If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
Once you find your dream, risk everything to make it come true.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
I'm always fascinated by the 'who would you like to work with' question. I've never really had an answer; it only really comes as you work with them.
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.
The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.
I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.
You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.
Throughout Ireland, there's a brilliant community of filmmakers and actors, and I guess there was always a lure to do some work in the place where I come from.
My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.
A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.
I have to work at tunes to get them to come out. Sometimes I'll sit there for four or five hours and get absolutely nothing.
I believe that anyone can be what they want to be; it just comes down to hard work.
I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.
I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.
As always, work with your figure; draping, pleats, and proportion can work miracles when it comes to hiding flaws and enhancing assets.
There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck.
In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.
Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard.
I have people say, 'I'll come to work for you for free,' and I tell my employees they have to compete with that.
