Quotes About Dedication

I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman - those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I'm going to take the steps to get there.

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

We all have that desire for something special, something committed. We all want to be The One.

When I get married, I want to be really married

They were saying you would be a tremendous addition to the military, and we can get you into West Point with a full scholarship. And I simply said, I want to be a doctor. I really appreciate it.

I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down.

Lord, I want to be your slave.

[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.

I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.

[Our employees] do it not because we pay them more, but because they want to be part of something.

I'm the type of guy who wants to make every play.

I'm not going to be a guy who does dances after he strikes somebody out. I'm not like that. I just want to secure a win. That's my job.

It's the nature of it. The players will want to compete at the highest level they possibly can.

With theatre especially, you don't want to do it unless you love it - there's no way you can pull it off, making people happy, making yourself happy for 12 weeks or whatever.

I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.

Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can.

I was always thinking, 'One day I want to be like Bernie Williams.'

Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.

I can do everything I want to do.

The Yankees are one of the best teams. I want to stay with them forever.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

I'm not a comedian. I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do.

I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.

I really respect peple who try. People who say, No, I'm actually going to do the best I can. That said, you want to do the best you can while remaining who you are.