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You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

Look, 85% percent of Democrats think the economy's fine. What does that tell you about these people?

Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.

I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down.

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.

I have been the subject of ridicule. People talk about me and they don't know me and this is an opportunity to tell my story... to have my voice and to set the record straight.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.

I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.

Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.