Quotes About Dedication

I've always said, in the era that I played, all those years with the Saints, you don't come out with a big ego.

We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team.

What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.

I can't do a film just for the sake of it.

So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.

You never find virtuosity for its own sake.

Films are my life; I don't think there is anything that I would not do for the sake of the movie.

There's no making art for art's sake. You've got to make the best art you can.

I won't ever play something just for the sake of playing it, why would I do that?

I would never make a movie just for the sake of making a movie.

I have commissioners who had very good jobs, making good salaries, and gave up something to work for the state.

I've never seen someone work for a salary.

Dhanush paid my salary in 2015 when I needed it to make 'Visaaranai.'

People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.

I think every actor worth his or her salt wants to do good, meaningful cinema.

Sam Shepard is - I didn't tell this to Sammy, but if I had to point to one artist that made me want to do this for my life, it's Sam Shepard.

We gotta execute, and our guys have to be on the same page and play 100 percent.

I've just really always enjoyed coming into the gym. I don't know if it's the behavior of shooting, dribbling, the challenge of getting a whole team on the same page.

I know all the girls; we all have something to play for, we all have this goal, and we're all on the same page as to what we want at the end of the day. But as for me, I have something a little bit more to play for, and that's my kid.

I always say the same thing - believe in what you do, do it, and don't veer away from the truth of it.

I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

If I was 14 or 15 again, I would do the same thing. I've done everything. I think I've accomplished more than I had in mind.

Whenever you work with someone who you idolize, you realize... he's just a person trying to make a movie as best he knows how. And that doesn't look so different from other people trying to do the same thing.