Quotes About Standards

Sometimes, when the material is really good, you put expectations on yourself to make it the best possible show. You're not just serving up the regular hash and doing your job and going home.

You know where the best McDonald's is? Dubai. Because they have regulation on the meat, so it's really, really good.

I don't accept films just because they have star heroes in lead. I rejected a few big films because I didn't like the story.

Why did the rejection of the modelling industry get to me so much? I think the answer is that these rejections were based on how I looked and I had always prided myself on a healthy amount of self-confidence which I was now rapidly losing.

In our culture the idea of being fair-skinned is related to success. And we think that is the truth. Unfortunately, the beauty, fashion and Bollywood industry are to be blamed.

Not everyone relates to being a blond girl with blue eyes and is proportioned so she could barely walk if she was a real person.

My liking for a team isn't based on just how good it was, but how good was it in relation to how good it should have been.

Success in football is relative. If you take a job at a school that finished with a 1-9 record the year before, you're considered a good coach if you finish 5-5 in your first season. But what happens if you start with 8-2 or 9-1?

Sometimes, they don't even make films with good cameras - they shoot with normal cameras and release the films. If this is going to be the case, the industry will not see quality films.

I don't want to release anything unless it's amazing.

The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.

I'd never ask an actor to do something I couldn't do - not that I'm the best actor in the world - but if I can do it, then I know that anyone I hire can do these things.

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.

Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.

Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

There are very few horror films that I think are worth their salt.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

The world is full of nice hotels, but it is not full of great hotels.

Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.

The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.

TV and social media has such as huge impact for what we think is normal and what is OK. And that's for good and bad a lot of the time.

To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don't hear men saying, 'No she's not pretty, but is she ever funny!'

I'm probably my own harshest critic. If I get a hundred good reviews and one really bad one, it's that one out of a hundred that I remember. I think we actors are hard on ourselves, and I don't know why that is.