Quotes About Dedication

One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.

I love Baltimore, I want to retire a raven

All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.

I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those weekends, I'll still want to watch movies.

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working.

It's hard enough to do a good show, but it seems like not enough to want to do that.

The key to a good life is finding things that you want to master.

I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.

As a photographer you have to do things you don't want to.

I think I've found my passion in life. I'm going to direct a couple of short film on hiatus. That's what I really want to do.

I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.

When I saw Paul Scofield do Loves Labors Lost at Stratford, thats when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, This is what I want to do.

I took a year and a half off, when my kid was born, because I didn't want to be one of those dads where the kid doesn't know who his dad is.

For one thing, Lush was our only job then. We want it to be great, and we put a lot of energy into it, but it can't take over everything like it did back in the day.

I love playing the piano. I really want to start taking lessons but need to find the time.

I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.

The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.

Brick walls let us prove how badly we want our dream and they stop those who don't want it enough. Brick walls let us show our dedication.

I always wanted to direct. Directing is a lot more of a commitment though, a lot more time. I like directors who do very few takes, they know what they want.

When I can't get the character out of my head, and I'm in my bedroom and I start to actually act out the scenes that I've read in a script, I think okay, I really want to do this.

I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.

I don't like politics especially in chess. All I want is promote chess 24/7.