Your post-college YEARS should be an exploratory TIME in your professional life. From your early twenties and on into your early thirties, you should FEEL free to explore your professional prospects. Keep an open mind, and don't expect to GET everything right straight out of the gate. Be prepared to START over once or twice.

If we should have to FIGHT, we should be PREPARED to so so from the NECK up INSTEAD of from the neck down.

If anyone is crazy ENOUGH to WANT to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be PREPARED to do is give his LIFE for the president's.

I SAY to PEOPLE today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in SOMETHING. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As INDIVIDUALS, we may not live to see the end.'

You SHOW PEOPLE PLAYING POKER or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and then when you see it on the screen, it loses something. But there's something about cooking - food being prepared is incredibly captivating. It became just a fun box of TOOLS to use as a director.

I am PREPARED to resort to ANYTHING, to submit to anything, for the SAKE of the commonwealth.

I've worked countless HOURS in the gym, so I feel like I'm already PREPARED for the GAME. So when I'm listening to MUSIC pregame, it's REALLY just about personal enjoyment.

My mom TAUGHT me to LIVE by the three p's: to ALWAYS be passionate, persistent, and prepared.

Because if you're prepared and you know what it TAKES, it's not a RISK. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is ALWAYS a way to get there.

Sir Hugh Greene is the man I HOLD most responsible for the state of our country TODAY. For 11 YEARS hardly a week went by without a sniping REFERENCE to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say ANYTHING morally subversive.

Some PEOPLE are just more PREPARED to TAKE RISKS than OTHERS. I grew up a gambler. That's my name: Maverick.

When you're USED to being PREPARED to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you OPEN to LEARN more.

Be PREPARED and be HONEST.