Quotes About Preparation

So the books are waiting. Of this you may be confident: they'll be ready when the whim strikes you.

Utah, just waiting for the word to be given by the

Get me to the church on time!

Failing to plan mean you plan to fail.

In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared. We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.

Prepare for war, I thought, and pray for peace.

an actor friend of mine calls the 'John Wayne status.' " "What's that?" The question brought a small smile to her face. "Wayne never performed until he finished his morning's business. Usually, he was regular. But every so often, he was stymied. Sometimes there would be hundreds of people on the set milling about for hours, waiting for one man to have a bowel movement.

We should have brought a torch," he was saying. "We have been to Saturn and back and we didn't bring a torch.

I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

I, personally, like to get dressed and then do my makeup and hair in about five minutes.

I don't try to come in and act like I know it all, and that's why I put the extra work in of watching film, getting an understanding of what you want from personnel, each player.

Advice to persons about to marry - don't.

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.

Packing is my pet hate.

It's very, very clear that you cannot move to the next phase unless the former one has been fully accomplished.

For every philosophical idea about how we're going to do things, there has to be a plan to get there, and we have to be able to execute it, first in practice and then in games.

I want to be buried with a mobile phone, just in case I'm not dead.

In my carjack I immediately knew not to resist. I put my hands up, I didn't make eye contact, I didn't speak with them, I didn't argue with them, and he searched me - I knew he was going to search me, because I was told they would probably search you for phones or keys. I think once you expect something it's not as scary.

I am not a big makeup buff usually, but for photo shoots and big events you do what you have to do.

I think that something photographers find about me is that I work really hard to make sure I know what they want before I start shooting.

I like to give myself a nice run up to a shirtless scene. Physically, it really doesn't make any difference. It's about mentally feeling good about it.

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

I'm an over-packer 100 percent. I can't do it; I physically can't under-pack.