Ed Byrne Quotes
As you think of yourself living in abundance, you are powerfully and consciously determining your life through the law of attraction.
I think it's important to keep an element of fear about yourself because it makes you appreciate the jobs.
What's weird about the cinema business is that you have to have a thick skin while remaining vulnerable as an artist. It comes with time. You get dumped, your heart gets broken.
They think I'm depressed because I look serious in photos. It's usually because I'm just nervous. But I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing.
Women watch plenty of television and theater. They're consumers, like everybody else. I think people don't thinking women go to the movies is a thing that still has to be addressed and changed.
I definitely had creative people around me, but my parents were more just very encouraging.
How competitive am I? A healthy amount. I have four siblings. It was competitive just eating dinner, like, "Everyone, get what you want from the chicken." Plus competing for your parents' attention.
The good thing about having a kid is you don't think about that as much. Like when I turned 30, for instance, that was much more momentous. Forty is particularly great for a woman. It's a big thing.
The actor's life, but also the Australian's life. We're wanderers. We like to walk about - we're curious people. I have felt that since I was a teenager.
I have drive, for sure. You have to. It's a tough business; there are a lot of actresses and not a lot of great roles. I don't want to complain because I'm so grateful.
With a comedy, it's so important to see it with an audience and an audience who really wants to be there and is enthusiastic, otherwise it can be quite a traumatizing experience.
Australians, we've got a very healthy sense of humor in us. God forbid we take ourselves too seriously so it's kind of a cultural trait.
I think diversity for most actors is such a blessing. It's something definitely I've strived for.
I see some of the clothes from the '90s is back in fashion. That really freaks me out because that's when I grew up.
As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.
TV is a completely different discipline, which I think I am still learning about. You just have to learn how to work fast and pace yourself.
There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's giving you attention or flooding you with compliments.
I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.
TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.
The physical environment of L.A. is really beautiful. It's actually kinda fun, too, if you're working. It's just not really fun if you're not working and you don't know anybody.
Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.
Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
There was something more than a little satisfying about ripping the heart out of someone the moment before they expected to do the same to you.
Alison’s gaze gentled. “Tell me, Samantha, have you ever been to Scotland?
Samantha imagined that in another life, she and Alison could have, indeed, been friends. Had she not been about to rob the train.
