The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
Inevitably any series that goes on too long will reach a point where it starts struggling for ideas, so I've always been really aware of getting out while the going's good.
Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.
Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.
The thing about all good horror movies is that the fans expect a couple of inside jokes. Maybe I'm supposed to be saying how terrified I was while making it, but it was really fun.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'
I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'
I love horror movies. I mean, who doesn't like a good horror movie every once in a while? It's fun to get scared.
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.
Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.
While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.
While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.
Potentially, you do inhabit different worlds. And while there are no specific roles I'm burning to play, as far as acting in the future goes, I'd really like to have done searing work.
And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.
While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.
