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I don't hesitate to do nudity as an actor if it's done well.

It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology.

'Oh! Darling' was a great one of Paul's that he didn't sing too well. I always thought I could have done it better-it was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he's going to sing it.

I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too.

I love theater. I think theater, when its done right, is the best, like a religious experience. When it is done badly, it's the worst thing. It's just an incredible experience.

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

Ninety percent of your job is done if you find the right cast.

After three takes, [George Clooney] is like, 'We got it,' and I'm still thinking, 'I'm just getting used to this. I shouldn't have done it in a Russian accent.' No, he's great. He's a good guy.

[George Clooney] knows exactly what he wants and so he knows that you've done a good job before you do.

One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for the prestige which accrues to the man who presides over meetings, and this leads them to convoke assemblages over which they can preside. Finally, there is the meeting which is called not because there is business to be done, but because it is necessary to create the impression that business is being done. Such meetings are more than a substitute for action. They are widely regarded as action.

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

Part of my role at T-Mobile is the ability to just be myself, because I'm 58 years old and I've done very well, and I don't need to fight my way up the hierarchy with my suit and hair anymore.

I've done lots of films with first directors, so it's not unusual for me.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.

Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done.

I remember Stephen King did a fundraiser one time with J.K. Rowling and he was very impressed with her. But we talk a lot about publishing, bookselling, and book writing. He's been around for ten years longer than me and was a bestseller right off the bat. And he's seen and done everything. It's rare to be with somebody who has been through all of that.

When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.

There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving.

It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.

Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

Erak. The one they call the Oberjarl," the Arridi answered him. Impulsively, Axl took a pace forward, raising his ax threateningly. You'll have to go through the rest of us to take him!" he shouted defiantly. Well done, Axl," he said. "You've just told them I'm here.