Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.
I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test.
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue an acting career. I did get in, though, and that was that.
When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if they like what they see, they listen.
I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.
You get in trouble, you have to evaluate: Is it worth getting into trouble again? It's a lot easier to make that decision when you have a career at stake.
You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.
I don't have that 'OMG, I gotta get married' thing! If it happens, it happens, but it's never been like, 'Oooo, I need to do that!'
You don't get John Gotti to testify against his driver. You get the driver to testify against John Gotti.
Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way.
That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity.
You have not got birth here neither you will get death....only thing you will get here is experience.
Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.
What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.
There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.
Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.
