You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I'd feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that's the trigger.
You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
I used to have this illusion that time and remote areas prepare you for the world. Our moms used to think that kind of thing. Well, it doesn't prepare you for the world at all!
If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.
I really like being on set when you've all moved on a job because it makes you bond very quickly. You're all out of your time and comfort zone, so you kind of only have each other.
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or performed can turn a normal human being into a Dexter.
You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
When you can't stop what you're doing long enough to improve it, you will never stop what you are doing.
But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.
As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.
I just wanna thank all those amazing Internet bloggers out there that hate me day-to-day. I love you! You rock!
I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.
When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.
Each gig is brilliant and fun. When it becomes a routine, we'll take a break. There's no point in doing it if you don't enjoy it.
For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?
I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the '30s and '40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know?
Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that.
Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.
Every job you do, you gain more experience. You never stop learning.
To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.
To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That's a great experience, but as a woman, especially, you've played a lot of idealized characters. So when you've got someone who has weaknesses as well as strengths, that's interesting.
I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.
I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.
Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair.
It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.
The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.
Now with tabloids and seeing people walking around in sweats pumping gas you're like, 'Okay, they're just like us.'
I can show bands how to produce themselves. In the same way, many bands think you can't make it without some fat cat in London or New York to manage you. That's just crap. All you need is someone a bit older than you with a bit of business nous whom you trust.
