Quotes About Intensity

I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.

The way I look at it is, if you're going to play, you better put 100 percent effort into it all the time.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

I throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.

I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

I'm a lot more serious on the court. I'm probably a lot more intense than some of these guys thought I would be. Off the court, I'm a totally different dude. But my passion's to win, and I'm a perfectionist out there.

I like difficult people because that means they're perfectionists and they're passionate.

For me, it's life or death doing plays: there's this perfectionist thing about me that it has to be brilliant - anything less than that is a failure.

We're perfectionists. We take everything we do so seriously.

I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.

To be perfectly honest, I'm competitive.

Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.

I performed in plays like 'Ashwatthama' and 'Andha Yug.' It was hardcore theatre.

I'm a hardcore performer. The rest follows.

I like to know that my actors or my performers are going into it with the same amount of passion that I have for the project. They're as dedicated to achieving as I am.

I think what actors have to do, what performers have to do to emotionally get to that place and have a camera and have your face 20 feet high on a screen, is such an incredible thing.

Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time.

I'm addicted to the adrenaline of performing, and I think when you're used to having that high, you look for it in other things.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read.

Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.