Quotes About Preparation

In theater, you're allowed to take your time and sit in a role for a month before you have to share it with anybody. In film and TV, you have to just kind of show up and be ready to do that, which, to me, is very strange and crazy.

When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.

I'll look back and I'd be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the movie comes out and I see it. I don't even know what it is yet. I've still been in the middle of it.

I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.

They have very good individual players, but they need the collective game. And they still do not have it although there are now only six months left to go.

I watch the goals to get me in the mood and to give myself a vision of how I want the game to go.

I love rock music, dance music, so it depends on my mood. But I mainly listen to dance music before going out on court.

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

I love any excuse to work with a mortar and pestle.

I get an especially acute case of agita at the thought of a mortar and pestle.

I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue.

I'm going to go in and play, because the most important thing is playing on the field and being able to contribute. I really am ready.

I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.

I think the single most important thing for a job interview is leave the phone in your bag and do not look at it for 20 minutes.

Conditioning is the most important thing in MMA.

One has to do everything at the right time. That includes motherhood.

I played a lot of mothers before I even became a mother. It wasn't like I set out to be some sort of mother crusader.

You still have to enjoy the tour games. If you go out there and just go through the motions, you can easily get into bad habits, you lose a bit of rhythm or a bit of form and then things can go pretty bad pretty quickly.

I'm a strong person, and when I am not in the team, I can motivate myself to keep focused and be prepared for when I get called on.

I always come very motivated to the Grand Slams.

Maybe the word they should use instead of Motivated Penn is Prepared Penn.

When we play a team I know we're going to blow out or anything like that, I'm not as motivated.

I would say that one of the really special gifts about playing an athlete is that it's the best motivation you'll ever have to get in top shape and stay in top shape because you know that you're going to be expected to deliver.

I live by the motto, 'Stay ready, so you don't have to get ready.'