Every scene is a challenge. There are technical challenges, but often it's the simplest challenge where you feel a sense of achievement when you pull it off.
My own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight.
I think there are people watching me, and if ever I manage to save £1,000 there's someone saying, 'Oh, we'll invent a tax to take that off him.'
Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.
Lies don't fit snugly into disguises. Eventually the cloak falls off and you're left staring at the naked truth which is always an uncomfortable situation.
In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures.
I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.
Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx.
It's dangerous to write people off just because they've been arrested.
I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.
I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.
When I left 'Downton Abbey,' it hadn't yet taken off and become the phenomenon that it is, to this day. That all happened after I left. But, it was fabulous to be a part of it and to be a part of the cast. We had an absolute ball!
The Limbaugh Theorem was not about me giving me credit for something. It was simply sharing with you when the light went off.
It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.
Don't waste yer' breath kid. Explainin' anything to that one? It's like tryin' ta' slap the dumb off a retard... -George Foster
I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.
Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.
The real you, the inner you, loves and adores you; but you cut off that power when you think badly of yourself.
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
I never thought of myself as a movie star. I'm just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top - and never fell off.
But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite.
