Quotes About Discipline

I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did 'Go,' so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.

I have to go at a good pace because how you practice, that's how you play.

I work on crossing the ball at pace. That's something that is not easy. And my first touch has improved, as has my understanding of the game.

Americans are very big about loving the dog first, so when you tell them you have to set rules and limitations, a lot of people believe it's going to hurt their feelings. They're actually looking for you to be the pack leader.

Building habits is important. One of mine is a weird, small thing, but it's very helpful: I stop eating just before I'm full. I feel so much better throughout the course of the day if I don't pack myself. It's a good way to get more energy.

I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.

Football: War with cleats and pads.

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

Write a page a day. It will add up.

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

Britney and I are on the same page. There are no grudges. We communicate on disciplining the kids, and if they're grounded here, they're grounded there. She's a completely different person - as the kids will tell you!

Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will feel as though it is writing itself.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day. And it doesn't matter if their dog got run over by a car that day, or they won the Irish sweepstakes. I'm not one of those writers.

I can only write about two or three pages of fiction a day.

Anyone can sit down and write two pages of a novel, then forget about it, and a week later write five pages of a screenplay, then forget about it, and a week later start another novel... etc, etc.

When I'm working on a book, I try to do eight pages a week. That seems like a good amount. Less than that, I'm not getting a nice momentum, and more than that, I'm probably putting out too much crap.

I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.