I think I’m in better shape now than I was 10 years ago, but it takes a bigger toll – I get back pain!

When the positive mind takes the lead, the legs are safe to follow without any shaking!

Animated films are so precisely engineered – right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes – how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?

I think marrying somebody who’s not a celebrity, it just takes a lot of the pressure off.

Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can’t leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs...

I haven’t given up on working… across the aisle on issues and maybe it’ll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to...

As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I’ve got it. I don’t think there’s any reason to take ten takes unless you need them.

The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and African American.

We will not have humanoid androids. It’s interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot...

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness...

There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.

I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for, like, a half hour to the top of this mountain, and you...

I’m as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging...

Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.

It’s my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don’t need as long as you’re...

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job… and you...

It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.

I’m not a person who needs to chit-chat between takes by any means.

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

I’m terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I’m not a big phone person.

What it takes just to earn a living – working two or three jobs – is driving a wedge in families that shouldn’t be there.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Everybody’s just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.

When I feel like I’m renowned enough, I’d love to do a heritage-type line, but that takes time.

The Philippines-U.S. Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement takes our security cooperation to a higher level of engagement, reaffirms our country’s commitment to mutual defense and security, and promotes regional peace and stability.

It takes not being a coward to make a great move forward

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

When I come in from the beach at night, I’m too hungry to wait for anything that takes very long.

I always ask for more takes. I like doing takes, so I’ll do as many as I can.

You are – all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one’s put into it.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it’s not going to get that much better.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that’s when the beast comes out and takes hold of...

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it’s for five years.

I want to be strong enough to cope with the roles, but I don’t want to be cast as the guy that takes his shirt off.

Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.

I’m a character actor, so I don’t take the hit if the movie’s bad, the lead does. So, I don’t want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don’t.

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

You don’t build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.