I don’t want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven’t played than I care if my neck looks like someone’s bedroom curtains. – Sally Field
I’m interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It’s a small proportion of what I do, but it’s always what people seem to focus on. – Sam Taylor-Johnson
We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas. – William Labov
I’ve studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It’s mainly about daydreaming. And the technique’s really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene. – Sam Rockwell
We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder. – Ted Cruz
How do you focus on jobs and creating opportunities for the next generation if it’s just essentially a war on public employees and others? – Steve Bullock
I don’t think I could play a character that I couldn’t relate to somehow. I’m not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it. – Terry O’Quinn
It can be easy to buy into anything. I would lose focus if I went with that attitude of wanting to be famous. – Tristan MacManus
I’m a lazy guy. I can’t focus for too long. I’d rather hear a record that has no filler. – Thomas Mars
Right now, I’m at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn’t on when I’m going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that. – Venus Williams
To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible’s radically disproportionate focus on God’s saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ. – Tullian Tchividjian
I always tell myself, ‘When I’m working on my record, I won’t cut my hair.’ I get so focused on the music that I’m not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on. – Theophilus London
I went to the University of Maryland for a year and was considering maybe, you know, being a medical doctor but decided my other interest was maybe flying airplanes in the Navy and just kind of changed my mind and changed schools and changed majors and decided to focus a hundred percent on that. – Scott Kelly
My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable – I’m still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good. – Zoey Deutch
In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking. – Takashi Murakami
I think in 2016 I’m going to focus on performing a lot more and doing as many shows as I can. There’s plans to tour more, and that’s where my heart is – doing the live shows. – Tori Kelly
I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline. – Viggo Mortensen
I try not to focus on fame; I don’t even really know what it means exactly because it’s so fleeting. – Taylor Momsen
I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I’m dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying. – Uri Geller
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. – Steve Jobs
I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play. – Yani Tseng
I don’t try to focus on anything that doesn’t affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I’m just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control. – Tim Tebow
At the end of the day, my focus will be to make the ‘Evening News’ as strong from an editorial perspective as it possibly can be. – Steve Capus
In London it’s easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you. – Victoria Wood
I remember doing a little student film where we had a guy that couldn’t pull focus. We ended up spending three times the amount of time shooting this thing as opposed to if the guy could’ve just pulled focus. – Stephen Amell
I want to focus on the importance of supporting marriage. I always speak about the need to respect everyone’s human dignity – regardless of their sexual orientation. I think strengthening marriage is something that benefits everyone. – Salvatore J. Cordileone