Kirsten Dunst Quote

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

Russell Crowe

• Praise

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

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

Angelina Jolie

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Dante Alighieri

The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.

Liv Ullmann

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

Liam Neeson

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet. I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.

Liza Minnelli

People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.

Calvin Klein

• Health

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

Robert De Niro

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

Calvin Klein

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happinesses to the unhappy.

Mark Twain

• Happiness

I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.

Nadia Comaneci

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

Richard Gere

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

George Eliot

• World

People ask me this, but I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.

Mira Nair

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Vincent Van Gogh

• Nature
• Reality
• Listening

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

Omar Sharif

• Life
• Passion

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Dale Carnegie

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

Hugh Grant