Quotes About Patience

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

It took 17 years to get 'Rambling Rose' made from the time Calder Willingham wrote the script adapted from his novel. Ed Scherick, the producer, was interested in it. Martha Coolidge was interested in directing it.

'Bahubali' did not happen overnight. The producer Shobhu Yarlagadda, Prabhas, and I kept talking and discussing and imagining.

There is always a producer within an actor. You just wait for the right time to start functioning as one.

If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.

If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

I learned, even when all hell is breaking loose, first to take time to make my environment productive.

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

You have to stay open, and things may come at different times, but I have to dream big, and that's what I'm going to be doing.

So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.

Being a parent, is without any doubt, one of the most difficult things that you can do in life.

Those first few overs are obviously the most difficult time because you don't know what the ball is going to do in the air and off the seam.

God is going to see you through the difficult times.

When I have difficulties, I will not complain.

I'm very confident that God has a way of bringing good from difficulty.

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

The sacrifices you make in your 20s pay off 30 and 40 years later. The same is true when it comes to financial progress. Every dime saved in your 20s turns into a dollar in your 60s.

Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.

On my set, people have to respect the actor's process. I totally respect what actors do. I give them whatever time they need, and I never scream out directions from the camera. I take the time to walk up to them and talk to them personally.

When I was little, I asked my mom to move us to Los Angeles and get me an agent. She would say, 'Stop it. Go play in the dirt.'

People have said for years 'never work with children or animals' but I couldn't disagree more.

People tend to disappear from showbiz because they cant wait between two projects, which often takes a lot of time.

I'm waiting for better scripts to come my way, especially because I'm aware that there are people who are waiting to see me come back; and I don't want to disappoint them.

I don't like setting goals - I don't like to be disappointed.