All Quotes

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.
‐‐ Reba McEntire

When you're a Viking, you never know when you're going to get the axe.
‐‐ Alyssa Sutherland

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.
‐‐ Shirley Knight

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
‐‐ Patricia Richardson

When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.
‐‐ Rainbow Rowell

When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.
‐‐ Olivia Wilde

When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.
‐‐ Dave Morris

When you're a writer on a show, your job is to write in the show runner's voice, really.
‐‐ Noah Hawley

When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff. But when a book comes out, it's just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
‐‐ Veronica Roth

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
‐‐ Brian Moore

When you're a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. That's where I want to be judged.
‐‐ Roger Avary

When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.
‐‐ Mike Posner

When you're a young actor, and you're really fighting to have your place in the world - for me, anyway - it took a mental focus and energy and striving. It took a long time. And it was my whole life.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo

When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.
‐‐ Felicity Jones

When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.
‐‐ Kiefer Sutherland

When you're a young boy, you're looking at older men for role modelling. Before I loved De Niro, I loved Clint Eastwood; I loved John Wayne. And James Bond.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.
‐‐ Janet McTeer

When you're a young kid and you're gay, you're out there on your own. And you're trying to figure this thing out. And your parents typically aren't gay.
‐‐ James McGreevey

When you're a young man, a young boy, all you want to be is that action hero; you want to be the James Bond, and I got to do that for a bit, and that was great.
‐‐ Matthew Lewis

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
‐‐ Laurence Olivier

When you're a young person, the solace one can get from popular music is something I just have tremendous nostalgia for, affection for. I still have it.
‐‐ Greg Mottola

When you're a young talent, and you want to launch your brand, you always have tons of questions: Where should I produce? Should I launch a second line? Should I do shoes, accessories? If you have someone who can coach you and give you advice and help you find the right supplier, it's a big help.
‐‐ Delphine Arnault

When you're a younger company, you struggle, struggle, struggle with, 'How are we going to pay the bills, and how are we going to hire people, and how are we going to get a bigger office?' Just managing the company is so hard.
‐‐ Shane Smith

When you're about to get married, and then you're not, it's all a big shock. You think, 'Well, okay, so I'm never going to lead a totally conventional life now.'
‐‐ Rosamund Pike

When you're acting and directing, you're standing there acting with another actor, and you're trying to do your performance, and at the same time you're watching their performance, and making sure the lights are in the right place, and if the person is wearing the right wardrobe. All these things are going on in your head.
‐‐ Kevin Heffernan

When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them.
‐‐ Jared Harris

When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

When you're acting in a scene, you're focused on doing the scene. You can't break character and go, 'Oh my God, I love what you're doing!'
‐‐ Melissa McBride

When you're acting, it's a fantasy already; maybe it's the costumes - I love it. It's so fun.
‐‐ Meghan Ory

When you're acting, it's all about you and the person in front of you, and I think in life we forget to apply the same technique, and we get caught up in the panic of what we're trying to do - how overwhelmingly daunting the task of trying to become an actor is.
‐‐ Mike Colter

When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
‐‐ Vincent D'Onofrio

When you're acting, you're a person. When you're modeling, you're a hanger.
‐‐ Analeigh Tipton

When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.
‐‐ Tamsin Egerton

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
‐‐ Ted Kotcheff

When you're adapting, you are working on someone else's problem that they have already solved. The work has been fine-tuned and read countless times, and you're just arriving at the end and taking what you want, so of course it is the regal way to moviemaking. Plays are just the ideal scripts - the structure is there and waiting for you.
‐‐ Xavier Dolan

When you're adopted, no matter what, you've got issues with unconditional love. And you find out you're the product of the worst situation for a young girl to be in and start her life, and I'm so grateful that my birth mom made the decision she made. She came from a rough situation.
‐‐ Rodney Atkins

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

When you're allowing the Executive Branch to deprive somebody of a constitutional liberty without any process, that is something that affects all Americans because that's a precedent that can be used.
‐‐ Ron DeSantis

When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas.
‐‐ Jean-Louis Trintignant

When you're an actor in grade school, high school, college, whatever, you start to realize what you're really good at, what you're kinda good at, what you're okay at, and you start to compartmentalize. But if you know yourself and what you're capable of, it's just a matter of opportunity.
‐‐ Bryan Cranston

When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.
‐‐ Jamie Foxx

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.
‐‐ Josh Peck

When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes.
‐‐ Jill Hennessy

When you're an actor, you can be hindered by your own narcissism.
‐‐ Amanda Peet

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

When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.
‐‐ Kate Fleetwood

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
‐‐ Tanc Sade