Rebecca Hall Quotes
I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.
Quotes to Explore
-
Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
-
Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.
-
Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
-
I'm not a sun person.
-
Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
-
Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
-
I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
-
South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
-
If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
-
Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
-
It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.
-
Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.
-
I think the way to maximize not just your leadership but your ability to influence your team is whatever you can do that helps the team perform at a really high level.
-
You lose your home, you lose your community, you lose your school, you lose your stuff.
-
From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.
-
The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'
-
Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.
-
Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.
-
We're all working hard to try to improve it in any way in the league and particularly officiating is a big deal, ... I think we've got very professional people there, and they work hard at it and we need to be a part of helping them and not working against them.
-
I'm in an odd place right now in New York where I routinely get trashed by every daily drama critic and have a few allies among weekly/monthly drama critics, and you sort of plot these things out and figure it out. But it's just what any writer goes through, periods of favor, periods of disfavor. And the trick is just to keep writing and to not let an obsession.
-
Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure!
-
I was an only child for 15 years and then this lovely present, Fred, came along. It was great - it meant I had my teenage years with a little one around.
-
I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.
