When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.
The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.
I'm a very anti-vacation person. Because I'm always getting on planes for work, to me, a vacation is when I don't have to get on a plane.
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.
I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way.
You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.
Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.
I personally feel that, for some people, their physique and looks work for them. And when you're deprived of both these aspects, you rely on humour!
The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one.
I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
I've learned not to attach personal feelings to critics who review your work. It's their opinions, their perceptions - it's a very subjective thing, and you can be hurt.
People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.
I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.
I think if a personal connection seems far off, I have to work and find a way to bring it closer to me, or I don't feel grounded.
Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially.
It's inspiring, I think, for women out there to see I'm a regular person. I am the every woman who's struggled with my weight.
