Quotes About Dedication

But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.

The harder you work when nobody's watching the less you bleed when it's time to perform.

Everyone wants to go to the party and the red carpet, but my life is 90% the work.

Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

If I just work when the spirit moves me, the spirit will ignore me.

I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into.

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.

It is really like a family. We are around each other more than we are around anybody else. The time we spend together, and the hard work we put in together, it is going to build a close team.

The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.

I was a big "Blue Valentine" fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.

It's all just venom to the soul and symptomatic of a larger issue: the idea of the shortcut. The result without the fight. The fight is the thing. The work.

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

Waking up in the morning, you didn't have to even think, you did it. Being able to get to work, didn't even have to think, you did it. That's miraculous.

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

When I work, I disappear into work, which I like to do, and sometimes I don't really have a choice. It's not a conscious thing. It's just total devotion to what I'm doing.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

Don't tell me you're going to be on the honor roll. Shut up! Go to work! And show me!