I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.
It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.
Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.
Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.
I started working on a TV show in Australia, straight out of high school, so I missed the whole university experience.
'The Girlfriend Experience' was definitely the break-out. When it came out, I started getting other opportunities.
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
We're all in trouble, and we all need to sort of pick up the pieces and start to exercise more and really be careful with the food.
The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
Well, when I moved to England I was making a lot of personal adjustments because I was getting married and starting a family, that sort of thing.
Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.
As soon as you get traded, you kind of start thinking where you're going to live, your family, you have to pack.
If I started being braggy, my family would be like, 'Shut up, Maisie! Who cares? Get off the sofa.'
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
My oldest son started to like 'South Park' and 'Family Guy,' so we'd watch together so I could spend time with him.
About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.
I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.
The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.
Look at your business and the activities that you undertake. Then, start to think about not just your economic concerns, but about social and environmental impacts that businesses have.
