“The casting is the most important thing. If you cast a picture really well a lot of things take care of themselves. You get actors that like to give a lot to the role and who appreciate the role on the same level that you do. If you miscast it, you're working an uphill battle a little bit and maybe you can come out okay but you can't always come out great.” IfsGivingWellsLittlesImportantCareActorsBitsLevelsRolesBattleLittle BitAppreciateOkayImportant ThingsCastsTake CareCastingUphill Battles Author:Clint Eastwood
“For modeling, I was always creating characters. I dress like a tomboy. So, when I'd go into a shoot, there'd be all these dresses, and I'd say to myself, 'Okay, this isn't me. It's somebody else. So, who is this person?' Acting is the next level of that.” PersonsCharacterNextLevelsActingCreatingOkayDressesModelingNext LevelCreating Characters Author:Agyness Deyn
“Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating aspect of that. I've always been a control freak, I've always felt that if I try hard enough, everyone I love will be kept safe and everything will be okay. Being shown, in such brutal terms, that that's simply not the way it works, in someways, it messed me up. I've been through hell, but on another level, if you pile up so much tragedy, it either destroys you, or you just start laughing about it. Because at the end of the day, no one gets out alive.” IfsWayWantTryingEndsHardEnoughFeltTermRealizingLosesLevelsLaughingHellAliveSafeAspectOkayTragedyThe End Of The DayAttachmentFreakBrutalLiberatingControl Freak Author:Daniele Bolelli
“People are finally able to look around and say, 'I can see the drought, I can see the rising sea levels, I can see the crops dying. Okay, now I get it.' It is finally beginning to sink in that there has been a lot of damage.” PeopleLooksHas BeensI CanAbleLevelsSeaDyingOkayDamageRisingCropsDrought Author:Robert Redford
“Mads [Mikkelsen] and I have a really epic brawl - a week shoot, lots of rehearsal - and he was just delightful. He's a dancer and a gymnast so he knows how to plant the moves. He was always saying, "Are you okay?" When you've got that level of mutual consideration you form a family very quickly.” KnowsMovingFormLevelsKnow HowWeekOkayPlantDancerConsiderationMutualEpicDelightfulRehearsalGymnast Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I speak a lot about what I call "the trance of unworthiness" which is really epidemic in our culture, this sense of "I'm not enough," or "something's wrong with me." Most of us have some level of it because our culture has all these standards (handed down through our families) of what it means to be okay.” MeanEnoughCultureSpeakLevelsStandardsOkayOur FamilyEpidemicsTrance Author:Tara Brach
“There's no question that to some extent there are structural disadvantages built in, not just for women but for other minority groups who don't hold power at the executive level either at the company or in the industry. My position is not just "Oh, okay, anyone can overcome those." It's just as we work to get more women and people in minority groups at higher levels in positions of power, what are our options?” PeopleLevelsCompanyGroupsPositionIndustryHigherBuiltOkayOvercomingMinoritiesExecutivesDisadvantagesHigher LevelPosition Of PowerMinority Groups Author:Megyn Kelly
“I've discovered that I can't trust the ratings board at all, because they have - to my mind - a perverted point of view about what's appropriate for children. They think that if you see any part of a male or female anatomy, we have to protect children from it, which is not true, and they think almost any level of violence is okay for children, which is absolutely not true... They're really off the mark.” IfsThinkingMindChildrenI CanLevelsViewsViolenceProtectFemaleOkayMarkMalesPoint Of ViewBoardsAppropriateRatingAnatomyProtecting Children Author:William H. Macy
“De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.” I CanLevelsMinesTvsHeroHorrorProtectOkayIntensitySeanProtect YourselfDe Niro Author:Christopher Meloni
“The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job. If you're still at the point when you're even just barely going through the motions--showing up at work, paying the bills--you are still okay or okay enough. A desire not to acknowledge sadness in ourselves or those close to us--better known these days as denial, is such a strong urge that plenty of people prefer to think that until you are actually flying out of a window, you don't have a problem.” PeopleIfsThinkingStillsEnoughProblemJobsDesireStrongSimpleAbilityLevelsAttentionResponsibilityKnownSadnessMindfulnessWindowOkayBillsProductivityFlyingPlentyDenialThese DaysAcknowledgeUrgesSanityShowing UpThis SocietyTouchstonesPlain And Simple Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America