If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.
I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.
As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.
I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that.
It's funny. I did give birth to an alien on 'The X-Files.' And it's just the teaser, so I'm dead before we even get into the episode.
I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.
I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.
My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I'm not holding onto a dream. I'm holding onto my life.
You don't work with spiders very long before you start noticing how important silk is to their life and just how special that is for spiders.
At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.
Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.
I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
