All Quotes

When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.
‐‐ Charlize Theron

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.
‐‐ Michael Shannon

When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again.
‐‐ Natalie Massenet

When I'm working, I look forward to weekends. Film sets give your time a structure; otherwise, one day can run into another. I often find myself in unusual locations, so Friday nights I might head out with some of the cast and crew to explore the town.
‐‐ Thomas Brodie-Sangster

When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.
‐‐ Anne Enright

When I'm working, I'm obsessively working.
‐‐ Penny Marshall

When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
‐‐ Taiye Selasi

When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

When I'm working, I'm working and I'm focused on that day's work.
‐‐ Stephen Amell

When I'm working, I need to be pretty disciplined, but I do like to enjoy my food. I like to keep it fresh and wholesome. Preparing your own food can be a great way to unwind.
‐‐ Julia Stiles

When I'm working, I try to be serious and rest where I can. I just mark in rehearsals. I still train. I warm up. And I still take lessons from this unbelievable teacher in New York, Joan Lader. I try to be stretched and ready to go.
‐‐ Max von Essen

When I'm working I wear so much makeup, and when I'm out with my friends I wear makeup, so sometimes at school I'm just like, 'Today is not much of a makeup day - foundation, chapstick - done.'
‐‐ Laura Marano

When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'
‐‐ Damian Lewis

When I'm working in television, I've learned you've got to work fast. You don't have time to rehearse; you don't have time to just mess around. You've got to move quickly. So I pick that up from that world, and I also pick up the idea of development of character and development of situations.
‐‐ Kenny Leon

When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
‐‐ Yann Tiersen

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.
‐‐ Joan Didion

When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect - basically, a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.
‐‐ Doug Liman

When I'm working on a movie, I'm in my trailer playing guitar. And then on the road, I read scripts and think of... it just keeps both fires burning. I kind of need both.
‐‐ Bryan Greenberg

When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.
‐‐ Richard King

When I'm working on a novel, I generally do write every day, but in between those marathons, I take breaks. My brain needs time to recharge.
‐‐ Marie Brennan

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.
‐‐ Dean Koontz

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.
‐‐ Carl Hiaasen

When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it doesn't take a lot of soul searching - and it's a dark, almost sinister place. Stone Sour is more the way I've always written. It's a different tone.
‐‐ Corey Taylor

When I'm working on comics, I have to give myself a million deadlines, or I'd never get anything done. Comics are just so hard to make - I find it very difficult to motivate myself.
‐‐ Jessica Abel

When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.
‐‐ Marissa Moss

When I'm working on my characters, that's something I pay a lot of attention to: how their body works, how they move, how they articulate.
‐‐ Astrid Berges-Frisbey

When I'm working, on sets or stages, my contracts specify in the rider that no plastic bottles be used. When I'm playing with my band, we all use metal and non-plastic containers for drinking to be ecologically sensitive and show others that this is the way to go.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
‐‐ Anne Tyler

When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is cutting the movie, and we've shot the scene, the director is not looking at the visual effects.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

When I'm working with German audiences, I will call on my Rilke and Goethe in the original.
‐‐ David Whyte

When I'm working with improv people, I give them the green light to just bring it and try things.
‐‐ Jon Favreau

When I'm working with Red One, we all have to do everything, from making sets and costumes to tearing tickets. Forget about craft services! So when I get on a film set, it's a thrill to be just working as an actor.
‐‐ Joe Dinicol

When I'm writing a book, I don't have any responsibility to anyone. I'm solitary. I'm writing on my own. I write by hand. And I write every day. I mean, it's part of my daily discipline.
‐‐ Patti Smith

When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.
‐‐ Judy Blume

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.
‐‐ J. C. Chandor

When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.
‐‐ Tony Kushner

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.
‐‐ John Phillips Marquand

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.
‐‐ Ruth Ozeki

When I'm writing a novel, one of the things I do is get big poster boards. They're actually canvases that artists use. And I keep all the characters' names on them. If you write a big novel, there's a lot of characters.
‐‐ Alexi Zentner

When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do.
‐‐ John Scalzi

When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.
‐‐ Ruth Ozeki

When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.
‐‐ Keri Hilson

When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.
‐‐ John Darnielle

When I'm writing a song, I try to be the character.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
‐‐ Shane MacGowan

When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.
‐‐ Luke Bryan