The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.
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Related You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then... TERRY BRADSHAW Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas o... JOEL EDGERTON I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players. ABE LEMONS I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you c... OSCAR PISTORIUS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I ... BILLY CRUDUP I can't say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I've encountered racism the... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA I would rather do surrogacy before adopting. If I can't do it, I'd rather find someone who w... TASHA SMITH For me, I always try and deliver. Regardless of the situation, I always try and play hard every time... BEN SIMMONS For me, I've learned that the best thing is to focus on the team you play for and yourself and w... SIDNEY CROSBY You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what... MACEO PARKER The first thing you must know about me is that I always stand what I stand for. Good? The second thi... BOB MARLEY I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes natu... JOHN CLEESE I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real. On the comedy side, I'd lov... DANIELA BOBADILLA When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w... J. J. WATT I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics. NATALIE MERCHANT I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep... DARREN ARONOFSKY You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln... AL FRANKEN Broken hearts, you can run, you can hide and perhaps the earth is big enough to believe you’re saf... ROBERT M. DRAKE The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they ar... OREN PELI I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it'... TATIANA MASLANY You'd see those movie stars on the screen, and say, 'I want to be that guy.' DYLAN MCDERMOTT When your afraid of something you hide behind a mask. It might be to protect yourself, KRIS HARTE Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you... BRUCE ROBINSON So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody el... RICHARD BRANSON I got to pick the mind of a genius, and I realized why he was a genius. And I realized the man behin... COREY HAWKINS I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, t... AIDAN GILLEN Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you ge... ED SHEERAN If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the ... TOM SCHOLZ When we go to do something that we think is the right thing to do.We sometimes can find that we look... GARY F EVANS... I'd never taken a job purely for money - I felt that would kill me - but I was afraid that I was... MARK RUFFALO You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more. ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I'd rather there wasn't an afterlife, really. I'd much rather not be me for thousands of... WILLIAM GOLDING My logic used to be if I get angry at my boyfriend, he could say, 'Well, if that thing I do that... NIKKI GLASER Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really usef... CORY DOCTOROW I don't know if you know you're funny, but you enjoy being funny. I know I'm funny becau... GREG BEHRENDT What I'd love to do would be to bring a person from the past to me. In that case I'd pick Ja... JO BEVERLEY Don't focus on the negativity. Focus on the positivity and the people that want you to do well; ... ROMAN REIGNS I auditioned for a movie recently, and when I went in, the producer said he'd told one of its st... ISLA FISHER I don't find it uncomfortable that I'm recognized and liked by so many people. If that were ... SONG HYE-KYO And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged ... WILLIAM JOYCE I am dating, but it is hard to find someone quick enough and funny enough. I am quite demanding. ANNE ROBINSON In the end, though, if you don't find it funny, well, I do. Don't analyse the morals. The weird thin... JULIA DAVIS I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm suppose... EDDIE MURPHY I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can't ima... TAYLOR SWIFT I don't know how good he is. I've never leaned on him hard enough to find out. I haven't really aske... DICK BRIGHT I think it's really important to stay active, even when you're very busy. I know it can get ... JENNETTE MCCURDY I find myself having these conversations where I go...“You know, the guy, in that place. The guy i... DAVE BARRY I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he wa... PRINCE I don't know if likeable, pleasant characters have enough conflict for me to want to do them. I ... MICHAEL DOUGLAS I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rathe... MARA WILSON People ask me why it is that when I portray the 'angry young man' on screen, I really look a... AMITABH BACHCHAN It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It... DANNY BOYLE It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of... JOEL COEN I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a d... SARAH SNOOK Following your heart and working really, really hard is the best thing you can do, and just try not ... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO I don't make a concerted effort to distinguish myself as Duncan D. Hunter versus Duncan Hunter. ... DUNCAN D. HUNTER It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just... DAN BROWN I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a p... AARON JOHNSON The strange thing is, if I was speaking to drama students about the thing that you should do if you&... RHYS IFANS It's funny the way life works. Sometimes you go around in a weird path to find out exactly what ... HAYLIE DUFF I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those t... VICKY MCCLURE Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the ... DOROTHY ALLISON I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be... DREE HEMINGWAY As people, right now, we're so over-stimulated in this world that I don't know what I'd ... KATEE SACKHOFF I'd love to thwart the Census form, but I want a constitutional basis for doing it - and here... MARK DAVIS I just remember Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen, and I thought to myself, 'That's wh... SCOTT ADKINS I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's lik... OSCAR ISAAC You do not want to talk to me on the phone. How do I know? Because I don't want to talk to you o... JEFFREY KLUGER You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say ... SEAN CONNERY The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you ... ROBERT WILSON The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. ... ZANA MARJANOVIC For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could... LAURA HARRING When I was a kid, I would do Andrew Dice Clay jokes for my siblings. Like, we'd be on vacation, ... NICK KROLL I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the... RACHEL MCADAMS There will always be a part of me that wants to do a movie musical. I feel like you're doing you... ANNA KENDRICK It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right... DAN CASTELLANETA I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you... RALPH BROWN I do believe in God. But you won't find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in sel... VIRAT KOHLI I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself real... TEDDY SEARS Funny enough, the person who is most bummed out to hear I won't be back is Mark Cuban. Despite w... CHRIS SACCA I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the ... JAMIE BAMBER I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm... WERNER HERZOG When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the in... EDDIE TRUNK I don't do facials - I don't really enjoy people picking at my skin. I'd rather a dermat... HAILEY BALDWIN Quite often, I'll be sent a script for a movie. And I find that I like it, so I say I'll do ... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other peopl... ABEL FERRARA Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do ... RICHIE HAVENS The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I f... CAMILLA BELLE I'd rather proliferate funny little rumors than not. AUTRE NE VEUT I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell t... DOLLY PARTON I don't rely on catchphrases or really like sing-along. I just do whatever I feel. Whatever the ... MEEK MILL I feel that's a good thing as an actor that you do not feel satisfied. Whenever I go back and wa... ANUSHKA SHARMA It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - a... KRISTEN STEWART I don't know if I'd do well in a structured, corporate environment. I'm very open. I sha... DANA BRUNETTI I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that... EDGAR WRIGHT There were days when I was literally running for hours in the forest and then I'd jump on a plan... PETER FACINELLI Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with... CAMERON MATHISON You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else... MAYA ANGELOU People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they... CHUCK PALAHNIUK
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Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already ... JOEL STERNFELD Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passin... JOEL OSTEEN Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to... JOEL OSTEEN When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that'... JOEL OSTEEN It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He... JOEL OSTEEN I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential... JOEL OSTEEN When a dish works, it works for everyone, whether you're Asian, European, African, American or a... JOEL ROBUCHON You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you... JOEL OSTEEN My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya. JOEL MADDEN I've done a lot of self-improvement. I'm always working on being a better person. JOEL MADDEN Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That... JOEL OSTEEN You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had ... JOEL OSTEEN I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're gr... JOEL OSTEEN I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you ... JOEL OSTEEN When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. JOEL OSTEEN Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get t... JOEL OSTEEN See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you... JOEL OSTEEN We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, che... JOEL FUHRMAN The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. 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JOEL FUHRMAN Certainly adding fats in the form of oils is fattening and unhealthy, but naturally fat-rich foods l... JOEL FUHRMAN