Quotes About Preparation

Every summer I kept figuring out what I needed to work on to be productive the next season.

Sometimes you just don't show up, and in our profession, it's a bad day.

My preparation for roles are less about the character's profession than who they are, what their dreams are, and in what way are they childish.

A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.

You can get reps up in the gym as much as you want, hours and hours, but when it comes to a game, there's so many different aspects going on, so many different things.

Some guys like to eat two or three different times a day before the game. I eat once, and that's it.

People deal with the concentration needed to do well in a two-hour race in different ways.

That's the whole part about being a deejay: You've got to make sure you are prepared. At the end of the day, you do have your genre - house music, dance music - but there are many different ways of playing that.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.

There's no set rule, but when you look at the script, you start thinking about this person and how to create this human being on screen. You dig deeper into a script.

I believe you've got to do your due diligence.

When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day.

I cook. Well, if I'm giving a dinner party I get in help.

I really try to plan out my dinners in advance.

I'm in a Bond film directed by Sam Mendes, with Daniel Craig. I want it to be perfect.

When I audition for something, I don't even want to think about who the other actors are in it, who's directing it.

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

My childhood was all about discipline, hard work and training.

I never like to sit and discuss my character, the other character, our relationship, or anything like that. I feel like if I did my job and I trust that the other person has done theirs, you just go on set, play around with it, chew the scene for a little bit; then we roll, and that's it.

I have worked in films where we just put on the make-up and go in for a shoot without any discussions and even a talk with the director.

To be the best, you have to have the right equipment at your disposal.

What I have to do is train hard, be at the disposal of the coach and make the best of what I have here every day so when I'm called upon I'll be ready.