'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.

I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

When I'm writing, I don't really have much other guide than, 'As a reader, how would I respond to this?'

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Everything on mobile seems a lot quicker. You have direct access to each individual fan, and they can respond to you just as quickly as you sent a text message.

I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence.

When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combination, Israel must respond.

There are universal shapes to which everybody is subconsciously conditioned and to which they can respond if their conscious control does not shut them off.

Wrestling is like improv. You have to feel and sense what the other person is going to do next and respond faster than they do.

It was like putting your foot into a pond and knowing that I wanted to dive into this. It wasn't even just acting. It was this medium, film. I had to explore it.

I've been so fortunate in that people respond to what I do.

If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that.

A chap was digging a pond for his carp in the garden behind his terraced house in the small town of Raunds, when he unearthed remains of an Anglo-Saxon body. Because he'd seen 'Time Team', he knew exactly what to do with it - he cleaned it very respectfully and then called the local archaeologist, who called us in.

I think that, for us, the thing that no one can take away from you is that if you make something that they've never heard before, they're gonna respond to that. They may not love it, it may not be their favourite thing, but no one can take different from you.

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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.