I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!
It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate.
Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.
I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.
I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.
I went to school at Colorado State. I finished my degree in pre-medicine and nutrition with aspirations of actually going to graduate school in medicine, which I didn't.
I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.
If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.
I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.
It takes a while to get a movie together, and they don't start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.
The Book of Mormon is in absolute harmony from start to finish with other sacred scriptures. There is not a doctrine taught in it that does not harmonize with the teachings of Jesus Christ.
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.
I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.
I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
You finish a project and start looking for something that might interest you. A lot of the films I've made are a reaction to something I've done right before.
What's exciting about watching a movie, when it's finished, is you sometimes you don't recognize yourself, and that's when I'm really proud.
And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.
I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.
I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?
