Quotes About Dedication

When you grow up around racing, you just want to race for a living. It doesn't matter what it is.

I'm very competitive; it's not enough just to have a few number ones. I want to have 200.

I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.

Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'

Never give up if you really want something, keep plugging away at it and your dreams can come true.

I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion.

I dont know whos left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, weve got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it till nobody shows up to see it anymore.

Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.

Sacrifices have to be made if you want to make a dent in the world, and that's what I started out to do - to make a dent in pop culture.

If somebody tells me they want something or they want something to happen and if it's in my power to make it happen, I start working on it thinking they meant it.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

It's very Canadian of me - or maybe it's more the Catholic schoolgirl in me - but I always really want to do a good job.

I will make myself sick on films, just because you want everything to be right. I can't sleep if something hasn't been done or is out of place.

When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it's not perfect.

I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times.

Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.

I think you have a responsibility to the people you're making movies with, and I take that very seriously. I don't want to let up and I don't want to let down.

I've always been passionate about what I do and want to do it well, ... My wife says she's a widow to the computer.

I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.