Quotes About Dedication

Writing with kids is an adventure. It seems like someone always has the flu or pink-eye. I mean, you don't even have to be in direct contact with anyone to get pink-eye. But for parents who write, flexibility becomes essential, and as long as I have a pad of paper and a pen, I can write anywhere. Starbucks is fine.

I worked check-to-check, worked in dead-end jobs my whole life before I got into stand-up, and even during stand-up, I was working at a retail job and Starbucks, all those places.

I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

If you leave out the magnetic stardom of sportsmen and actors, middle-class India today really has just two heroes - the army and the judiciary.

It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.

You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

I really want to do good work. I really do. My priority isn't stardom.

I want to become actor not because I want money and become more famous. No I don't want that. It is not that l want stardom, I want to contribute to good cinema.

People want stardom or fame or whatever - instant gratification as opposed to learning one's craft, which, when I was starting out, was the most important thing: that you are as fully equipped for your job or your art as possible.

I don't concentrate about stardom as I always wanted to be an actor and remain to be the same.

I believe stardom is a by-product of good work.

I don't believe in stardom or in the number game. What I concentrate more is on my work and how I can improve my character.

Phil Handy played for me in England and has obviously risen to stardom in his area of what he does.

What I learnt was a real star never comes on set wearing stardom.

I'm a huge geek, so I love 'Stargate' and 'Firefly.'

When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.

We go to the office every day when we're writing - or supposed to be writing. It's not always productive, and there's a lot of procrastinating, just staring at the wall, like any other writing. But we just make ourselves go to the office every day for more or less the whole day.

You have to go to sleep at night staring at the wall, thinking, 'Damn, I can't wait for it to be morning so I can have the ball at my feet again!' You can only play your best football in these conditions.

Sometimes fans for male pop stars or actors can be a little crazy. I was that way with Jesse McCartney and N'Sync.

I love Salma Hayek; we've been friends for a really long time. I admire how she has come such a long way and always remained grounded and who she is. She never compromises to follow her vision, and she is loyal. Such qualities only mark the great stars.

I can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to digging deep and being involved. So many stars I know do so much. It's our duty to give back.

Chefs don't become chefs just to earn stars - that's not the goal.

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people's children stars.

Rock stars, like anyone else, have to show discipline and take consistent good actions.