Quotes About Personal

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

I think the work is always going to be much better when it's important and personal to you.

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

The key to personal style is understanding your individual beauty enough to know which looks will work for you and which probably won't.

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.

The lack of education means, the lack of having something I can pull out of a drawer, means I have to find something in any movie I work on that is intensely personal.

First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.

It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me. I stayed in Boston and I didn't work apart from the contracts I have, and then I only let them use my face.

I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.

Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject.

I mean, for sure, from my history, I have an extreme fondness for 2D. I think it feels very hand-crafted, and you see the artist's personal touch. I think something about CG makes it a bit more sterile.

Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.

My first name used to be Leslie. I snipped that off and put my middle name, which was Steven, in the front.

I've never had anyone just stick their hands through my hair. Yet. If they ask, I go, 'OK, you can, if you want to. It's probably just going to feel like most people's.' I take it as a compliment.

I'm a private person; I stick to my neighbourhood and eat in my little restaurants.

If I'm going to try and find something, I stick to the flea markets, or I pull hand-me-downs from my family because I like pieces to have stories.