Quotes About Intensity

I typically go overboard when I research new projects.

I love being kind of reserved and serious and then having these explosions of passion when it comes time to perform.

For me, I'm more reserved and focused once I get to the game.

There's something about football that's exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you're trying to blow people up.

I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.

I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.

I would say I work very emotionally: I have a very compulsive way of working, where I love something to the moment I am sick of it. I have no addiction outside of work, so my addiction is that process.

If you're playing against an aggressive side, you need to play an aggressive game.

It might be okay for somebody else on the roster to sit on the sideline but it's not okay for me to be. I'm the franchise player, I'm the guy on both the microphone and in the ring.

The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.

I think it's very, very tough to compare postseason and in-season, just for the simple fact that there's the heightened levels of energy on both sides of the ball.

Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.

I just got to be engaged on both sides of the floor.

I had to always decide - am I playing Will in the scene, or is it the monster, or is it a little bit of both? I had to show two different sides of one person in a scene. They were definitely very opposites, because Will is this sweet little innocent sort of kid, and the monster is fierce; he's intense. You really have to show both sides.

I hate getting the ball and passing it sideways or backwards. I hate it.

When I work on stories, I tend to lose sight of everything else. I forget to pay bills or to shave. I don't change my clothes as often as I should.

I think if you are a player going to Duke, you have to expect a little bit to be not liked when you go and play in opposing team's gyms. Like, when I signed with Duke out of high school, I knew it would be playing in hell where they hate you. That's what I loved about it.

Our shows are just like that. The screaming is constant, nonstop, and there's not one minute of silence during the show. It's pretty intense.

Luke and Vader's light saber duel in 'Return of the Jedi' gives me chills every time. Even the still photo of the two of them in silhouette, sabers crossed, gives me a rush.

I don't want to take myself too seriously, thinking that I'm always having to be this cathartic, intense and deep person, because I certainly enjoy silliness.

When you say was it you being silly or letting yourself go, or is it you being intense? I would say it was me being me. I would say that me being me is probably yes to all of that. So having fun, playing with passion, it matters to me, competitive.

Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.

The amateur plays for fun. The professional plays for keeps.

life's intensity, like a sine wave, closes in on a limit without ever reaching it.