Quotes About Dedication

I am always in much better shape when I am doing a Broadway show because you have the eight shows a week to kind of keep the body clean and perfect in a sense, you know? For instance, I always eat much better when I am in a show because you can't have dairy - for your voice.

I am an instance of what is possible with a lot of hard work.

We're not one of those groups who have one song on the radio and, boom, they're an instant success. We worked hard from day one and didn't get a lot of respect, possibly because of the way we were marketed.

I didn't know they would pay you money to sit in a room and write songs for other people. I always thought that George Strait was singing a song, he made it up, and that was the end of it. But the instant I found that out, that that could be a job, I thought, 'That's the job for me. I gotta figure out how to do that.'

You can't afford to rest on your laurels at all, or you'll instantly be on the bench.

My father instilled those hard-working values.

My mom worked three jobs. She was a hospital clerk. But we always had the best Christmas and holidays. I like to help as many people as I can in the holidays. She instilled that in me.

It is very easy to make athletes, and it is very difficult to make rugby players with that rugby instinct. I would like to think I have got a bit of rugby instinct and have become more of a rugby athlete along the way.

My first love and my first instinct are acting.

I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.

Put yourself into every situation in training and against every style of bowling, and do that for hours and hours and hours. Then when you get to a match, it's almost instinctive the way you play because you've done it so often in training.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

I work all the time; whatever I do, I do it, and I don't necessarily look at it as work. You could say the Auschwitz project was work, or the Lowy Institute is work, or Westfield is work, or the football is work. It is life.

After my schooling, I started theatre. By the time I graduated, I was doing theatre 24x7. Luckily, the FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) acting course started.

When I first met David Lynch, he was living in the stables of the American Film Institute... He'd work all night and have his crew lock him in during the day, and he'd sleep.

The Costume Institute Benefit became my baby. It was something that I lived, breathed, day and night.

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

It's more than a game. It's an institution.

I'd like to have a successful marriage, not for the sake of labelling or branding, but because I believe in the institution of marriage.

When I was commissioned in the Air Force, I was committed to the institution for a career.

Marriage is a very important man-made institution. Once you are married, you need to honour that.

I've always been in institutional theater.

It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.

Once I sign up for a film, I just go by the director's instructions.