My job as an actor is to try to do what the director wants me to do. I'm going to do everything I can to incorporate that note and make it work. If it doesn't work, I'll try this kind of thing, and "How do you feel about that?" If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy. Even when I was younger, there were times when you have to find a way to make it work for both of you.
In trying times, I like to remember that you have to keep walking because you can't see what is around the corner.
Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.
I always tweet about where we're at. Since I'm performing at amphitheaters, I'll try to run up and down the stairs and across the field.
I'm one of those people that loves to try everything.
The hardest thing about being an actor, and especially when you're a woman trying to also have a family and a relationship, is to maintain some sort of normalcy. With television, you might not be home a lot, but you have a routine.
I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.
Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.
I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.
I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.
Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.
It's difficult to make the interesting feature films that don't fit easily into a genre, even on modest budgets. It's tough to get those films made, but I'd rather try to get those films made than compromise too much.
If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.
When I hear Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come', it frustrates me because no matter how hard I try, I can never be that good.
If I'm a CEO and I say, 'Misogyny will not be tolerated', that's a more powerful statement than 'It is my sincere hope and our intention to eradicate misogyny from this company'. Sometimes saying things in that more categorical form, has a real function. Although, if you dig beneath it, it is actually one of J.L. Austin's illocutionary acts; you're trying to make something happen rather than describing something already happened. The fact that it has the grammatical form of a description is fine.
There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!
WikiLeaks is literally the worst place in the world to try and plant a false story.
In the justice system, we say there must be open justice where there is to be justice. The judged while trying must themselves be tried before the public.
I am forever a romantic. I try to bring that into my work. I try not to be fooled by romance. Or work.
It never ceases to amaze me how many folks jump right over "I'll try" to "I can't.
I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's brilliant.
I wouldn't miss the fame. I don't go out hunting for it. I try to avoid it and to slip into the background wherever I go.
How do you feel?” she asked, trying to fluff his pillow. “Other than terrible, I mean.” He moved his head slightly to the side. It seemed to be a sickly interpretation of a shrug. “Of course you’re feeling terrible,” she clarified, “but is there any change? More terrible? Less terrible?” He made no response. “The same amount of terrible?
Anthony sneezed and pushed them aside. "Mother, I am trying to have a conversation with the duke." Violet looked at Simon. "Do you want to have this conversation with my son?" "Not particularly." "Fine, then. Anthony, be quiet.
Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.
