Richard Coyle Quotes

Once the film is released, once my job is over, I can't see the film again.

I have seen this whole process of films releasing, becoming hits or flops, for too long now to expect things to do well. If I expect a film to do well, then it is for somebody else's sake, not for my own. I do my work, and if you feel that my work is improving from film to film, then I have done my part of the job.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

I've never even watched one of my films since they're completed.

I treat acting as my job. I say that, as I have found there is a beauty in separating yourself from the world and from acting.

My part as an actor ends on the last working day. I think the success or failure only really matters to the producer or whoever it matters to. For me, when I finish the film, I'm done, and if I'm happy, that's that.

It's tough to watch a movie you're in - you put everything into it, you want everything to work, and you never know until you see it all together.

Sometimes I struggle to watch stuff that I've done and sometimes I don't, and I'm sure that my judgment is based on whether I feel like I accomplished what I set out to accomplish.

I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

I just get on with my game and let the referees do their job.

Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.

It was so hard to watch myself back because whatever movie I do, I never look at the monitor. I hate looking at the monitor.

I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.

I know there are a lot of people who like to get very involved in their characters, but I, personally, find it too involved. I just like to do it as a job - and it's my job to make it look real.

I just had to learn to look at it as a job, as opposed to identifying myself as a model and thinking of myself as a part of this industry.

People forget that it's an acting assignment. You can work with someone for three months, three years or 30 years, and then you move on. I've done I don't know how many films, and I can look at the film and know that I worked with Clint Eastwood, but I'm not still trying to hang out with Clint Eastwood. We did our jobs.

You can’t be disturbed by anything. There’s no emotion involved. You can’t feel sorrow, you can’t feel pity, there’s nothing you feel. The job has to be done.

Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.

I can never watch anything I've been involved in, because I know it, and I know what the making of it was like, and I know what's been cut out and changed. I just know it.

He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.

That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.