Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.
By and large, I think that comics work seriously hard. Many have other jobs as well, plus you never really switch off, so you're always working.
I'm the type of guy that feels pressure when I have to order dinner. I'm just that type of guy but that's my fuel. I work well with pressure.
It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.
The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today.
Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.
I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.
I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.
I find if my body feels well and I exercise regularly, I think better, work better and feel better.
There are people who've enjoyed my work in the theater, and they let me know that it was special for them. I'm not going to say, 'Well, you should have seen me as Gandalf!'
I was either told or I realised on my own terms that if you're going to be star-struck with the people you're working with, you're not going to work very well.
What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.
I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.
Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.
On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.
In my films that I've directed, and my work in commercials and videos, I've rarely used handheld. It's just not something I'm drawn to, but I've seen it done very well.
When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.
You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left.
