“Then I saw Keanu Reeves in 'Much Ado About Nothing' and I know if he can do it, I can do it too.” IfsKnowsI CanCan DoSawsI Can Do It Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some!” MindTwoMotherCan DoStruggleSawsLessonsOvercomingGrandmotherHardshipInvaluableAmazing Woman Author:Gloria Estefan
“You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what hed done the night before. I thought, I can do that! I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.” IfsKnowsFirstsI CanDoneShowsJobsUsedNightCan DoSawsStreetsTalentPagesEdgesCornersTonightDesksBuddyOne NightBronxStreet Corners Author:Regis Philbin
“I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it.” WellsI CanCan DoSawsGenesInhibitionsI Can Do This Author:Mick Jagger
“My feeling is that it's one of the very few things that comics can do that you really can't do in any other medium. I feel like the reader accepts all of these styles, and after a certain point you can flip the pages and see a character rendered very differently than you saw on an earlier page, and it's not jarring. It suggests things that you can't suggest just in the writing or in the plotting.” FeelsWritingCharacterFeelingsCertainCan DoAcceptingSawsStyleReaderPagesMediumsFlip Author:Daniel Clowes
“I guess maybe someone at 'Dexter' saw the 'Mad Men' stuff and thought, 'He can do this.'” MenStuffCan DoSawsMadMad Men Author:Colin Hanks
“I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what I can do." So I wrote a list of ingredients in the book, and warnings that they shouldn't consume those ingredients. The editor and the publisher thought that it was a great way to go in terms of reverse psychology, but it honestly hadn't occurred to me that it was reverse psychology. I just thought that it was sort of an honest assessment making clear that if you were timid or easily disturbed, you could turn away.” IfsWayWellsI CanBookTurnsTermCan DoClearPsychologySawsHonestListsHonestlySubstanceIngredientsEditorsWarningReversePublishersDisturbedAssessmentPoisonousPharmacyReverse Psychology Author:Daniel Handler