Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else's life. That's what's fun about sharing art. - Matthew McConaughey
There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or people say, 'Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.' The work is to make it look effortless. That's the hard part. - Matthew McConaughey
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. - Andrew Carnegie
At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It's a gift. - Anthony Bourdain
Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out. - Anthony Bourdain
I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got. - Anthony Bourdain
It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television. - Anthony Bourdain
'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia. - Anthony Bourdain
There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military. - Anthony Bourdain
When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's. - Anthony Bourdain
You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens. - Anthony Bourdain
Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe. - Jackie Chan
I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer. - Jackie Chan
I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting. - Jackie Chan
I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama. - Jackie Chan
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