Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.
What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.
When you have a model that's worked very well, it's very hard to change.
When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
Snow is like a manic pixie dream girl: fun and whimsical when you encounter it only through the barrier of a movie screen - but absolute misery to have to put up with in real life.
After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.
I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.
There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around.
In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.
You really have to understand this isn't a business where you sit in the back room and do calculations - you have to be very concerned about employees and customers, because that's really what's going to bring you success.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
The very first audition, you just go in and sing. The second one, they give you this sort of cheapy, Walmart-looking puppet - before they give you the $6,500 'Avenue Q' puppet.
You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes.
You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
And I'd like to believe that's true, you know, kind of showing gay people in this kind of light and - where it's not about that, it's just about the characters for the first time, like those shows were.
Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear.
If you know a lot about something and apply that information to a vote that matches your policy preferences, your opinion quality is high.
If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.
When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.
It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.
Manage the heat, let the meat cook, and you'll get fantastic results.
Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.
You just suddenly think that there's something quite childish about acting. Basically, it's pretending, isn't it? It's good fun and I enjoy it, but it's a funny way of making a living, particularly when you make a very good wage, as I've been fortunate enough to do.
Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.
Dogs just need you and love, that's all.
One night at a party, a really drunk guy came up to me and said, 'Whoa you look like Yves Saint Laurent' because I was wearing a turtleneck. I'd love to track that guy down and tell him that he gave pretty good casting advice.
The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.
Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.
When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.
