Personal Approach Quotes

I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.

I have my own batting style and don't want to be compared with Kohli.

When I was composing for 'The Villain,' I looked at it as a fan and came up with tunes accordingly.

You can be an emotional, high-strung guy, and that might work for you. I think I can be reserved and quiet and play as well as the next guy.

The way I played the game, the way I live my life, is very emotional.

All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that.

There was a point of frustration, where I thought I should just take a film, even though I didn't want to. I was impatient with being at home. But I hung on to the approach I've always had, which is to wait for a project that I could contribute something unique to.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well.

I don't know if it's because of the way we grew up - we just don't like talking about ourselves or talking about what we're doing... It's not really our approach.

I'm not a trained actor. I have neither read acting books nor gone to acting school. But I have certain fundamentals on how I approach a character; the basic skeleton of my preparation is based on observations from real life.

I think in a lot of ways, I handle the leadership role a little different than others. I'm not going to rah-rah or slap you across the helmet or push you. I'm going to talk to you.

Everything I do in investment is just very different.

I tend to deal with things in a very serious manner.

I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

I have a process that I seem to always, to some degree, as a writer, adhere to, but I certainly have never imposed the way I write a novel on my students. When I had students, I never said, "You should never start writing a novel until you have the last sentence." I never did that, and I wouldn't do it now, but people now seem so interested in the process [of writing fiction] that I have to constantly make it clear when I describe mine that I'm not being prescriptive. I'm not proselytizing.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

I don't usually collab with producers, because I don't need to. I never have, because I don't want to break my style of how I do things.

I like taking a path into new country, and I always take the darker path. Not because it's dark, but because there's a secret there that you can share when you get out. That's what I liked as a kid. That's how I approach my work. With a face like mine, it's lucky I have a heart that likes that.

I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.

I have my way of doing things.

If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.

I'm past doing one chin-up more than I did the day before. I just kind of do what I feel like.