Quotes About Preparation

It pays to be in the best shape possible when you're wrangling the largest reptiles on Earth!

I always have to have breakfast before I leave the house, even if it's 4 A.M. and I'm not hungry.

Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up.

It's 'The Hunger Games.' My character needs to look hungry. A little bit.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

I was never in a hurry to make my first album. I knew I wouldn't do it until I knew exactly what I wanted it to be.

Before the decathlon I'm constantly trying to convince myself that I want to do this, that I want to take myself to that place where it's going to hurt and things are going to be tough. But that's like anything - you want to give your best.

I'm big on watching film, and sometimes it hurts myself because I over-calculate things, or I overthink sometimes.

I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.

I get too hyped before games.

When I am performing ice immersion, actually I do not think very much. It is all before.

I like to spend time with senior actors before going on set to break the ice. On set, I just look at them as co-actors.

When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

Ideally when you set up for the first game of the season... to have put the team to bed would be the ideal situation.

Ideally, you want to play games, and you don't want to train every day without the matches.

Do I feel confident about my health? I don't think that anybody ever should feel confident about their health if they are 72 years old, and getting ready to go in to the ring. If they are then they are probably some kind of an idiot and that is more than likely what I am.

I look back at the first Groves fight, and it was all so bad, so wrong. Everyone was telling me it was going to be easy, the bookies, everyone. Like an unprofessional fool, like an idiot, I listened to them. I didn't give myself the best possible chance.

I think 'American Idol' has prepared me for anything.

If I could have my kids be great when the lights are on, whatever the moment is, to be accountable and then fix it, they're going to be fine.

If I have to do a speech, if there's no way I can get out of it, or if it's something I really should do, I won't sleep the night before. I'll feel ill the entire day leading up to it. I won't be able to eat if it's after a dinner, which makes things even worse.

The lighter I am going into a fight, the more likely I am to get ill.

I let the images crowd my mind before I start writing a script.

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

I internalise every role that I do and my creative process sees me immerse myself with the setting and the character that I have at hand.