Stan Lee Quotes

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.

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

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

When I'm working, it's just about doing the best I can with whatever dialogue is in front of me today. You can't worry about the other thing.

I love movies, but sometimes I think it's better for actresses not to be total cinephiles. You have to be able to do the work at some point; you can't be totally starstruck. 'I can't believe it's Woody Allen!' You have to get past that.

As a professional, I have always tried to stay concentrated on the pitch, but it was not easy.

All of the off-field stuff, I can promise you, it doesn't even register with me.

My detractors would be mistaken to believe that the allegations against me that had no basis and were all lies would distract me. I continue to do my job.

When you start thinking it is a party instead of putting your suit and tie on and getting your job done and handling your business, you are thinking about the wrong thing.

On the pitch we tend to forget the things that happen off the field. I try to focus a lot on what I'm doing.

I don't want to bring my personal issues to the field during game time. I don't want to take focus from anybody else.

My job's to play basketball. My job's not to be here to be friends with anybody.

When I go on loan, I don't really think about Chelsea. I just concentrate on the team I'm at and try to help them, same as when I was at MK Dons, Derby, and Middlesbrough.

Sometimes, you go down to Florida and Tampa and you get a couple days off, you can get complacent.

Damian Lewis is a consummate professional. He is kind. He's compassionate. He's able to engage in real conversation when we're not rolling, and then, the minute we're rolling, he's totally present and reacting truthfully in the moment and listening.

I think sometimes people get distracted in interviews.

I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

If I'm working, then I'm working, and my focus is on that.

I have a job to do. ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

For many of us, the opposite of talking isn't listening. It's waiting. When others speak, we typically divide our attention between what they're saying now and what we're going to say next - and end up doing a mediocre job at both.

A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.

Can we please focus? We are supposed to be professionals." Holly said. "Not me!" said Orion cheerily, "I'm just a Teenager with hormones running wild and may I say, young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction.