I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.
It's hard enough as a kid these days to feel normal and just try to fit in. To be a diabetic is just a dramatic thing to go through.
Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.
Value oriented is the worst thing that you get from your hard process. That's not a good finale, that's really worst finale
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.
It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.
I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.
Hard as things seem today, they will be better in the next day if you choose to serve the Lord this day with your whole heart.
Sometimes the beauty of something is created by time and experiences, and those things are often more precious to those who look hard enough, and value the burnishings.
My journey is about believing that people will actually stick around. It's a hard thing to believe when you don't have a prototype for it. I've had to develop that for myself.
As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.
There are so many effects and so many things that are done digitally now that it's so hard for the director to really control the process, because there are more and more experts that come in.
I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.
If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though.
When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.
I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.
Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.
To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.
The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.
I think a lot of kids are interested in two science subjects: dinosaurs and aliens. The reason is almost genetic; we're hard-wired to be interested in things that might be a little dangerous.
