Quotes About Duty

Each director is different. Clint Eastwood and Chris Nolan are completely different, and I need to adjust to the story and character and the director and just my duty as an actor.

I couldn't go off and leave Stephen. Coals of fire would have been heaped on my head if I had.

I've told stories about people coming to my office and giving me their coats and requesting that I hang them up and get coffee - which I dutifully do. And then I come in and sit at the head of the table. It's awkward.

Well, in my job, I avoid political commentary.

I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.

I commit myself to serve my country.

I believe in commitment to duty. That's how I've lived my life.

You can't walk away from your responsibilities and commitments.

I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.

I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.

Responsibility is always about concrete action.

It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him.

I cannot and will not violate my duty to protect confidential communications with the president.

The Kyle who made 'Smyle' honestly has a little more conflict in his life. He has a little more weight on his shoulders. He feels like he has to make an album about something. It's a Kyle with duty, with a plan, with a responsibility.

Congress can't take the year off, election or no election.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

I take my 'advice and consent' duty as a U.S. senator very seriously.

I can't worry about the consequences of what I do; that's not my job.

When they were working on the movie 'Lone Survivor,' all I cared about was that it was done right to honor all of the guys.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he's in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he's swinging through the city.

If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.