Rea Quotes

I`ve learned something in the last few years that I really didn`t know about myself as an actor. I basically learned how to stay happy. It`s important for me to be happy working or I feel resentful. I don`t like it. I hate myself. What I know now is that I really need to love the director. I need him to be a good parent. And then I will lie down on the train tracks for him and go to the ends of the earth for him.

I`ve learned a lot about the consistency of being in a championship race, about getting a good finish every time while still trying to get faster every race. One of the things that Peter told me was that you could be in seventh and could go for sixth by really trying to stick (the car) in there. But if you get booted out, then that`s a whole bunch of points you lose out on by finishing 14th or 15th. Those places are a lot worse than seventh. You have to think about that.

Of course, it would be unfair for me to comment. Douglas (Douglas Adams) told me in the strictest confidence exactly why 42. The answer is fascinating, extraordinary and, when you think hard about it, completely obvious. Nonetheless amazing for that. Remarkable really. But sadly I cannot share it with anyone and the secret must go with me to the grave. Pity, because it explains so much beyond the books. It really does explain the secret of life, the universe, and everything. (On the meaning of 42 in The Hitchhiker`s Guide to the Galaxy (2005))

You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that`s what I`ve done here. But it`s worth it to me to be in a really good play.

This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn`t been Jewish and the man hadn`t been Muslim, it wouldn`t have made any difference to the film. I don`t think it`s relevant, really.

(Imagine you`re negotiating on someone else`s behalf: It`s hard for everyone to negotiate for themselves, but women especially so, Miller noted. So pretend you`re representing a client`s best interests.) If you do your homework you will know what is fair and reasonable to ask for, ... Don`t settle for less.

This year we`re going to begin a shuttle system that will run all over campus for our students. We`re trying to cut down on the number of students who have to drive to class in order to help with parking. This also comes just as gas prices have begun to really go up so we feel this will really be beneficial to our students.

Suppose that I am training frontline managers to deliver better or higher quality performance feedback. It`s assumed that they`re going to go out and deliver better performance feedback. But the follow-up isn`t in place to help them really practice in a real situation (or) get the coaching and feedback they need.

The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven`t got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next.

Yes has been sleeping in this kind of awful mode that I think is slightly disrespectful to our beautiful fans. It`s all ... political is not the right word, but it`s all contrary to different people`s opinions of what`s right and what`s wrong. I think that`s really a shame.

I still look at them regularly when I take them to schools, to talk to kids. I always bring them to the schools because the kids love seeing them. So that`s kind of neat. I still look at them and have a little moment. I think the older you get, the more you realize how important those medals are. With each Olympics you watch, you have to appreciate how great those athletes are.

(Unfortunately, banks located in the most heavily storm-damaged areas might not be able to open or restore online services for some time. That applies especially to small banks and thrifts without a regional or national network.) If this applies to you, ... you really should contact one of the emergency service organizations, such as FEMA or the Red Cross , and request assistance.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.