What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really.
Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.
Panic does not help, even if you are unable to answer. Try to ask questions to the interviewers as well and it should be impressive enough.
I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams as well.
I went to a public school in Oak Harbor, Ohio, and it's a very rural community. I was an artist kid, and I just didn't fit in very well.
He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.
I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.
I think the world of Dave Griffin. I worked with him in Phoenix, got to know him very well, and consider him a friend.
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
I stand in the way of no one's ambition. I only ask that no one stand in the way of the people's well being and the nation's progress.
If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.
Vision attained through mindful thinking, imagination and purpose reveals both the forest and the trees – as well as a path forward.
I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
It's hard to pinpoint why all of a sudden a group of Australian films will be doing well and why they perhaps are better made than some from the past.
I don't want the Latino community to think I think the reason Latino films are not doing well is because of us. It is not fully our responsibility.
You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.
