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Quotes on doing your best work.

These quotes focus on craft and timing - a drama student naming the first year as the best, and filmmakers explaining that the best visual effects and shots come from grounding fantasy in something real. Related reading includes Achievement Quotes.

Last Updated on Nov 07, 2020

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

With action movies, that's just fun stuff for me. That's me being a kid again. Same with 'The Best of Me' and these romantic dramas. It's such a freedom from reality and social constructions. You get to just have fun and play and be in a movie.

Nov 07, 2020

There's so little representation of people who look like me behind the camera that it makes you want to say yes to any opportunity out of desperation. It puts you in a situation where you can't make your best work. Diversity for cheap.

Nov 07, 2020

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

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Nov 07, 2020

I'm trying everything. But voice work is the best thing you ever imagined. It's not about how you look, and you can go to work in your PJs.

Nov 07, 2020

Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great writing. If there's something about the script, that's what I go for, although I know that that doesn't always translate because sometimes it's about the vision of the director.

Nov 07, 2020

I always think there's this thing, when you live in New York, like, this unspoken agreement between everyone who lives there, like, 'We're sticking this out. It's the hardest place to live, but it's the best city in the world, so we are all going to do this together.'

Nov 07, 2020

If you want to be the best gymnast in the world, you have to love the moment. Every single moment that you are competing. Every skill, you have to be showing it off. If you aren't showing it off, what are you doing?

Nov 07, 2020

When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.

Nov 07, 2020

My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.

Nov 07, 2020

Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.

Nov 07, 2020

Mom always liked me best.

Nov 07, 2020

We all live in a time where we're supposed to have choices and how do we wrangle that and how do we make the best choices for ourselves and our families. It has nothing to do with feminism.

Nov 07, 2020

I'm pretty caring, loyal and loving to those who are close to me. Two of my friends are from school, so I've known them for more than 30 years. My best friend, Paul Fisher, sat next to me in English when I was ten or 11. If you asked him, he'd say I was loyal. I don't think I've changed over the years.

Nov 07, 2020

Before every performance, you need at least half an hour to focus on what you are about to do: the walk-on and walk-off, the lyrics, how you are going to sing it - like, the original or bring your own personal flavour to it - how are you going to make it the best.

Nov 07, 2020

I know my kids best. I know what morals and values are right for my children. I think we should not have an oppressive state telling us what to do.

Nov 07, 2020

You know when women look their best? When they're in love.

Nov 07, 2020

I threw up before every single football game I played, and I did so up through my NFL career. It was good pressure. It was pressure to be good. It was pressure to be the best. It was pressure to want to win.

Nov 07, 2020

The best moderators are the moderators who are essentially invisible. A moderator who is there to be seen and heard and to be talked about either, 'oh, God, what a great question,' or, 'oh, God, what a lousy question,' that to me is a failed moderator.

Nov 07, 2020

I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling.

Nov 07, 2020

If instead of completely focusing on what you are doing, you are racing ahead to something shinier or to the next best thing, you will not develop excellence.

There's practical wisdom too, like the reminder that casting well accounts for most of a director's job. See Attitude Quotes and Excellence Quotes for related themes.

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