All Quotes

If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.
‐‐ Patrick Whitesell

If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough.
‐‐ Eric Braeden

If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you've even said a word!
‐‐ Kenny Ortega

If you're able to arrange a trial period with a new hire, do it. It will give both of you a chance to make sure the position is a good fit - and can help you avoid being in the awkward situation of wanting to fire someone three or four weeks in.
‐‐ Kathryn Minshew

If you're able to grow up in Nigeria and go through certain things, you're able to tackle anything around the world because you're able to live wherever, if you can survive in a city like Lagos or Warri or Niger Delta, as far as I'm concerned.
‐‐ Nneka

If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.
‐‐ Maria Sharapova

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.
‐‐ Emma Thompson

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.
‐‐ Nicole Ari Parker

If you're afraid of death, I would say, either fight for your life or come to grips with the fact you may not make it. And in doing that there shouldn't be bitterness. There should be a celebration. There should be an understanding of how lucky you are. That's how I feel.
‐‐ Robby Benson

If you're afraid of inflation, I think - and if you can bring yourself to have a long horizon - and when I say long, I mean ten to 20 years, not the usual ten to 20 weeks - that locking up resources in the ground is a terrific idea.
‐‐ Jeremy Grantham

If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.
‐‐ Bjorn Borg

If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.
‐‐ Kobe Bryant

If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?
‐‐ Jimmy Smits

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.
‐‐ Daryl Hall

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

If you're ahead of your time, who's going to listen? If you're behind the times, it's boring.
‐‐ Tom Smothers

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life.
‐‐ Rick Warren

If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.
‐‐ John Cale

If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.
‐‐ Uzo Aduba

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
‐‐ Mitch Albom

If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.
‐‐ Mia Maestro

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?
‐‐ Philipp Meyer

If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

If you're always worried about being on your phone, then you really are missing out on everything that's happening in front of you.
‐‐ Vanessa Hudgens

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.
‐‐ Tina Fey

If you're an actor, and you're selfish and not strong, it's difficult to maintain a good personal life or a solid career, and I was selfish and had a lot of anger that went way back.
‐‐ Seymour Cassel

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.
‐‐ Kevin Bacon

If you're an actor, go out and act.
‐‐ Simon McBurney

If you're an actor, if you're not writing as well, or you're not going to improv classes, there are long spurts where you're not physically in production - unless you're Channing Tatum at this moment right now - where you need to be doing something.
‐‐ Bret Harrison

If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't matter if the work doesn't provide that creative spark. You want out.
‐‐ Chris Noth

If you're an actor, there's going to be a sense of fantasy about yourself, especially in the celebrity world we live in today. You give the illusion of being in control, sexy, at ease, with never a difficult moment. Those are the basic lies that all celebrities tell. For me, they're the more dangerous lies to come to terms with.
‐‐ Rupert Everett

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.
‐‐ Annette Bening

If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer.
‐‐ Kathryn Prescott

If you're an actress and even one person knows your name, you're lucky.
‐‐ Paula Patton

If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
‐‐ Natalie Portman

If you're an actress, you're always on one diet or another - it's a way of life.
‐‐ Leigh-Allyn Baker

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.
‐‐ James Taylor

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.
‐‐ Bill Nye

If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.
‐‐ Leo Buscaglia

If you're an Afghan village leader in a small town down around Kandahar somewhere, and you know that the footprint is getting smaller for your security, and the Taliban saying don't forget, I'm going to be back real soon, who is your loyalty going to go through?
‐‐ Mike Rogers

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.
‐‐ Chris Cornell

If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.
‐‐ Amy Bloom

If you're an artist and you're on Twitter, you are doomed to mediocrity.
‐‐ Maria Semple

If you're an artist, it's great to have a knowledge of the business and be educated about that, but you've got to keep the balance right between business and artistry; otherwise, you get cynical.
‐‐ Gugu Mbatha-Raw

If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the film, and the film becomes you; you breathe it.
‐‐ Anton Corbijn

If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.
‐‐ FKA twigs

If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
‐‐ Malik Bendjelloul

If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle