Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.
We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other than the story.
If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.
I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.
I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.
I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.
The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.
It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer than what we call the renaissance, which was a resur...
Does this story have a happy ending?" Bobby asked. "There is no such thing as an ending," she said. "Good things come out of bad things and bad things come out of good things, but it always continues. It's as in life. Books are life. There is just th...
Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and sa...
Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
Don't ignore the small things -- the kite flies because of its tail.
When you say one thing, the clever person understands three.
Never to forsake your ideals is better than dreaming of great things.
