It’s hard to be a leader when you have to make hard choices and when you have to do what’s right, even though people are not going to like you for it.
Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources – all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.
When I first came to L.A., I was plotting out my career choices as if I actually had a choice. Unless you’re Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, impossibly good-looking, or look like a freak, you have to be malleable and open to everything that comes your way because that’s what makes it possible to pay your mortgage and eat.
Two hundred channel choices in most homes certainly gives you the world of choice. And so slicing it, dicing it, and offering someone their favorite thing – by the way, if it’s not good enough, make it yourself and post it.
Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
I’ve always been a material-based actor. That’s what I’ve done, the choices I’ve made – like a heat-seeking missile.
You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You’ve got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there’s got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.
In this business, I don’t know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But I’ve been lucky with my choices. I’m very strong-willed, so I’ve been able to stick with it. I’m lucky there.
Every day brings new choices.
I’m just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you’re on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.
A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.
It’s good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that’s best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people.
I’m kind of bipolar in my acting choices because I just want to do a little bit of everything.
Transformational leaders are important because they make choices that most other leaders would not.
As a teenager, my blackness was also questioned by some of the life choices I made that weren’t considered to be ‘black’ choices. For example, joining the swim team when it is a known fact that ‘black folk don’t swim’; or choosing to become a vegetarian when blacks clearly love chicken.
We don’t have one of those houses where there’s a rope that separates the kids’ area from the adult area. There’s a happy medium. It’s all about fabric choices, accessories.
To get on a show where you’re acting day in and day out for many, many hours – 15-16 hours sometimes – it hones your endurance, your ability to memorize, your ability to follow your instincts, because you don’t have time to fret about your choices afterward.
I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.
The only time I really eat out is when I’m on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home – salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
I famously tasted shark fin soup many, many years ago before we understood exactly what was going on with the harvesting of sharks. I’ve consequently come out against it. I make personal choices in my life and stand behind them.
When I create a character, particularly my central character, I want someone who is interesting and feels real and who might have quite a few virtues but is unlikely to be perfect, who hasn’t necessarily made all the right choices.
I’m only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven’t sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I’ve made, and I don’t feel like I’ve let go of any of my values.
Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what’s going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their own, and I always go with the character’s choices. Most of the time I discover plot twists and directions that are better than what I originally had planned.
A new model is starting to take root and grow, one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide these choices. I call this emerging model ‘The Mesh.’
Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.
Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.
I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices – public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success.
I think Keira Knightley is amazing, and I’ve heard also that she is one of the coolest, most down-to-earth, brilliant girls, and I really look up to her in that respect. She’s got it all, really, and I think she’s made interesting, bold choices in her work.
You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.
For any of us in this room today, let’s start out by admitting we’re lucky. We don’t live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.
I’m living life as best I can – but I’m not exempt from failure and making bad choices.
You know, I’ve always just made the choices on my characters based on my connection to them, and I’ve made decisions that maybe other people haven’t understood; why I passed on something, for instance.
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective.
Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.
After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn’t do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.
When you buy into the cultural idea of what’s acceptable and unacceptable, you reinforce negative stereotypes and prejudices. That wouldn’t work for me. I don’t love to give advice to anyone, because we all have to make our own choices, but I’d want to live my life in truth.
I loved all the wardrobe choices that were made on ‘Gotham.’ I feel like I always looked fantastic, very streamlined.
Most of what we know about sales comes from a world of information asymmetry, where for a very long time sellers had more information than buyers. That meant sellers could hoodwink buyers, especially if buyers did not have a lot of choices or a way to talk back.
When you’re quite sure about yourself and the values and where you want to go, it’s easy to make difficult choices.
I really like the risk takers. I like people who make those different choices on the carpet. I really like Charlize Theron. I think she’s elegant and edgy as well. I love Zoe Saldana.
Being a Sikh meant having to do what Mom and Dad said, and going to temple, and Mom and Dad choosing who I would marry. But going to an American school taught me that I was the one who’s supposed to make those choices.
I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There’ll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there’ll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.
Families interest me – I’m part of one; most of us come from one. And I’m curious about the choices made in life, how they affect things, and how those choices happen.
And it’s important to remember we are all responsible – or certainly the elected members in Washington of both parties are responsible for making decisions and choices to ensure that the economy grows and jobs are created.
I have very little faith that I’ll ever find someone. I’ve had some bad luck and I’ve made some bad choices – not in men, but in how I’ve chosen to deal with relationships.
I think that Subway has shown their own personal commitment as a company and how they believe in healthy choices.
It’s true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that’s something I am very proud of.
Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.
Everybody’s a mix of good and bad choices that they make.
I’m pro-responsible choice. There is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kind of good choices.
Now that I’m feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.
In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.
I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they’re saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.
