If I'm going to work, hopefully I have a late call time, and can hang out with Rain and our nanny until we shoot.
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the sa...
I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.
I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.
I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.
I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in their community.
As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.
Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work on something and it's not going anywhere, you can go to school and there's a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which...
Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.
Stevie Wonder doing 'We Can Work It Out' by the Beatles is one of my favorite records of all time.
Rush has done some top-notch quality work, and we're very, very pleased with them. We really enjoy working with them. They are on time and on budget, which makes me happy.
I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and re...
Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
You don't really have time to watch TV if you work on TV.
My favorite TV show of all time is 'The Wire,' which has the feeling of a project-based show. You draw in people from disparate parts of the world, and they have to work together to achieve a goal.
When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.
I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.
Actors spend most of their time out of work, so I actually spend more time making furniture. The thing about furniture that's much better than acting is that it's just me. There's no director, no script - the concept is me, unless a client wants some...
People don't understand how much time and work it takes to make somebody laugh, and how hard it is to write a script, to put together the story, the characters. When everyone laughs simultaneously, there's no greater feeling.
