Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
It's a dismally lonely business, writing.
On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.
Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.
Modeling is a lonely business.
Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.
The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.
I was in business for 30 years, and my experience is that the best way to operate is to work fairly and closely with partners over a long period of time.
You don't get to see your family much. In the movie business, directors often go out of town for long periods of time, and even if you're in town, you're working 14-15 hour days. People tend to not balance out the important things in their lives with their career.
It's a long road of paying your dues. Each and every person that's in this business has to go down that road. Some people may not have to. Some people may be given that road instantly because of who they are.
My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.
For the longest time, I was just real nervous about privacy and people prying into my personal business.
It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.
Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.
It's always interesting to be playing against some of my best friends and some of my longtime teammates. You get to see them before the game and after the game and it's always nice to catch up but when the whistle blows it's sort of all business on the field.
I spent some time studying Toyota, because how could a loom maker - they made looms. That was their business for 50 years, 35 years - and then they decided to go into the car business after everyone else was in the car business.
We can prove that we are in the business of governing responsibly, upholding our rule of law, and giving priority to those immigrants willing to apply legally versus those who leverage our system's loopholes.
In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
