You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.
The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.
The 'Being Human' people were really cool and let me improvise. They had such a good working atmosphere. It was a cool set-up and a really good environment to be in.
Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.
Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.
I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.
It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.
No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the trash and wash our clothes... is essential to our overall happiness and well-being.
You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
During long car rides to the set, after I study my script, I go onto my iPad to read books and play games.
If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?
My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?
I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.
