Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.
I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.
I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.
When you have four daughters, you learn to lose early and often.
To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.
To me, Romney is 'Our Idiot Brother', and Obama is 'The King's Speech'. You can spend all the money in the world. If you've got a bad product, it doesn't matter.
Everybody who's played Marilyn Monroe before has gone down in flames. It's impossible to capture Marilyn Monroe.
He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.
The past is the best way to suppose what may come.
What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles.
If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm. (page 10)