Quotes About Intensity

I want to play against the best, and that's what I'm doing, just going out there and being focused, just competing every possession.

The experience of playing EuroLeague ball gave myself a different perspective on just the way the game's played. Every possession matters. Everything has to be on point. Offence, defensively - everybody has to be connected.

You have to have guys that will compete every night, every possession.

Honestly, Thibs is a dog. He's a guy that is an extreme competitor and very aware of everything that's going on. Takes each possession like it's our last, and really coaches with the type of intensity and passion that you want from a coach.

The biggest thing for me is just playing hard every possession.

Football is not about possession or playing a nice passing game. Football is about winning games.

We all have to go into the game and play hard, no days off, no possessions off and when we get a little lead don't get comfortable.

Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.

Where there is love, there is a possibility of violence but it's not that love is connected to violence but there's a possibility.

When I finish a film, I want to feel drained. I want to feel like I couldn't have possibly done any more to service a character and a story.

When we get on stage, naturally, you just get out there and work it as hard as you humanly possibly can do it.

There was a scene in 'Qubool Hai' where Asad shoots his father. After shooting for it, I was drained completely. At times, my character's mood gets very depressing. Post shoot, it takes a good half hour to get out of character, to leave Asad behind.

I feel I need a lot of contrast, so I have all these things happening, but they're all necessary to make me feel satisfied. It's got to be this big pot happening, with everything boiling at once.

Particularly in these high school-set movies, there's something about being in high school that's like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion and joy and heartbreak that you feel so intensely. Because you don't have any awareness yet, you don't realize that it's a finite time and feeling.

If I'm just doing the sprints and not have such a massive program, I can really pour everything into it.

I like hitting people. The best feeling is when you hit so hard, pow! You get a jarring headache.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.

Focus. It's powerful to do just one thing and pour all your energy into it.

That's what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of also being over-the-top, hysterically funny.

The more I'm aggressive, the better off we're going to be. I have to take that into consideration every game to make it a point to be aggressive.

This exploded in me almost more music than I could consume.

Being in this industry isn't for everyone, that's for sure. Wrestling consumes your whole life... for me that's fine, it's what I want, but for others not so much.

I worked very hard playing Arjun, and I was consumed by the character.