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There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.

Cheating gets easier every time it's done. It's only hard the first time, when one feels the sting of morality and the guilt of betraying someone's trust.

I'm like a slow starter. Everything I've done has built, or has taken a while.

I've been playing the bad guy in the last seven or eight projects I've done. I like it. It's a lot more interesting! Being the good guy gets a little stale after a while, you know?

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.

Jon Hamm was the first I thought of for the other role in [Keeping Up with the Joneses], I recently worked with him on Clear History, an HBO improv movie that we had done together.

I'm really glad to have made a movie that way on Superbad, because I learned a lot about what can be done and what the limitations are.

Years passed and I hadn't really done much writing. Other than the fact that I'm constantly developing new shows, writing up proposals and stuff.

Once your reputation's done/ You can live a life of fun

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

The ban on assault weapons has decreased gun violence in Baltimore not one iota. That's because few, if any, of the shootings were done with assault weapons.

And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

There are a lot of period movies where they say, 'This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.' And it's done in like a 1950s or 60s style.

I thought I had my feet on the ground, but if someone tells you every day you're going to be the next big thing then...So then if you aren't, you think, 'Have I done something wrong?'

When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

I find it really difficult to even articulate things that I've done in the past. I express myself through the characters that I play, not through the articulation of them later.

I do like a variety of things so I'm always interested in finding something that I haven't done before.

Even though I've done a lot it also feels like I haven't done a lot. I've sort of popped in for supporting roles in things, and that's been really delightful.

I really enjoy a variety of different work, and what I've just done may sometimes determine what I choose to do next.

I've always worked really hard, and the hardest thing I've ever done is have kids!

I know six years is a big break. But I never walked away from music. I never released an album because I wanted to do a different album, something I have never done before.

I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.

I've been very passionate about animals for as long as I can remember, and ever since I became an actress, I've always done my best to get involved with animal charities and such.

Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle.

Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

I've never made any choice or done anything that wasn't what I think it should be. I've never compromised, but I do listen.

When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece

If ever the call comes to them, the young will go straight from the ranks of the neutralists into the ranks of he Majesty's Forces, as they have so often done in the past.

At a certain point, you have to convince the actors that you've done the right thing. The way I work, if I can't convince them, I've got to move on. I can't coerce them or browbeat them.

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

I had never even thought about doing something that I'd never done before or proving anything.

There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.

It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.

Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

Now remember, we've already done more than a billion dollars worth of cuts. We've already done that. So we need to get some credit for that.

...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.

I do first draft in longhand, which saves a lot of rewriting. I try to get a certain amount done each day. Don't always, but I try. Then I clean up in the rewrites.

Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

As you're learning your lines and the character you're playing, you're going to make mistakes but I learned more about Shug Avery. I learned my lines, but everything had to be done quickly.

I've done sport for a long time.

Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee.

If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting.