hurt, it's very doable, and I've done it in ten-minute segments.
If you consume too much salt, it can cause water retention. When this happens, your body usually responds by raising your blood pressure to push excess fluid and salt out of your system.
If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy... It's you. You're on. You've got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you've got.
I'm happy. I learned. I learned from my mistakes. But when you learn, you see all the results; you look more mature, and you put all the pieces together.
You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
In Tagalog, we call undocumented people 'TNT,' which means tago ng tago, which means 'hiding and hiding.' So that's literally what undocumented means in Tagalog. And that kind of tells you how Filipinos think of this issue, and really any culture, right?
You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.
These days, men's singles is very hard. If you lose the first, you might lose everything.
I think it's a mistake to miss out on joy just because you have pain.
Actors should be better poker players. But I think there's actual skill and crazy guts that you need to play poker - this ability to put all this money on the line inside of that game of cards. There's this whole different set of skills that doesn't apply to acting whatsoever.
One of the biggest differences between you and a traditionally published author is that a self-pubbed author is responsible for everything. Not just writing the book - but cover design, editing, producing, distribution, and publicity as well.
If the lecture is good, then everything is too smooth. That's the same in music: if the performance is too good, you really don't enjoy it, because it just goes by, and you can never penetrate into the heart of it. Sometimes a poor performance is better for enjoyment, because you can look at those things that were wrong and analyze them.
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.
You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.
