Quotes About Preparation

I would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work.

Women have to be a lot smarter and brighter and have to work a lot harder to prepare themselves. They have to watch what they do and how they behave. It's not a free world yet.

If we want to work out a policy for the present, we must examine the past and prepare for the future, discard the material and elevate the spirit, rely on the individual and exclude the mass.

Let us save the tomorrows for work.

Whatever role I do, I've got to do the work. It all starts with the body. Get that ready and everything else follows.

When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.

You need to create a 30-minute buffer between the end of your work time and sleep time.

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.

I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.

It's hard to do things like auditions, because you don't want to put weeks of work into just an audition.

The young generation of today is globally connected. They want to live in an equitable and efficient India. We have to be ready for this, and work for this.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

I tend to work towards specific exhibitions, so there will often be a big push towards the end when we're finishing off a bunch of stuff.

I like the chance to work on material. Sometimes it helps to not be going into a room cold and to know people.

Just think of yourself as starting from zero every time. That's what I do with every new role. I'm at zero, and I'm going to do the work.

I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time.

You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.

Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material.

The great thing about doing a show in New York is that you can work until the night before.

Just all that hard work, all those hours in the pool, I feel like it's about to pay off. I guess we'll just have to wait and see this summer.

The hardest work begins in dry dock.

I always work from an outline.