Quotes About Preparation

There's the acting side of it so you work with a coach. Dissect a script. If it's a character, then obviously a character study. Just depends on if there is training needed.

Don't try to tackle a two-hour feature movie as your first project. Cut your teeth on a smaller level and work through the kinks at that level and build your strength as you go.

I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.

I'd have conversations with the camera crew about what was going on in the scene, so that they were prepared to shoot it. I love the fact that when you work, you create this tribe.

Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

The majority of my work is about preparation.

If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?

I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy.

You don't know where a sport can take you, so I want to make sure that I have an education behind me in case things don't work out.

Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.

Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.

I truly think any preparation you do only helps and adds dimension and complexity to the work [as an actor].

Whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.

All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.

Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

Don't impose yourself until you really know the work throroughly.

Let us do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over we will all watch the sun go down as we all must, and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn.

If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

If Noah waited for signs of rain to build an ark, he would have been swept away by the flood.

It is impossible to make your own luck without the ingredient of hard work.

If you want a fried fish to fly and enter your mouth, you must keep waiting till the unending time ends. Dead fish doesn't fly. If you want to eat it, your own hands must carry it.

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.