The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work.
After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the endu.””In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.
Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious.
If you can accept losing you can’t win. If you can walk you can run. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
Field of Dreams made me realize that I wanted to live my dreams, to risk things for what I felt and what I dreamt of.
I definitely acknowledge that The Matrix and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it’s awesome.
When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don’t actually go and do it.
For me, the biggest thing is someone who’s kind. I’m not into the bad-boy thing.
I just love to play characters that are layered and that I can relate to in some way, even if they’re completely different than me; that I can see a glimpse of humanity and something I’m interested in exploring.
I have no major regrets. I’ve made the conscious decision not to look at life that way. I always try to learn something – to take something away from the situation.
I like stories about the world, where we’re at. I like to explore humanity. I like to explore my own humanity.
You’ll have a guy, and they’re ageing however they’re ageing, and nobody really cares. If you’re a woman, it’s different.
I love to play women who are strong and unapologizing and kind of rough around the edges and don’t care what anybody thinks about that.
Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally – and being an actor you have that freedom.
I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself – that is the best combination.
One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you’re not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That’s the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.
We get up in the morning. We do our best. Nothing else matters.
Most things don’t work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.
I would hate people to think bossy is all I can do.
It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.
I’ve got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.
I have a completely new knee. It’s brilliant. I am not feeling my age at all. I feel about 43, a willowy blonde 43 years old with long legs.
I like to push myself beyond the limit every now and again.
Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that they will care for it. Through the simple act of planting a tree we can open their eyes to nature’s beauty.
Yes, because it’s Len’s obsession with practical. I’ve never really had that experience that I hear people having of being on an empty soundstage painted green talking to a tennis ball on a stick.
It’s a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there’s an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.
I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I cant sing that great and I havent yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.
I think what’s dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, ‘Well, I can totally handle myself now.’ But if my opponent didn’t know the other half of the routine, I don’t know how well I’d do.
Obviously I’ve had great experiences with people I’ve worked with on films – I’ve married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, ‘Don’t worry, I’m not going to try to marry you. I’m done.
My life has not been predictable. I never would have imagined I’d be living where I’m living, doing what I’m doing or married to an American guy. I’m interested to see what will happen next!
Theres such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just cant compare yourself to people in magazines.
I try and take lots of vitamins and I don’t drink. I do smoke, though, I’d be insufferable if I didn’t smoke, you’d have to push me off a balcony I’d be so boring.
But it still feels like it’s a reach for me. I am more comfortable doing a drama. I feel like I know what I’m doing a bit better there. But it’s good to be scared.
Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one’s being nice enough to me!
People say it gets better but it doesn’t. It just gets different, that’s all.
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost – it’s there and then it’s gone.
The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn’t have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
I am just surprised to be doing anything at my age actually. When you think of where I am now and where I’ve come from, I am very pleased and very grateful to be standing up and delivering Julian’s great lines.
Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness.
There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it’s there it’s stunning, and there is nothing to match that.
The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn’t ask them.
My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
There is something gratifying, and beyond lucky, about coming to the end of Thrones. I’m so happy to be here to see the end of this story and the beginning of whatever comes next.
Beauty is laughter. It’s being inspired. If you look emaciated and tired and full of self-loathing, you do not look beautiful, no matter how perfect your hair and makeup is. We should be celebrating having a giggle a bit more. Laughter is free as well, which is good.
One of my best friends has come out with me for this trip, and she reminded me of something rather embarrassing. I’ve known her for almost two decades, and she said, ‘When I first met you, you said, ‘Hi, my name’s Millie, and I want to be an actress.” I was like, ‘God, that’s cringe-worthy’, but I was always determind.
It’s the growth of a girl into a woman. She’s being thrown into the deep end, to see if she can sink or swim, and she decides to do it her way. It was wonderful to see a character with such humble beginnings, and such low self-esteem, beginning to trust herself. So my feelings within filming it were echoed – in a much more dramatic way, obviously.
My life is unrecognisable compared to what it was. Game of Thrones has opened doors that were never there before. But it can be dangerous to see it in those terms, I think. It’s best to take it as it comes and work as hard as you can, and hopefully the other things fall into place.
I think as a woman it’s in our nature to nurture someone else. Sometimes at the expense of ourselves.
One of the many things I love about Daenerys (Targaryen) from Game of Thrones is she’s given me an opportunity to fly the flag for young girls and women, to be more than just somebody’s wife and somebody’s girlfriend.
There are no captions on red-carpet photos that say, ‘This girl trained for two weeks, she went on a juice diet, she has a professional hair and makeup person, and this dress was made for her.’ I just wish they’d say, ‘It ain’t the truth.
You can’t come out of drama school and think, ‘It’s all going to be amazing.’ You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!
I don’t get much studio stuff. I’m usually on location, and I know that some people think that acting is so glamorous, but believe me, it’s not!
Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn – to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise.
I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.
Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.
If you’ve got to my age, you’ve probably had your heart broken many times. So it’s not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.
There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.
Ive realized that in all the great stories, even if theres a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad.
Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That’s all very well, and it’s not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you’re going to get wet.
Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement.
Children are the most wonderful audiences. What’s struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
It’s unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.
Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don’t, the first thing I’d teach a girl of mine is the words ‘f – off.
Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.
It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.
I don’t think it’s good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery – of relationships and life in general – is to learn to live with the bits you don’t like.
A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.
I don’t like the word ‘strong,’ because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.
I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you’ve got to go out and do it. Don’t be shy, be adventurous.
I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say, ‘Is this a world you want to live in?’ They would say, ‘No.
Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can’t run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.
Love is a command to rise to one’s highest potential, the best and noblest vision of ourselves. Love is a reward, the greatest we can earn, granted to us for the moral qualities we have achieved in our lives.
Everybody has to know for themselves what they’re capable of.
I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that’s never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal… has always been the work of other actors.
The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.
England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
For about a year, I just didn’t know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you’re suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
