You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

The most important thing in life is to love what you're dong, because that's the only way you'll ever be really good at it.

I love working, I'd be dead if I hadn't found myself as an actor I didn't have to be successful.

What one skill, if I developed and did it in an excellent fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on my career?

Focus on key result areas: Identify those results that you absolutely, positively have to get to do your job well, and work on them all day long.

Upgrade your key skills: The more knowledgeable and skilled you become at your key tasks, the faster you start them and the sooner you get them done. Determine exactly what it is that you are very good at doing, or could be very good at, and throw your whole heart into doing those specific things very, very well.

Single handle every task: Set clear priorities, start immediately on your most important task, and then work without stopping until the job is 100 percent complete. This is the real key to high performance and maximum personal productivity.

Do what you can, with what you have, right where you are.

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment.

The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.

I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

A man came up to her. Expensively tailored suit. Okay, he wasn't exactly a man because he was only thirty-five. But he was trying.