I always get everyone prepared so there aren't so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we're shooting that day. It's time-consuming, but it reduces the chances of 'misunderstandings' on set.
Tony Scott
Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX On a film set, for me, there's so much more time to process what's going on than there is on... TAYLOR SCHILLING Comedies are just never that expensive quite frankly. They really aren't. We aren't doing gr... TODD PHILLIPS It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you... NATALIE PORTMAN In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start sh... BEN WHISHAW If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven ... DANIELA PESTOVA When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set... JACKIE CHAN There's not enough time in each day to really focus enough attention on any one thing, but I'... ALEX GUARNASCHELLI About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN I've learned after so many years in this business that nothing is set in stone until you're ... KALEY CUOCO I think it's really important that I'm not the only model in the world that goes through per... GIGI HADID Sometimes you don't want to get married too much to a lot of rehearsing, I feel, when it comes t... SEBASTIAN STAN One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don'... DENNIS QUAID I stole a little snow globe from the set of the first 'Pitch Perfect' that I don't think... ANNA KENDRICK When you're doing a film, you're on a set and you have retakes and you have time to get it r... MEGAN FOX Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's e... JOHN GREEN What is a struggle is that acting isn't a place where you go to work and you do that thing. Ther... ADAM DRIVER I think there are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, wome... KATIE ASELTON There is no free lunch, so if you're playing with the big train set - on big movies - it's a... JON FAVREAU The last day of shooting, there were tears. It was this family that's grown together over the ye... DAVID HEYMAN When you're working with a low budget, the most expensive time is the time spent on the set. The... GEORGE A. ROMERO I love the entire process of being on the set and being able to create a character. It's so much... SHERRI SHEPHERD Everyone at 'CSI' has been so great to work with, and so great in terms of scheduling. There... ELISABETH SHUE I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train a... LILY RABE I think everyone has dreams, and it's just how you go about pursuing that. And I think anybody c... JOSIE LOREN I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it ... BRYAN COGMAN One thing I've always been taught at the defensive end is you hit first. In life, you throw the ... DRAYMOND GREEN On 'Late Night,' it's like we're all in on the joke. That's what I wanted it to ... JIMMY FALLON I don't know, I always had an active dream life, and there's something so profound and wonde... WES CRAVEN It's such a high-pressure form of live entertainment that I found, once I got out there, being o... DEAN AMBROSE The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we... BILL KURTIS I think the most fun part about working on 'Good Luck Charlie' is spending time with everyon... BRADLEY STEVEN PERRY When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more politi... ADAM MCKAY I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES It's a 12-hour cooking class for me on the set of 'Chopped.' You'd think I'd get... TED ALLEN I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN For the most part, the first thing people I meet that aren't Mormon say is, 'I grew up with ... BRANDON FLOWERS On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they'... LINDSAY LOHAN When I set my eyes on the gold at the world championships, I was able to maintain that focus that wh... CARMEN MARTON As an actor, some of my favorite things to work on are night exterior scenes. Any time that we'r... TAYLOR KINNEY I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels l... ELIAS KOTEAS I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn'... JERRY HALL When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major change... SATYAJIT RAY But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. Th... JEANNE TRIPPLEHORN When I first did 'Moby,' I didn't realize how taxing it would be. I was climbing fifty f... STEPHEN COSTELLO The pace is different on a film set. It's slightly slower, allowing for a little more wiggle roo... JODI BALFOUR PlayStation 3 is another form of meditation. Come on, when you're on set, all day? That's wh... STEVE ZAHN Being on a Michael Bay set is... well, it's the only set I've ever been on. But I would imag... ROSIE HUNTINGTON-WHITELEY There's a time in everyone's career where you go, 'Ah, this is hard - how long am I goin... MO FARAH When Carpenter was shooting 'Vampires' in New Mexico when I was living there, I desperately ... DREW GODDARD 'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, eve... ELLEN MUTH Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go... PATRICK NESS To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, o... KATEY SAGAL The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversatio... KRISTEN STEWART There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano!... CHARLES HAZLEWOOD Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometime... BRUCE WEBER It's something that I love about this business and that scares me about this business, but in a ... CANDICE ACCOLA When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't ... HENRY ROLLINS If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're g... DONALD TRUMP We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reas... RIVER PHOENIX I do look better on TV. In real life, I look scruffy and pale, and I get the worst kind of recogniti... TOM WARD I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL It's changing a bit, but the thing in LA is everyone is either in the industry, or knows someone... CATHERINE BELL To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot ... C. THOMAS HOWELL We really spend a lot of time on building relationships. And so when everyone is like, 'How do y... KARA SWISHER So many people are insanely busy nowadays, and it's easy to say, 'Ah, I'll workout tomor... DEREK JETER I don't do a lot when I'm in Gascony. I swim and play the odd game of golf, but mainly I sit... TERRY WOGAN The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then i... NAT FAXON I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I hav... FAITH RINGGOLD I think it's a shame that the day somebody hears about a shooting, the first thing they think ab... STEVE SCALISE I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you th... AARON TVEIT When you're on set all day, and you don't look people in the eye, it's really relaxing. ... RYAN CARTWRIGHT The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, t... RACHELLE LEFEVRE There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So th... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Every day that you're on set is a new day to learn something. Every time you're there, there... ISAAC HEMPSTEAD WRIGHT I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and i... MEGHAN O'ROURKE Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the 'I'm a Fraud&... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA It sounds really cheesy, but I've just really been so focused on making sure that I am nice to e... GIGI HADID I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobod... TRICK DADDY If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time i... TAYLOR SCHILLING I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, ... ALAN BALL There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out o... CATE BLANCHETT If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I... BENJAMIN WALKER It's always on everyone's list, like, 'What's New Orleans like?' I think people ... SUNG KANG I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 pe... ZOOEY DESCHANEL 'Blues Clues' has been incredibly good to me, and I've been working so hard on it for so... STEVE BURNS I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up ... JOHN CLEESE And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the tr... ANN ROMNEY One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There... MARGARET CHO I feel like going to class every morning is so humbling. You're always working to improve, and y... MISTY COPELAND
More Tony Scott
I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information... TONY SCOTT We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business ... TONY SCOTT At one time, I would actually ride around to movie theaters to check the lines. TONY SCOTT A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it. TONY SCOTT Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the... TONY SCOTT I have a short attention span. TONY SCOTT New York is vertical - all skyscrapers. TONY SCOTT GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that ... TONY SCOTT If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always ... TONY SCOTT The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear... TONY SCOTT I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing... TONY SCOTT The world is sick of big IT things that don't work. TONY SCOTT The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in yo... TONY SCOTT Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. TONY SCOTT We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight. TONY SCOTT Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England. TONY SCOTT There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Rom... TONY SCOTT I make a movie because it's something that inspires me. TONY SCOTT All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours. TONY SCOTT Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed. TONY SCOTT Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying... TONY SCOTT What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters. TONY SCOTT How is sky the limit?...When it can't be touched SCOTT Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But wh... TONY BENNETT A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action... TONY ROBBINS The reason my kids like McDonald's is that they always know what they're going to get. It... TONY DUNGY People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them. TONY ROBBINS As an engineer, you learn there is a solution to every problem. It may take you a while, but eventua... TONY CARDENAS Be a doer and not a critic. TONY BLAIR It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. TONY ROBBINS It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else. TONY BENNETT Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. TONY ROBBINS How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to? TONY ROBBINS There's always a way - if you're committed. TONY ROBBINS Live with passion! TONY ROBBINS For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. TONY ROBBINS I love chocolate, and I love ice cream. That's a double whammy there. I constantly have to check... TONY CARDENAS The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. TONY ROBBINS Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast a... TONY BENN My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong allian... TONY BLAIR If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they ... TONY ROBBINS The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better ... TONY ROBBINS Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to ... TONY ROBBINS It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. TONY ROBBINS For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It... TONY IOMMI My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faith... TONY BLAIR For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office. TONY CURTIS If I was called back to 'Grand Budapest 2,' a prequel or whatever, I'm there. I'm th... TONY REVOLORI The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeli... TONY SNOW Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change? Mormon Mother: Well it has... TONY KUSHNER Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters. TONY BENN At school, we'd studied the Romans and the Saxons, and I was fascinated by it all. So I made my ... TONY BRADMAN There was a time when watching a cartoon was a nurturing experience. You would watch a Warner Bros. ... TONY DANZA I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an e... TONY PARSONS Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece o... TONY TAN A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing. TONY LEMA The studio are making a lot of good noises about 'Bunker Hill;' so it would be great if that... TONY CURRAN I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it'... TONY BENN All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who... TONY ABBOTT For most of the Latinos in our nation, merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable would mean one c... TONY CARDENAS We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that r... TONY STEWART I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when... TONY HILLERMAN You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Gre... TONY KUSHNER To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspir... TONY DORSETT I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Br... TONY RANDALL If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth. TONY ABBOTT I'm a born-again Christian, but that's not the coat that I wear. It's just how my heart&... TONY VINCENT Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going... TONY DUNGY Every dressing room should have a few proper bottles of bubbly. TONY VINCENT I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any carto... TONY KUSHNER Babies have millions of brain cells. They are like light bulbs waiting to be turned on. Don't wa... TONY BUZAN Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equale... TONY CAMPOLO The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like ... TONY BENN Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you:
education, education and education. TONY BLAIR I knew there were all kinds of interesting things going on at Google, but now that I've seen the... TONY FADELL Because the perpetrators typically have little understanding as to why they are sexually assaulting ... TONY MARTENS Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling TONY DELISO Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens TONY DELISO Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your fu... TONY CAMPOLO We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. TONY BENN The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians. TONY BENN I did not enter the labor Party forty-seven years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr. Mori, Dr.... TONY BENN Learning how to learn is life's most important skill. TONY BUZAN The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right ti... TONY BUZAN I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right. TONY BLAIR To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire... TONY DORSETT Failure is not fatal; victory is not success. TONY RICHARDSON My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in th... TONY MARTIN I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out an... TONY BENNETT In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice. TONY ALESANDRA It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangero... TONY BENN A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference ... TONY BENN Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to ob... TONY BUZAN It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've... TONY HANCOCK Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment... TONY BENN All war represents a failure of diplomacy. TONY BENN I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. TONY BENNETT When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: ... TONY CAMPOLO One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation. TONY BRIGHT Be smart, be intelligent and be informed. TONY ALESANDRA Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with y... TONY DORSETT All war represents a failure of diplomacy TONY BENN I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed. TONY ARATA Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a waste of dreaming, and dre... TONY ARATA Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to e... TONY SCHWARTZ The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also le... TONY GOLDWYN The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those... TONY JUDT I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more ti... TONY BENN In ramp skating, there's this guy Alex Perelson who's really coming into his own and doing s... TONY HAWK What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus... TONY CAMPOLO I plan to work my utmost for Singaporeans, whatever be their political affiliation. The presidency i... TONY TAN People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christia... TONY DUNGY I started skating when I was about 10 years old. It was in an alleyway. I picked up my brother's... TONY HAWK During every race, an ambulance trails the riders around the course. You know that sometimes you are... TONY MCCOY When I was around eleven or twelve, my board got hung up on the top of a bowl, and I got a concussio... TONY HAWK From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based so... TONY CAMPOLO Winning is an amazing feeling. You don't get that in business; you don't get that in many th... TONY FERNANDES I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out an... TONY BENNETT Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone e... TONY ABBOTT Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty... TONY SNOW But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was M... TONY KUSHNER How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material we... TONY JUDT Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized. TONY FERNANDES I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. W... TONY FERNANDES When I started my airline business, I didn't know everything, right? If I start up a newspaper t... TONY FERNANDES I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are... TONY ABBOTT We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not. TONY ROBBINS I'm a Prada freak and I think they have great eyewear. Even though I don't need glasses, I u... TONY VINCENT I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from ... TONY DUNGY The path to success is to take massive, determined action. TONY ROBBINS The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your ... TONY DUNGY I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do a... TONY DANZA The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a... TONY KUSHNER I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During th... TONY BENNETT To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the wor... TONY ROBBINS The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure u... TONY ROBBINS Sooner or later, we sell out for money. TONY RANDALL Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's dee... TONY ROBBINS The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment. TONY ROBBINS What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple... TONY CAMPOLO We've got guys who aren't wrapping guys up... No matter how hard you hit them, you've st... TONY DUNGY I go into it with the attitude that I'm not going to look at my leg, and as soon as they get the... TONY STEWART Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the... TONY ROBBINS We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. TONY ROBBINS If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. TONY ROBBINS I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't... TONY STEWART We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age. TONY ROBBINS Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. TONY ROBBINS Microsoft is committed to the ubiquity of the Skype experience - communication across every device a... TONY BATES After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief wor... TONY CAMPOLO It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new. TONY VISCONTI My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My da... TONY HALE By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. Bu... TONY BLAIR You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing... TONY ROBBINS In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's... TONY ROBBINS Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing. TONY BLAIR One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never conce... TONY ROBBINS I'm a minor player in my own life story. TONY WILSON The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the... TONY BUZAN For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the... TONY ABBOTT I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, th... TONY ORLANDO Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military po... TONY SNOW The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets... TONY BLAIR If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves ... TONY SNOW If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our com... TONY CARDENAS Honestly, the best skater that I've seen who raps is Tyler, The Creator. He really can skate... ... TONY HAWK When you break your pelvis, you can't do a whole lot. It took me about six weeks to be able to g... TONY HAWK You just have to adapt, and you have to realize where people are going to actually play their games.... TONY HAWK I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other w... TONY HAWK I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebel... TONY HAWK If I can stand up when I'm 80, I'll be happy to cruise around on a skateboard. If I feel lik... TONY HAWK Don't be afraid of girls. That is my big regret. Knowing what I know about girls, I should have ... TONY HAWK I changed high schools three times because my parents moved. I had one friend my freshman year named... TONY HAWK My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses... TONY HAWK I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowb... TONY HAWK I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media. TONY HAWK The pro skaters I know are responsible members of society. Many of them are fathers, homeowners, wor... TONY HAWK I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by t... TONY HAWK I was skating with friends in my neighborhood, and then eventually I was invited to go to the skate ... TONY HAWK If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more you... TONY HAWK Technology has allowed me to reach my fans directly. Social media: it has been a complete revolution... TONY HAWK I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started tra... TONY HAWK I won't quit skating until I am physically unable. TONY HAWK If you have a game with your name on it, you have to learn how to play. TONY HAWK There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. TONY ROBBINS Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident bec... TONY JAA Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to ea... TONY ROBBINS A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws l... TONY HOARE I've said all along that God is in control. TONY DUNGY My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: 'Do unto othe... TONY OLLER The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English ... TONY HILLERMAN Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises. TONY GILROY What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true ... TONY ROBBINS Our kids have to understand that drinking underage is a poor decision that could drastically affect ... TONY CARDENAS Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what t... TONY ROBBINS To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspir... TONY DORSETT I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold ... TONY FERNANDES My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me i... TONY IOMMI It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that ... TONY BLAIR Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them remove... TONY PARSONS