In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.
In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.
I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.
Don't focus on who let you down. Appreciate who lifted you up. Don't focus on who darkened your days. Appreciate who brightened them.
If you go down through the horizon of a black hole, at the center you don't find a tunnel that leads you to some other place in the universe.
I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.
I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.
To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.
We tune down a full step when we play but I never miss a note. I've learned how to keep my voice.
It's so much easier when you're a size two or three to just slip on anything. But a big girl, sometimes you've got to strap some stuff down!
The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.
People with too high an opinion of themselves get cut down; people with too low an opinion of themselves get pushed around....
I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.
I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down here, would that be considered cheating?
When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.
Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
I bring a poofy gray down jacket with me wherever I go. It's meant for winter, but I use it most in the summer, when everyone cranks up the air-conditioning.
I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.
When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
