You will become what you often think about.

My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world. Then they…

— Kem Nunn

For many of us, work is the one place where we feel appreciated. The things that we long to experience at home - pride…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards,…

— Edgar Meyer

It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so…

— Saku Koivu

Every scene is a challenge. There are technical challenges, but often it's the simplest challenge where you feel a sense of achievement when you…

— Roger Deakins

Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when…

— Daphne Gottlieb

Sometimes when you're in different countries, everything has become so homogenised and there's a Starbucks and McDonald's everywhere, and you could feel like you're…

— Will Yun Lee

Once you become famous, you can't become unfamous. You can become a failure.

— Alexander Hanson

When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions…

— Kelli O'Hara

With every interview you feel like you lose a piece of yourself, and with every bad review you become just that little bit more…

— Jane March

This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what…

— David Lange

If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to…

— Laurie Helgoe

If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And…

— Warwick Davis

I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to…

— David S. Goyer

I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have…

— Julianne Moore