Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving.
I want people to say, 'She is really sweet and kind.' Anyone can work hard enough and be 'pretty.' Not many people are nice nowadays.
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
The added work load of a degree has made me focus a lot more when I am in work.
The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
What is a better way to prove that your methods work than by winning? I have proved that my methods work.
I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.
I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.
It's like a kitchen, acting. Put a chef in a kitchen and they will have different recipes. Whatever your recipe, what works for you won't work for another.
Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.
I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.
I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.
Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.
I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.
I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.
We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.
I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't sell.
At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.
