Quotes About Preparation

I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.

I am delighted to accept the chairmanship of Vote Leave, to help ensure that the organisation is fully prepared for the start of the referendum campaign.

At this very moment, I don't feel I will be able to handle what's coming.

Obviously, everyone wants to play in the NBA but I think if you handle what's in front of you first you'll get your chance when your name is called.

I think my first World Championships, I handled it well. My goal, just like any other meet, was to come out and win.

I have a playlist for every project that I do. I made one for 'Handmaid' before I got the job.

You come there and hang out and have a drink before the show and eat, so it's not that brutal. It's only $6.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.

For movies, I usually do an entire book that has all kinds of things about what is happening at the time the movie is going on and try to get into what my character's going to be like, to try to get some consistency, because they shoot movies out of order.

Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.

I always wanted to be a professional cricketer, which meant I didn't work as much as I should have done at exams. But, happily, it came off.

I can go into any working circumstance and, simply, I'm prepared to deal with the work. It was a long, hard lesson I learned.

The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.

This is the hardest part for me. Just the waiting - the waiting to fight. The work has all been done, and you just have to wait.

For me, the audition is always the hardest part of the whole process. Once you get on set, once you're in costume, you're with the director, it's so much easier to get in the headspace.

I tell anyone who is willing to listen that auditioning is the hardest part. Once you get the job, you have the job. You can go to work. You learn your lines. You learn your character. With auditioning, you can have five in a week with different people.

You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.

America, at its core, is a country of strong and resilient people who are prepared to confront the challenges posed by those who seek to do us harm.

Some actors start with the right shoes. I start with the right hats.

I sit down before every game and tell myself I've got to have fun.

My advice for men who aren't yet parents is to make sure you're a happy person before having a baby.

I do most of the cooking in my head.

Having already been a head coach and having been fired, you never want to be in a situation where you're not prepared.