Doing Quotes

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.

When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.

The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw.

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.

I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap.

They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.

I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it.

I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.

I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

We are doing what Prince did. Everyone that comes to a show billed as An Evening with Journey will get our new CD. We figured that is our best store because they are our biggest fans.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music.

Being an actress isn't as fun as it may seem. If I don't love something, I stop doing it. I don't love acting anymore, so I've stopped doing it.

We stopped doing my clothing line about five years ago, so it isn't available anymore.

I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.

There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.