Quotes About Preparation

You never know what doors are going to open up and why they are going to open up. You've got to be ready to walk through them.

I'm not really too focused on where I get drafted. It's what I do after I get drafted.

When you are getting drafted you have an idealized situation, but you really don't know how things are going to go down.

When I have to do an emotional scene, I sometimes feel drained right before doing it.

I realized that the actors that I liked and admired all went to drama school and got an agent that way. So I started when I was about 16 in drama school, and then I knew I had to wait until I was 18 so I could go on auditions, and I tried to get into one of the ones that I liked and then go from there.

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

It takes me exactly a minute and a half to get dressed in the morning.

I've always been quiet in the dressing room before the game. I try to focus and give everything.

I don't sit at home and test my driver, you know.

Life is going to hit you some line drives, and sometimes you'll have to think fast. However, it's better to think first than to think fast.

People always ask me what I did when things went wrong on stage with AC/DC. Nothing ever went wrong. I might drop a drum stick, maybe, but that was about the only thing.

I tend to get over someone in my head before I actually dump them.

We used to dunk in pregame practice, not in the game.

If you're not ready then you can play bad, and you only have one shot at the Australian Open each year, so you have to do the best you can.

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

You always think you're ready earlier than you are.

I have always enjoyed keeping. I used to keep earlier for my state and later didn't have much chance to keep. But I keep myself ready if ever anyone wants me to keep.

I think it's really good to get early work experience. I'm not sure if it will happen with my children, but for many young people it's character-building and sets them up for what comes later.

People always ask about learning all of your lines as an actor, and it's generally the easiest part of the job.

When I won the world title against Andre Dirrell, I was edgy and a bit scared that I didn't want to lose, but you saw I was on my game.

I expect to pitch well and pitch efficiently.

I selfishly like a lot of first-time directors because they over-prepare, they're super eager, and there's very little ego.

The way I approach an election, I assume nothing. I run scared as a jackrabbit.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.