Quotes About Intensity

I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

When I step on the field, it's on. I know it's time to go to work.

As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

So when I'm working out I do things extreme.

If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.

In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

There's only one way to work -- like hell.

It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.

Stop at nothing to get the best work that you can get. Betray, violate, cause enormous harm.

When I am on set or rehearsing for the play, the only thing I can talk about is the work I'm doing. In that way, I home in on what I am doing at the time. So maybe I am a terrible multitasker.

Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!

I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery.

Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!

Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely

When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.