Joanna Coles Quotes

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during rehearsal. A code of silence.

1. Be on time. 2. Never criticize a teammate. 3. Never use profanity.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

I think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer.

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.

A word of advice: your interview is about you. It's not about the school you went to, what you majored in, what your GPA was, or who your parents happen to be or know. Most of that stuff is right on your resume, and it might even have gotten you into the room, but it won't get you much farther.

When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.

I am not a multi-tasker. When I do one thing, I fully concentrate on it and leave the other thing aside.

A couple of years ago, I went to dinner with a very high-profile source, and out of respect, I put my phone down for, say, an hour and a half. And during this dinner there was a major breaking story related to the Secret Service. When I picked my phone back up, I had missed about 50 emails and seven phone calls from the network.

Good parents are always on time. So are good CEOs.

We have to play football and not talk. We don't talk about politics, the personal opinions, and debates - you take them home. We only talk about football. That's what we are here for.

You have to focus on your job, and if you focus on your job, you block everything out.

Getting through the reads in an efficient manner. I don't want to stay on receivers too long to where a bad decision is made.

That's the most important thing - once you're on the pitch, you need to do your job properly.

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.

When you are working, I must tell you, if someone wants to talk to me, to 99.9% I say no.

If you are being interviewed, just be polite, have fun.

When I'm wearing my uniform I'm still locked into the game.

I like to watch actors while they are acting, how they hold their attention when so many people around are there to distract them. It's difficult.

I'm too professional, too much of a perfectionist to take my eye off the ball.

I'm definitely not joking around on set.

I think sometimes people get distracted in interviews.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

In effect, dividing your attention means that neither (or none) of the things you're working on is really getting the full effect of your intelligence, and that it in the end takes you longer than it would if you did one thing at a time.