Getting bad reviews or doing something that’s not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I’ve earned my stripes a bit. Greta Gerwig Read Quote
An established property can be a blessing and a challenge. On one hand you have all those fans of the original that you can pick up with and continue on with but then you have a lot of people out there who haven’t seen the first and might feel like this isn’t a movie for them because of that. Joseph Kosinski Read Quote
Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you’re tired, and you can do nothing about it – that’s, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of. Daniel Bryan Read Quote
It’s necessary to start most work alone. But I’m tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it’s borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate. Jenny Holzer Read Quote
For me, I’m just trying to be the best at what I do. I’ll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I’m not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven’t had the opportunity. Chad Hugo Read Quote
Wherever you find ‘men together’ – writing the rules, as at exclusive golf or other men’s clubs, businesses, and lodges where they wear elaborate robes and funny hats – women are kept completely outside if possible and, when grudgingly admitted, to highly restricted areas or token status. Eugene Kennedy Read Quote
I had just been in some repressive situations – the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force – and so I just felt like getting out of that. I thought, now, that I wanted to be a writer. I had something that I wanted to do, that I was interested in doing, so I wanted to pursue that. Amiri Baraka Read Quote
America after Trump may be more like the European Union; a rambling alliance of interstate compacts, rather than the forced marriage of a country that emerged after the Civil War. Joy Reid Read Quote
Critics called me ‘egregious’ – I had to look that one up – and ‘creepy’, but now I don’t read them, I weigh them. Craig Charles Read Quote
