The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'
Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me.
I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall.
One cannot compare Skoda with the Volkswagen brand. Volkswagen is the world's biggest brand selling over four million cars a year, so there is really nothing to compare.
The biggest audience for Off Broadway is mostly coming in on a train - either Upper East Siders or Metro-North. I go to the theater, and everyone around me is over 50. How interested will they be in my kind of work?
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.
You think when you start getting jobs that it'll get easier, but that's the biggest lie ever. It gets harder. You have to put in more work. I wish it were the casting couch days because it'd be a lot easier!
The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.
Dare to challenge your current view of your world.
Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.
We all know what needs to be done - it's the doing it that is the challenge!
My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.
It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.
I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.
Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
Embrace courageously the challenging beauty of life.
It is your life, enthusiastically accept the challenge.
I wanted to do this properly, but I look at you and I forget...
Comedy is a comfortable yet challenging place for me. I will always feel an inner pressure to do my best and to improve.
