One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.

There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.

I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.

It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

Today many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

I think, with certain characters, you have to listen. Sometimes, listening can be funnier: the thing you don't say is the one-liner. That's the ying to the yang.

Sharon Shinn is a lover of words and a builder of worlds. She makes science-fiction seem like fantasy. Her characters jump off the page, finding their way under your skin and into your heart.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it.

I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

The introvert's anthem for not wanting to hang out is 'It's not you; it's me.

I'd like to give anyone else a go at being scrutinised. Daily. It's not easy.

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

My parents decided - because they were not going to teach us anything Jewish at home - to send both me and my sister to a Jewish primary school. So I went to Kerem Primary School in Hampstead Garden Suburb. But, for me, that school really didn't work that well.

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.

Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.

I sing 'I Have Confidence' from 'The Sound of Music' as Judy Garland, Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Elaine Stritch and Julie Andrews - each alternating lines.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.

Blood is the leitmotif of 'Black Swan.'

I'm appreciated more abroad. In America, Japan... and in the United Kingdom.