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 loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous. Vince Vaughn
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. Seneca Difficulty
Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them. Constantin Brancusi Mind Creation
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. Simone de Beauvoir
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. Paul Cezanne