Quotes About Dedication

I think I took eight or nine months to make 'Immunity.' I just focused on mainly that, and it felt amazing.

When I was in juniors, I was fighting twice a year and going nine months without fighting.

Luckily, filmmaking is not a nine-to-five job.

Being my own boss means I'm a nine-to-five dad Monday to Friday, it's the best thing ever. It's the most difficult, insane, wonderful job you could ever do, but it's more important to hang out with your daughter.

I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.

Ninety percent has to come from yourself, your inner-energy, motivation to get the most out of yourself.

Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.

Nintendo is a company of Kyoto craftsmen, and what we don't want to do is, if we know we can make something better, we don't want to leave that behind.

The game is nine innings. It's not two, three. It doesn't matter if it's the fifth through the seventh or the seventh through the ninth. It's not two innings - it's nine.

I've been playing baseball since I was 5 or 6 years old. I've been on a schedule, pretty much, since I was in eighth, ninth grade. I look forward to not doing that.

I've been with the group since 1965. I will be beginning my fifth year on April ninth this year.

I didn't play JV because I went straight to varsity and started as a 10th grader - that was back in the day when you could not play varsity as a ninth grader. I went right from playing junior high football to varsity.

I did high school wrestling. I was first in the state of Florida and ninth in the nation in folkstyle. Freestyle and folkstyle wrestling I did for years.

The first riff that I totally mastered was 'Come As You Are' by Nirvana. I remember sitting there, plunking along, I remember thinking 'How do they even do this?'

I would say that Cynthia Nixon is somebody I admire, and Toni Collette as well. Those women - their work inspires me, whatever they do.

I've seen composers work on 30 films at one go. So, eight or even 10 albums in a year is no big deal.

My father was a small-businessman, and if he didn't get up and go to work, there would be no business.

People have no clue how demanding my schedule was back in the day. There were times when I might be home for just one or two days a month.

Money, autographs, I had no desire to even do that. I fell in love with fighting and those types of things became attached to it.

It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.

I breakfast when I get up, lunch when I get the chance. If I never get it, I forget it. Sometimes I dine at seven, sometimes at midnight, sometimes not at all; and I never get to bed until four or five in the morning. Everything depends on the news; the hours make no difference to me.

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

Oh, I'm a Mopar guy. There's no doubt about it.

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.