Quotes About Intensity

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

Some women have a pulsing energy almost too sharp and salty to endure and when they are in pain their pain is ferocious and shatters all over the place.

A woman either loves or hates: she knows no medium.

If you are not prepared, you cannot work out intensely. If you do not perform, you cannot get results, and if you can't do your best to recover, you won't get the benefits of your hard work.

I just show up to the yard, work hard, and play as hard as I can.

You can only make a good noise on the guitar if you're committed. Little careful noise doesn't work. You have to be bold.

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.

I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.

Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out.

I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.

Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way.

Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

The important thing is to be relaxed in your work. Same in life. Don't make everything too intense. Then you can let everything go and not "act".

Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

Screw the Rangers, and screw the Devils; I work for the Islanders now, and I could care less about them!

Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.