It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every day because, basically, if I had it my way, I'd just stay home and think about what I'm having for supper.
Meryl Streep
Related I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as tha... OLIVIA COLMAN I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can... BEA ARTHUR I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can... RAJIV OUSEPH When doing a series, I look for something that has an idea you can think about, something that I'... DARREN STAR I train and I go home, and when I'm home, I think about training. That's my life every day, ... CONOR MCGREGOR I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever... PAUL MCCARTNEY Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don'... KALPANA CHAWLA You just suddenly think that there's something quite childish about acting. Basically, it's ... KEVIN WHATELY I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I... JACLYN SMITH Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's... B. B. KING Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that ev... DAMIEN HIRST I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't ... ELLEN BARKIN If you tell me I can't do something, that's the worst thing to tell me. And that's what ... GURINDER CHADHA Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you'... RIAN JOHNSON If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for mys... KIM KARDASHIAN At a party recently I was introduced to Meryl Streep, and it took me a second to get my head around ... LILY COLLINS What we do is ridiculous! I think that even when what I'm doing is serious, even when I'm no... DAVID THEWLIS I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't eve... DAKOTA JOHNSON I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm do... HAROLD SIMMONS Modelling isn't something I'm doing to prove people wrong. It's something I'm doing ... KENDALL JENNER Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think... KATE ASHFIELD I think it doesn't matter if you are the best surfer in the world. I'm going to try to be th... BETHANY HAMILTON I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's w... AYUMI HAMASAKI It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a... CAREY MULLIGAN I can't imagine myself doing something like 'Narnia' again. I would love to do something... WILLIAM MOSELEY I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought... DAVID JOHANSEN I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's ... JACK LAYTON I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm... DONNY OSMOND The way I've approached my career, I've always tried to be pretty good at everything. I thin... DANIEL NESTOR We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, yo... STERLING MARLIN You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-el... RAY NAGIN It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And &... ADAM FERRARA I don't just rely on my right hand when I'm in the ring. That's the least thing I think ... DEONTAY WILDER I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha... INGE DE BRUIJN I'd love to thwart the Census form, but I want a constitutional basis for doing it - and here... MARK DAVIS I'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a goo... NORA EPHRON Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattract... JOEL OSTEEN It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, t... JACKIE ROBINSON Write every day. Don't kill yourself. I think a lot of people think, 'I have to write a chap... CASSANDRA CLARE I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Va... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER I'm always drawn towards the darker stuff, because I think it's just a lot more interesting.... IWAN RHEON I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for ... CAMILLA LUDDINGTON I don't think I'm a home run hitter. Most of my home runs are line drives. If I hit it, than... ROBINSON CANO I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can... DAVID DUCHOVNY I wake up every day and I think, 'I'm breathing! It's a good day.' EVE ENSLER If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you... RANDY NEWMAN I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the ti... ELLE FANNING I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I w... NATALIE MASSENET If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. ... DERRICK ROSE One thing I really love in my single, 'Just Can't Let You Go,' is the beatboxing; I thin... MANIKA You can't tell young people what to do. You can't tell 'em because they'll look at y... RONNIE JAMES DIO I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life abo... WILLIAM FRIEDKIN It is so inspiring when you come across a woman who is very strong and dedicated and is amazing at w... AGYNESS DEYN Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the charac... TOM HANKS It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it ... MAX MARTIN I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze ... ALEXIS BLEDEL I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it... CARLENE CARTER It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most ot... PATRICK MACNEE If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you... DOROTHY STRATTEN I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing ou... ADAM SANDLER I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we'r... JASON REITMAN If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I ha... MARTIN GORE I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to e... T. C. BOYLE They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageab... IGGY AZALEA It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. A... WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN I'm a normal person. You say something about me, I'm going to say something back, funny or n... AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something... MIKE DITKA It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone bei... KARIN SLAUGHTER I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't y... NATALIE IMBRUGLIA I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I'm a pleaser, but it's not a good thing because you forget about pleasing yourself at the e... NIKKI BELLA I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I thin... CARLY SCHROEDER If you don't read it, you don't know. I mean, that's why I have a PR team. They read it ... ANNE WOJCICKI I'm comfortable airing my laundry. I don't think one thing's dirty or clean. It's ju... TITUSS BURGESS I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselv... RICKY MARTIN If at my funeral they're talking about my boxing stories, I'd be disappointed because this i... MARK DE MORI Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breakin... SHAILENE WOODLEY I'm not a great actor - let's face it. I don't have a great deal of scope. There are cer... STEVE MCQUEEN I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I wa... EMMA WATSON I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thi... FRED WILSON I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to... LAURA TROTT I don't go, 'It is now time to change Americans' perception of Muslims. It's going t... KUMAIL NANJIANI I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away ... RIAN JOHNSON Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created thi... CARL LEWIS I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I... RYAN GOSLING There are always people who are into the old way of doing things. I don't think it's a bad t... LIL UZI VERT I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'T... ZARA LARSSON It's a 12-hour cooking class for me on the set of 'Chopped.' You'd think I'd get... TED ALLEN I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm... BO BURNHAM If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that... OZWALD BOATENG With anything in life, I think that's when you start stressing yourself out - when you start wor... SCOTT TOLZIEN I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's ... EMILIO ESTEVEZ I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left ev... JIMMY CONNORS I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's ... LUCIANO PAVAROTTI I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revi... ABHISHEK BACHCHAN I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just t... KATE WINSLET 'Black' is an adjective, in my book, and the way I use it, sometimes I'll say 'black... THURGOOD MARSHALL The thing that you think is imperfect about you is the thing that makes you who you are. It separate... TERRY CREWS
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