Quotes About Dedication

I just want to be myself. I want to act in films and not expect any special treatment. I carry my own bags on sets, I don't have assistants around me.

I have to do two or three hours of treatments every day just to be able to step onto a tennis court.

I work very hard; I have every day since I started my business, even when I was on bed rest during pregnancies, even when I was dealing with a cancer diagnosis and treatment.

I think what makes a good actor is someone who turns up on time, does the work, and treats everyone within that creative process with ultimate respect.

It's a business. Everybody treats it like a business. You love playing football, you love being around the locker room, and that's really the most important thing for me.

When an actor even after ten years of experience puts in effort and treats every day of her work as the first day in her career, she becomes an asset.

Gravity Falls' didn't just appear overnight - every spooky cave and moss covered tree was created by a team of brilliant artists.

I hope to get the general public listening, the ones curious to see the woman who sat in the tree for two years.

My dad was a tree surgeon. When I was younger, he was working away five days a week for weeks on end, just trying to get as much money.

How do you find a better actor than Michael McKean? How do you find someone who's just that good? They don't grow on trees. Plus, he's a pleasure to work with, pleasure to be around.

I loved the game so much that even though our playing field was muddy and we had many trees on it, I used to play many hours every day.

You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.

Bubbly roles and running around trees don't satiate an actor's quest for the best.

It takes a certain kind of person who loves 'Star Trek' to bring it to life.

I am a nerd, but I don't dive head-first into any fiefdom of nerdiness, except for maybe 'Star Trek.'

I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did 'Reno 911!' for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the 'Star Trek' thing.

I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.

There was a time that I did 'Up,' 'Star Trek' and 'Land of the Lost,' and I was working on 'Lost,' at the same time, and that was really hard.

The key to my perseverance was absolutely loving the craft of acting. I just figured that if I kept doing it, at the very least I would get better at acting. Even if I didn't become a tremendous success, as long as I knew I was improving and getting better, to me, that was success.

I did a lot of good work with my trainer and the physio in Barbados, and they were tremendous help to me during my comeback period.

We have the finest military in the world, an elite group of men and women who continue to be a tremendous source of national pride by routinely putting their lives on the line to protect our freedom.

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

Each new book is a tremendous challenge.

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.