Quotes About Preparation

I think some people get confused between development and pre-production. In pre-production, you know all your dates.You know when you're aiming to release the film. You've got your script. You've got everything sorted.

Hopefully, next year if we can get everything sorted out and together.

As time has gone by, I have looked more and more like Paul Revere than the alarmist my critics have sought to portray.

I get quite fearful about interviews, so I sought advice from other actors.

Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.

If anything's going to go wrong, it'd go wrong during 'Peter Pan,' not 'The Sound of Music.'

I often do crazy siren noises, or, like, a high-pitched dolphin, just to make sure that all my range is there. I make random noise and blurt out random sounds, to make sure I get rid of any bad nerves. I want to make sure to feel as confident as possible.

It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.

I love soup 'cause I don't like to cook. It's so easy to prepare, and it fills you up and gives you all the nutrients you need. It's a well-balanced meal, but you don't have to do a lot of preparation.

There's no enemy in the auditioning process. Everybody wants you to be the right person when you walk in the room. We're all just trying to make a soup here, and they're trying to figure out the right ingredients for the soup.

I always eat a meal at home before I leave for the airport, so I only eat the soup and salad on the plane.

My freezer is a labelled-and-dated marvel of soups, stews, braises, cooked grains, bread, and the occasional half-eaten dessert. Any of them can be defrosted and ready to eat in under 25 minutes.

There are new things we need to do in the labor market, in education, and in thinking about the future of energy sources. As long as we do those things everything really can turn out fine. But if we don't do them, we're going to be disappointed.

The tour of South Africa is a tough one and if you start thinking like this before it then it is not helpful for anyone.

When I get a chance to play in South Africa, I will try to do well.

We have to be mentally strong to prepare to face a team like South Africa in their own backyard.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 - that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

You really have to take your time; you have to know your character and your scene. The line you are about to say comes from the moment right before. It's not what's said, it's what is in between the spaces, it's what's in between the lines; that is the most important to play.

Just because you are available for a relationship, doesn't mean you are ready for one. Sometimes you need a break from external relationships to nourish the internal one.

its better to get hurt now than to get hurt later.