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I really get my best work done in the morning, so if I have to edit speeches or comments, that all happens before I get to work.
Giving yourself space and time can actually lead to the birth of more creativity, better creativity, and some of your best work.
Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.
I worked on new plays at the Traverse and did my best work in Scotland for years, so I never had ambitions for things like Disney.
You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.
At the end of the day, it is about doing your best work - controlling what you can control and not trying to control what you can't.
Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
I've gotten jobs because I'm a woman, and I've lost jobs because I'm a woman. So just do the best work you can. It won't go unnoticed.
I consider myself really lucky and I always have done. My approach is that if I know I'm relaxed and happy, then I will do my best work.
I'm just looking to be in the best movies possible and do the best work possible and try to become a better actor and make better movies.
You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then you make your best money playing an ant.
I've done some of my best work in films that fell right through the cracks, so I try to not make career moves but to build a body of work.
Labels need to work with artists to help them achieve their best work, not to jam records out that are half-baked or three-quarters baked.
... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.
I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.
People who are exposed to great Wonder Woman stories love her. You have to do your best work and get it out there so people can experience it.
We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.
I'm not an impressionist as such, and I never will be, so the sketches where I was supposed to be a famous person probably weren't my best work.
If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.
Like David Bowie, Madonna visualizes music so that her best work seems equally designed with the stage or screen in mind - not just the jukebox.
I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.
How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!
Often my best work comes from somebody trying to stretch me in a direction that I wouldn't normally want to go in. It's not something I fight at all.
I feel like my best work is in front of me. I'm in the studio now, and I'm having an amazing time making this new album. It's something I can't help.
Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.
I've written the best work I know how. And I'm appreciative of the people who read it and care about the work - and that's pretty much the end of that.
As a competitive athlete, you always want to come out on top and give your best work. So whether it's my sister or any other opponent, I'm competitive.
I'll go for the knockout, and if we have to go 12 rounds, then I'll trust the judges to do their best work, and I will get the victory if I deserve it.
You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!
As an artist in the 21st century, my two goals are to make the best work that I can, improve as much as I can, and to distribute that work as far as I can.
It's cool because I think 'Ex Machina' is a little bit under the radar, which is always when I do my best work - when I feel like no one's paying attention.
When you're managing an emergency department, you're trying to keep everybody calm, so when an emergency comes in the door, everyone can do their best work.
Just make things, and find people you love working with. If you're working on something you truly love and are passionate about, you will do your best work.
When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.
When I was young, I was very blessed to have this insight that my best work would be when I was an older actress. I just always knew that as a young actress.
The best work we can ever do in this world is work on being the greatest version of ourselves so we can continue to give the highest version of this to others.
I don't necessarily think about being a woman as I make decisions, but I do value diversity of opinion and encourage others to speak up and do their best work.
You want to be doing your best work whatever field of the arts you're in because your life's going to be over all too soon, and you have to make the most of it.
There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.
To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it's really gotta be about the work and what you're focusing on.
When I walk onto a set, no matter what it is, I always do the very best work that I can. But I'm not braindead, and I want to do things that I want to do, you know?
Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.
I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.
Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to hang around - and it is hard to stick around.
The basic thing is that I want to do the best work possible, and I can only do that if I'm relaxed and have a lot of energy. And that can only come from taking time off.
I want a desirable place to work to attract and keep them here. So you try to create an environment for people to do their best work, and be generous on the benefit side.
It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.
I really admire people who have the integrity and dignity to hold out for the best work, even if that means you're not going to work for six months. But I don't have that.