Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a duck beneath the water.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

I can't say I hate cats, but holy cow, dogs are a horse of another color.

As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.