Colin Firth Quote

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.

Michelangelo

• People

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

Angelina Jolie

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

Alberto Giacometti

Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.

Dustin Hoffman

But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.

Shia LaBeouf

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Leo Tolstoy

• Art

From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh.

Issey Miyake

• Dance
• Beginning

It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.

Uma Thurman

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.

Colin Firth

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

Jeremy Irons

• Desire

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

Akira Kurosawa

I'm good at working, but I'm very good at playing.

Salma Hayek

If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong.

Sarah Jessica Parker

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

• People

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Saint Augustine

• Beginning

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Dickens

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.

Ninette de Valois

We will work with everybody for the good of New York.

Daniel Libeskind

An actor works with their soul and their thought.

Monica Bellucci

• Soul
• Thinking

I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

Jeremy Irons