When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.
I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.
I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.
I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.
Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
Our work to provide equal opportunities for all Americans should be a year-round mission.
Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.
During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.
Once you learn how to say no, that's about the only place that you'll have control of your work and what you do.
I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.
It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues.
Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration.
When I'm on set filming 'One Tree Hill,' I get up and work out four to five days a week.
Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.
The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.
Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.
I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.
