Work

Wear tea dresses to go paint. I always thought painting was quite artistic and you need to look as such when you're painting.

Passion is the most important ingredient in everything you do.

I feel like the role chooses you in a way.

When you work with really great directors, you feel a little ashamed for your profession.

There are so many things to think about when you make a film, especially one that gets so much attention like 'Scott Pilgrim'.

When you love what you do, it can be kind of all-consuming because you want to do it all the time.

Happiness takes work. It takes love, it takes effort, it takes pain, it takes commitment.

You are in the dark, in the car, watching the black-tarred street being swallowed by speed; he tells you his dean is making him hire a person of color when there are so many great writers out there.

The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels...

You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.

The imposter syndrome is that feeling that you're one phone call away from being fired.

If you wanted to get married at 25 and have four kids and own a bakery, that is okay by me. Just make sure you can pay for your own shit.

Whatever I do, I try to do it for the Lord, and I try to do it with a level of excellence.

I always believe that if you work hard enough and you maintain a positive attitude, things will get better.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Success is not an accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.

Competition makes me strong. It makes me work harder than others.

Practice does not make perfect. Only the right practice makes perfect.