Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
Margaret Atwood
Recitation: by Male by Female
You play to whatever publication you're being interviewed by.
Matthew Rhys
YouPlayWhateverBeingPublication
A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.
Amanda Seyfried
WorkPeopleTeamTreatYouPossible
Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.
Robert Crumb
WorkArtMeStrongEverythingGone
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
Robyn Hitchcock
IntelligencePeopleBiggerGetTend
I'm a creator at heart.
Michelle Phan
HeartCreator
If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.
Millie Bobby Brown
SchoolPlayEverythingUpBeen
Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'
Dick Wolf
ArgumentSayTrueRiskOutGoing
One bit of advice I can give people is to remember that anything worthwhile takes a long time.
Debbie Millman
TimePeopleAdviceRememberLong
My dad brought me up to be a good person.
Courtney Eaton
GoodMeGood PersonPersonUpDad
I didn't say there's nothing out there, but there certainly isn't any God.
Cloris Leachman
GodSayNothingOutAnyCertainly
When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly what it was like to be on a Russian estate in 1830. You are there. And that is the hope when you sit down and write still, I think - that you can transmit something of what life is like now.
Claire Messud
LifeHopeChildhoodI AmBookThink
I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.
Bret Easton Ellis
PeopleSpeakFeelWantWriteRather
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