Quotes About Standards

It's funny, because, yes, there's a Marvel aesthetic, and yet no one ever said to me, 'we have to do a Marvel aesthetic.' So it was probably me more self-policing to make sure I was going to stay inside the box a little bit.

In this industry, there's a massive pressure to be a certain weight.

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

It's hard to measure up to 'Battlestar' - it's hard not to measure things against it.

If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?

I just know that if you put my film on with anybody else's in the league, it'll measure up.

You get measured by how fast you run or how high you can jump or how you can dribble, and I just wasn't that kind of player.

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

I don't think anybody wants to be mediocre.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they shouldn't get.

I like the medium boys. Not real perfect, but not too bad, either.

We need to encourage and reward those who play by the rules.

Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice.

Pageants are already ridiculous and sad, I think.

For a little while there, I was thinking, 'I don't want to be in anything on British TV'. I didn't watch any of it because it was rubbish.

If you want rubbish, you will get rubbish.

My father ruined me for men. Not many can live up to him.

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

There shouldn't be one size when it comes to runway models.

In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist.

I'm quite hypercritical of myself. It's a very Scottish thing, always thinking that you've got to be that bit better than everyone else to be good enough.

I want to be choosier. I can't let quality take a back seat... not after 'Kaaka Muttai.'